Give
Peace a Chance
-released 1970
Hot As Sun
-released November 1970
The Black
Album
- released December 1970
Buy the Farm
-released August 1971
With The Quarrymen Quartet
-unreleased
Too Many Fifth
Beatles
- released late 1971
Political
Nonsense
-released October 1972
Meat City
-released July 1973
Live and Let
Die
-released December 1973
Beatles On The Run
-released July 1974
Junior's Farm
-released January 1975
The Grey Album
-released October 1975
Rock and Roll
Vol. II
-released July 1976
Let'em In
-released December 1976
Here Comes
the Moon
-released May 1979
Live in the 70's
-released July
1981
All Those Years
Ago
-released July 1982
Men In Suits
-released July 1988
Free As A Bird
-released October 1997
Beatles Solo
One
-released July 2001
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Glyn
Johns worked like a dog from April to December piecing together
whatever he could from the EMI
vaults, The White Album demos/sessions and other
bits from the Lady Madonna and Abbey Road
sessions. Paul trying to match John's promise of minimum solo
overlap lent both sides of his latest single since they were
not slated for an album, and George lent some unreleased tunes
and alternate takes. Only Ringo, who was strapped for lack
of material, sent previously released songs from Sentimental
Journey plus an outtake from the Beaucoup of Blues
sessions. The resulting collage, know as The Black Album,
would truly be considered as the last “real” Beatles'
album since most of the cuts were recorded as a group. The
album paralled both The White Album and Abbey
Road featuring alternate versions, demos, and "new"
songs. The chaotic Mary Jane segwayed into Ringo’s
George Martin produced Dream, much in the same way
as Revolution #9 relayed surrealistically into Goodnight.
Then when you think it is all
over, much in the way Her Majesty “interrupted”
The End (literally), this time the Beatles end by saying Goodbye…well
the first of many goodbyes. Glyn Johns edited Paul’s
acoustic ditty to remove the female gender tone of the Mary
Hopkins demo. The Beatles by now had all put out their solo
efforts and were hinting in public that the band as the world
knew it no longer existed.
Even though it was released too late for the
Christmas rush, the Black Album stayed number one
worldwide for months, outselling the solo efforts. The fans
loved the rawness the most and there was still a faint hope
for the survival of the group. Production was minimal, but
it worked.
The First Single: Come and Get It:
During this period, there was much argument
over releasing a single, since it was really solo product.
The stuff out of the Beatle vaults was just not single material,
although What’s The News Mary Jane was nearly
released as an “A” side.
Since Paul had recorded Come and Get It
as an official Beatle session (although he was the only musician
on it), and was already a proven hit, it was chosen as the
“A” side to coincide with the release of Black.
The “B” side was a similar sounding Remember,
which had originated as a Beatle jam at the end of Something,
and featured Ringo on drums. To include George in the mix,
he reluctantly agreed to overdub guitars on Come and Get
It. He couldn’t make the scheduled session, and
the 45 sleeve had already been printed up, with credit to
George on lead guitar, but it was pressed without his input
to meet deadlines. The single barely cracked the top ten in
the US, Canada and the UK, probably because it sounded so
close to the Badfinger version. A Harrison lead guitar would
have made it different, and probably would have hit #1.
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