30 March 2025
By the time (August 1966) THE BEATLES decided to quit touring their studio work was already audacious in its innovations. It brought us the glorious Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and the profoundly original self-titled White Album. On the other,
it slowed their output down, and served to remind them how much they relished playing live – they just needed to find a new way to do it.
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Sometimes, even The Beatles’ hands were forced. As they looked forward to a period of relative relaxation in the wake of Sgt. Pepper, they were still committed to provide new music for not one, but two film projects which would extend some of the Pepper magic. Even if it spread them thin, both Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine showed what may be the group’s absolutely unique ability: to write outstanding new music against the most alarming of deadlines.
The Fab Four evolved as individuals to the point where the group couldn’t no longer comfortably contain them. It’s a testament to their later-period recordings that they still could summon breathtaking originality even when there’s only two of them in the room – as with The Ballad Of John And Yoko – or, as with their final Christmas recordings – when there are none at all.
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