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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By
late 1973/early 1974 all four Beatles were in sync with each
other to the point of attempting more of a
group effort, but unfortunately logistics and commitments
kept them from being in the same room at the same time. Paul
recorded sessions in Africa with Wings for his Band on
the Run album before returning to London and later LA
to help piece together the next Beatle collection. Paul, John
and George worked on Ringo’s tracks, while John and
George imported other musicians on their tracks. Together
they compiled Beatles on the Run parodying Paul’s
own success with Band on the Run. They even discussed
doing a full Beatles version of Band on the Run,
but couldn’t put the session together.
Paul was amazed that John had
enough interest to even consider collaborating on a McCartney
tune and wrote the Lennon influenced Let Me Roll It.
During this period of cooperation, the two recorded together
in LA with Harry Nilsson, Stevie Wonder and others on what
was supposed to evolve into the Beatles Rock-n-Roll
series. Whereas the compilation Beatles On the Run
topped the charts worldwide, the rock-n-roll sessions were
shelved for a period as they were basically more unlistenable
than even the Get Back jams.
I Am the Greatest featuring Ringo,
John and George was released as a Beatle single, and to keep
Paul in the mix, the B side was Six O' Clock with
Paul and Ringo sharing lead vocals. The song cracked
the top ten, but like Come and Get It before, people
sensed they weren’t quite getting 100%.
Again, George, John and Ringo discussed reforming
the group with Billy Preston and Klass Voorman on the music
end and Harry Nilsson on the vocal end. Paul was in full steam
with Wings, and would only entertain perhaps a studio album
and a concert or two.
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