Topic: Their Downfall (Read 15274 times)

Revolution_9 · « **on:** December 20, 2004, 02:54:39 PM »

Three things perpetuated the downfall of the Beatles:

Yoko One
Apple Corps
The Get Back/Let It Be Project

Revolution_9 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 20, 2004, 02:57:21 PM »

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Yoko One

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"I may appear to be imperfect..." - Harrison, Old Brown Shoe

Mairi · « **Reply #2 on:** December 20, 2004, 04:05:03 PM »

No, I think it was Brian's death that started it all.

Billy Shears · « **Reply #3 on:** December 20, 2004, 04:08:10 PM »

candlestick park, san fransisco, 1966....i think after this last concert....the fun of being a band ended...it became like a job for them

Indica · « **Reply #4 on:** December 20, 2004, 05:32:48 PM »

Well, if its about the touring, then i reckon it started feeling like a chore way before.

andaludia · « **Reply #5 on:** December 20, 2004, 05:53:09 PM »

maybe it was all those things and others.maybe they had just had enough of it all.i mean it must have been crazy what they went through.

Frightwolf · « **Reply #6 on:** December 20, 2004, 06:41:25 PM »

Well, the touring started to get tedious, but once they got in the studio, they were free to explore and do anythign they wanted to do.

Brian's death did start it because Lennon started to become a little upset and thought Paul was trying to take over. 1969 was really when a nosedive started.

GroovinUpSlowly · « **Reply #7 on:** December 20, 2004, 07:48:06 PM »

Yeah I think it was a little of everything and more, the tention built up over all the years, I think it was a lot of Yoko and Paul, and them all just getting older, no one's fault really, it had to end sometime.

Mairi · « **Reply #8 on:** December 20, 2004, 07:53:23 PM »

It wasn't Paul, if anything he held the group togther for a while.

ewomack · « **Reply #9 on:** December 21, 2004, 01:01:24 AM »

With all due respect to two of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century, I think the downfall was simply ego. Paul and John developed into 2 very solid indef**itable egos that simply couldn't integrate. I think that's still evident in McCartney's recent attempts to remove the "Lennon/McCartney" credits on the songs. The once healthy competition turned sickly sometime in the late sixties. They even stopped playing together on each other's tracks by the time of "The White Album". Some of this can be seen in the "Let It Be" movie: they're all off doing their own things and when playing together they don't seem to be connecting as people, only as musicians. One thing's for sure, it's good it ended when it did. They didn't stay together too long, like some bands who just rust away while grapsing onto nothing. Too bad the breakup was so nasty, but this also points to ego as the main problem. It became like a bad marriage.

Ed Womack

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BBeatlesFan · « **Reply #10 on:** December 21, 2004, 01:14:44 AM »

i'm sure they knew it would end they just proably wanted to end it when they were ahead of fate. I am sure if they would have stayed together the songs would have become worst and all flops and they wanted to end ahead of the game.

SieLiebtDich · « **Reply #11 on:** December 21, 2004, 04:27:02 AM »

[quote by=Mairi link=Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1103554479,s=2 date=1103558703]No, I think it was Brian's death that started it all.[/quote]

I think so too :-/

Lucy In The Sky · « **Reply #12 on:** December 21, 2004, 04:36:56 AM »

[quote by=Mairi link=Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1103554479,s=2 date=1103558703]No, I think it was Brian's death that started it all.[/quote]

My thoughts too.

Will Campbell · « **Reply #13 on:** December 21, 2004, 07:35:05 AM »

I'd like to chuck my 2 cents in - listen to Beatles For Sale.

pc31 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 21, 2004, 11:23:50 AM »

well cosidering john wanted to quit around help or even a bit b4,i would have to agree with willie.the whole situation of being in a room,a bus,a room,a car,another bus,another room.......ectera.that alone would not make fame seem glamerous at all.
i feel they got too serious and no longer could laugh at themselves.

pc31 · « **Reply #15 on:** December 21, 2004, 11:26:44 AM »

An Apple Beatle · « **Reply #16 on:** December 21, 2004, 05:10:20 PM »

Time!

Mairi · « **Reply #17 on:** December 21, 2004, 09:17:21 PM »

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It was Yoko, it was Linda

Oh no let's not bring their wives into it... they had nothing to do with it. Yoko and Linda simply served as compainions to the different people John and Paul had become, rather than when John and Paul were each other's best friends.

Indica · « **Reply #18 on:** December 21, 2004, 10:05:15 PM »

Yeah, Blaming the Wives is just the masculine 'Angel in the House' stereotype emerging.
They might of distorted the relationship boundaries between men..but Look at Cynthia and Pattie etc..The Beatles never broke then.

Lucy In The Sky · « **Reply #19 on:** December 21, 2004, 10:57:37 PM »

It was going to end anyway.

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