{"id":489983,"date":"2019-09-11T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=882988"},"modified":"2019-09-11T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:32:00","slug":"unearthed-audio-reveals-beatles-discussed-abbey-road-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/unearthed-audio-reveals-beatles-discussed-abbey-road-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Unearthed Audio Reveals Beatles Discussed \u2018Abbey Road\u2019 Follow-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a newly unearthed recording from 1969, the Beatles<\/a>\u2019 principal songwriters discuss tentative plans for a follow-up to their final LP Abbey Road<\/a><\/em>, a revelation that shifts the canonical narrative of that album\u2019s recording sessions and the band\u2019s eventual break-up.<\/span><\/p>\n

The tape \u2014 which dates back to September 8th, 1969, two weeks before Abbey Road<\/em>\u2018s release \u2014 features a contentious conversation between John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison at Apple headquarters in London\u2019s Savile Row. With Ringo Starr hospitalized and undergoing tests for intestinal issues, his bandmates talk about recording another album and a potential single for the Christmas market.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRingo, you can\u2019t be here, but this is so you can hear what we\u2019re discussing,\u201d Lennon says in the audio, which Beatles author-historian Mark Lewisohn played for The Guardian<\/em><\/a>. The singer proposes that each principal songwriter \u2014 Lennon, McCartney and Harrison \u2014 contribute four songs apiece to their next record, with Starr allotted two \u201cif he wants them.\u201d He also references the \u201cLennon and McCartney myth,\u201d likely arguing the pair should retire their longtime on-paper partnership and credit their own songs individually.<\/span><\/p>\n

In response, McCartney challenges the idea that Harrison carries equal songwriting weight. \u201cI thought until this album that George\u2019s songs weren\u2019t that good,\u201d he says on the recording. Harrison \u2014 who contributed two of his most iconic tracks, \u201cSomething\u201d and \u201cHere Comes the Sun,\u201d to Abbey Road<\/em> \u2014 fires back, \u201cThat\u2019s a matter of taste. All down the line, people have liked my songs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Lennon notes that no one else in the band \u201cdug\u201d McCartney\u2019s quirky Abbey Road<\/em> track \u201cMaxwell\u2019s Silver Hammer\u201d and argues that his bandmate should donate material in a similar vein to outside performers, including the Welsh folk artist Mary Hopkin. McCartney maintains that he recorded the song \u201cbecause [he] liked it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Lewisohn \u2014 who has written multiple Beatles books, including the acclaimed 1988 tome The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years<\/em> \u2014 utilizes the audio in his upcoming stage show Hornsey Road<\/em>, which traces the band\u2019s final run using tape, film, photographs, memorabilia and new audio mixes.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the author told The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, the recording bucks the traditional view that the Beatles recorded Abbey Road<\/em> as their resilient swan-song after the notoriously fraught Let It Be<\/em> sessions. \u201cIt\u2019s a revelation,\u201d he said. \u201cThe books have always told us that they knew Abbey Road<\/em> was their last album and they wanted to go out on an artistic high. But no \u2013 they\u2019re discussing the next album. And you think that John is the one who wanted to break them up, but when you hear this, he isn\u2019t. Doesn\u2019t that rewrite pretty much everything we thought we knew?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A Super Deluxe 50th anniversary Abbey Road<\/em> reissue<\/a> featuring unreleased takes and demos is out September 27th via Apple Corps Ltd.\/Capitol\/UMe.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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