Below I was talking about the book that speculates about the Beatles having remained together and never breaking up. I felt that a lot of people could write a book like this because it's just your theories anyway. So, I thought I'd try my hand at it. Here is a brief story I came up with. I hope someone out there enjoys reading it.
Return of the Beatles. (by loco mo)
The Beatles had broken up and it seemed it would be permanent. As much as fans hoped they’d get back together, an overall feeling of pessimism tended to overshadow that hope.
Many believed that as long as John remained with Yoko the Beatles could never re-band.
In this imaginary history, however, something strange and unexpected happened. Yoko disappeared.
That’s right. She just disappeared. At first, John thought she had left him or just went away for a while in order to have some distance from him. Their relationship had seen some difficult times so a temporary separation would not seem too unusual.
But time passed, weeks and then months and no word from Yoko. At a point, John alerted law enforcement and the search was on for Yoko. Had she been abducted by a crazed fan who blamed her for breaking up the Beatles? Did she just decide to go somewhere and live an anonymous life apart from the unrelenting and oftentimes negative celebrity spotlight?
There were no notes or messages left for John. There were no clues. John was distraught. Some people even speculated that John had done her in during a fight. He had a somewhat turbulent and violent period in his life when he was younger. Was he capable doing this and then covering it up somehow by paying accomplices to keep the crime a secret?
After trying to avoid publicizing Yoko’s disappearance for some time, word got out and everyone was talking about Yoko being missing. Many fans who didn’t like Yoko nevertheless sympathized with John and offered notes of empathy and letters of support. No one wished her ill in terms like this. Fans really just wanted the Beatles back together. Now, many were saying that they just wanted John to be happy and if that meant Yoko’s return in his life, then so be it.
But more time went by and the missing Yoko became a cryptic mystery which many people the world over were trying to solve. It was a fascinating puzzle because it didn’t make much sense that Yoko would have chosen to remove herself from the public eye. Because of this, most speculators envisioned foul play as the cause. Maybe a crazed fan believed that if he got rid of Yoko, the Beatles would get back together. That was a very popular theory.
Even so, John held out hope. He offered a reward to anyone who could help unravel her whereabouts or lack of whereabouts (assuming the worst case scenario of a terminated life).
But John grew increasingly gloomy as time passed by and he began to feel very alone. It was during this time that John thought about his stint as a Beatle. He began to remember the affinity they shared together. They were family to him at one time, not just band mates. John was starting to miss what they used to have together.
John felt like giving up on everything. He felt like his life was empty without Yoko. He was so attached to her. There was no one to take her place and he wasn’t looking for anyone to do that.
But John kept thinking about the Beatles and wondered if it would help if he and they got together and sang a few songs. So, John got on the phone. “Hey, Paul, this is John.”
Months afterward, a rumor was spreading wildly that the Beatles had gotten together and recorded some new songs. Maybe they recorded an album. And Yoko was still missing.
To be continued maybe.