A long time ago, after the break-up, John Lennon said that if you want more Beatles albums, all you'd have to do is take all their solo records and take 2 or 3 tracks from each member and put them together into a single album. Has anyone else ever bothered to do that?
A slightly less longer time ago, I decided to try to do that, at least on paper. So, I'd take one song, in the order they were released, and build entire new albums out of them all (I only got up to about the early `80's, though. Now that I've got a copy of "The Family Way", I'll have to reconstruct the list so, now, Paul would go BEFORE George instead of after John.
I would also be inclined to include all of Yoko's stuff (while John was still alive) because he DID play on almost all of it. (I think the track, "Fly" was the only thing she did solo.) Same goes for Linda's "solo" tracks because Paul was on them. Besides, she's only got 2 or 3.
I'm in the middle of another project but, as soon as I'm done with it (very possibly tonight), I might start on actually compiling that to see how it'd turn out. Should be interesting! At least through the `70's. I'd guess that, at the end, it'd get kinda boring: one Ringo, one Paul, one Ringo, one Paul.... Then, as Ringo's output was nowhere near as big as Paul's, the last few hours would JUST be Paul!!
Check out the Everyday Chemistry "album" online...
Not quite I had in mind.
This would be the first two albums (without "The Family Way").
ALBUM 1
MICROBES 3:39
TWO VIRGINS 1-5 14:13
SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY 3:25
THE LOVELY LINDA :43
RED LADY TOO 1:54__
TWO VIRGINS 6-10 15:11
NIGHT AND DAY 2:24
THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING 2:37
TABLA AND PAKAVAJ 1:04
SIDE ONE TIME 23:54
SIDE TWO TIME 21:16
TOTAL TIME 45:10
ALBUM 2
CAMBRIDGE 1969 26:30__
WHISPERING GRASS (DON'T TELL THE TREES) 2:35
VALENTINE DAY 1:40
IN THE PARK 4:05
NO BED FOR BEATLE JOHN 4:50
BYE BYE BLACKBIRD 2:10
EVERY NIGHT 2:29
DRILLING A HOME 3:07
BABY'S HEARTBEAT 5:10
SIDE ONE TIME 26:30
SIDE TWO TIME 26:06
TOTAL TIME 52:36
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I think I was reading / seeing on line (or is it in this months record collector) something about a solo Paul McCartney recordings in the 1960s that never got release, dont know if it does exist. Of Course in the 1970s members would sometimes play on others releases, as well as collaborating with other artists in the same way as the Beatles had brought in the odd uncredited and credited (such as Billy Paul) artists in there recordings as well as the production element. This was not often done, I suspect not because they did not want to work together as such, but a deliberate decision to (a) make their own musical styles driving forward, and (b) to ensure fans DID NOT have expecations of a re-formation of the foursome, (and probably demand the oldies). In other words they deliberately did not go down the chicken in a basket caberate circuit of other 60s bands, nor the re-recording of material with new line ups under old names to get new royalties for the latest label one or more members had signed to. Pity in a way, Beatles doing Disco might have been interesting.
Paul wanted to prove he could have success with a group of relative unknown performers working with him in a new group with new material . Ringo went back on later performing to give equal relevance to his work in Rory Storme and the Hurricances, George had the happiness with working with other 60s and 70s greats before his early death. John seemed to bounce off his influence with Yoko again argueable robbed of further new material that would have flowed around his brain.
I think I was reading / seeing on line (or is it in this months record collector) something about a solo Paul McCartney recordings in the 1960s that never got release, dont know if it does exist. Of Course in the 1970s members would sometimes play on others releases, as well as collaborating with other artists in the same way as the Beatles had brought in the odd uncredited and credited (such as Billy Paul) artists in there recordings as well as the production element. This was not often done, I suspect not because they did not want to work together as such, but a deliberate decision to (a) make their own musical styles driving forward, and (b) to ensure fans DID NOT have expecations of a re-formation of the foursome, (and probably demand the oldies). In other words they deliberately did not go down the chicken in a basket caberate circuit of other 60s bands, nor the re-recording of material with new line ups under old names to get new royalties for the latest label one or more members had signed to. Pity in a way, Beatles doing Disco might have been interesting.
Paul wanted to prove he could have success with a group of relative unknown performers working with him in a new group with new material . Ringo went back on later performing to give equal relevance to his work in Rory Storme and the Hurricances, George had the happiness with working with other 60s and 70s greats before his early death. John seemed to bounce off his influence with Yoko again argueable robbed of further new material that would have flowed around his brain.
Billy Paul?? You mean Billy Preston?
Disco Beatles would've sucked just like any other disco records. apparently, the fad didn't phase them at all because all 4 were making solo records during those years and not a single one was disco (except maybe a couple of Paul's early `80's records. John said he LOVED disco but never did any.).