50 years ago today, PAUL McCARTNEY (second from left), left The Beatles and announced that his first SOLO album would be coming out the following week. This may not have been the final LEGAL dissolution of the group, but it was the PRACTICAL death of The Beatles. We must remember that JOHN LENNON (third from left) was already recording with his new wife and others two years PRIOR to April 10th, 1970. And McCartney, despite rumors that he was DEAD (Lol), held the group together through their final, triumphant recording, "Abbey Road," in 1969.
In short, when McCARTNEY left, what was left of these Englishmen as a group....broke up.
I, personally was NOT "broken up" because the group broke up. You see, I didn't become a Beatles' FAN until AFTER April of 1970.
Oh yeah, when they first came to the States in 1964, I certainly knew who they WERE....that's me (age 9) and my sister MaryAnn with "Beatles' wigs" on, imitating them (May '64.)
I heard most Beatles songs on the radio the next five years ('64-'69) yet I never recall buying one of their RECORDS. But when they broke up?? That was different....I bought their "Let it Be" and "Hey Jude" compilation albums, as well as ALL of their SOLO albums which came out after the breakup. The first one I really, REALLY liked was George Harrison's "All Things must Pass," in late 1970. It was a TRIPLE album as George had a backlog of material he'd written when in The Beatles that never made it to their recordings (because Lennon-McCartney songs dominated.)
50 years later, Beatles music is STILL incredibly popular....Harrison and Lennon are dead but RINGO STARR and McCartney are still alive and recording. Yet one day, when Jesus returns, there will be NO MORE Beatles' music and there certainly won't be any in HEAVEN. So remember...."All Things Must Pass."
50 years ago was the PRACTICAL end of The Beatles. One day, there will be an ETERNAL end.
And if these men don't make it to Heaven, what they've done HERE means very, very little.
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