Director Mark Waters (500 Days of Summer, Mean Girls) has already lined up his next project: Get Back, a comedy about two obsessed Beatles fans who travel back in time to stop John Lennon from meeting Yoko Ono, thereby (theoretically) preventing the rock super-group from ever breaking up.Of course, they'll prolly fuck it up by having Will Ferrell in it, but I'm holding out hope they won't.
There's an entire Wikipedia page devoted to the break-up, with several reasons that led to it listed:
1 Brian Epstein's deathI don't really see how #8 could be considered as LEADING to the breakup; John or Paul leaving the band to me would just constitute a breakup. Smoking for 50 years may LEAD to death, but actually dying does not.
2 George Harrison's emergence as a songwriter
3 Difficulty in collaboration
4 Yoko Ono
5 The Beatles double album
6 The Twickenham and Apple studio recording sessions
7 Business quagmire: Allen Klein, Lee Eastman and ATV-Northern Songs
8 Departures
8.1 John Lennon's departure
8.2 McCartney's departure
Anyways, as was mentioned BACK IN APRIL, it's way better they went out as the Jim Brown of music: on top. Otherwise, the only way to go woulda been down:
Steve Turner, author of “A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song,” agreed: “You can look at some of the songs they wrote during the Beatles that got left over and put on solo albums — but whether you put all those together and it would have made a follow up to ‘Abbey Road,’ I don’t know. They seemed to have reached their limit."
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Well said big fella.
I would vote all of the above, with the exception of #8.
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