Almost immediately after their return home, they face severe blow to religious and social conservatives (and the Ku Klux Klan) above comment was made by John Lennon in an interview with British journalist Maureen Cleave in March. Lennon had offered his opinion thatChristianity is dying and that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus now." Comments virtually unnoticed in Britain, the United States but when the teen fan magazine printing Agenda five months later, on the eve of the last U.S. tour, he created controversy in the "Bible belt" of South America. South Africa is also forbidden to play Beatles' records, a ban that would last until 1971. Epstein has openly criticized the agenda, said they took the words out of context Lennon, Lennon and the press conference noted: "If I say television is more popular than Jesus, I could get away with it. " Lennon said he was just referring to how others saw the Beatles, but "if you want me to apologize, if that makes you happy, then okay, I'm sorry."
Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Rubber Soul marked a big step; Revolver, released in August 1966 one week before the last tour group, scored another. Pitchfork identified as "the sound of the band grew to be confident" and "redefine what is expected of popular music." Described by Gould as "woven with a circular pattern, inversion, and inversion," Revolver with songs that are very sophisticated and expanded repertoire of musical styles ranging from classic to innovative string arrangements psychedelic rock. Leaving a group photo that has become the norm, a closed circuit designed by Klaus Voormann, a friend of the band since their days in Hamburg, "it's cool, arty, black and white collage of caricatures of the Beatles in the style pen and ink of Aubrey Beardsley linked. "The album begins with the single" Paperback Writer ", backed with" Rain. "Beatles filmed a short promotional film for the second song, described as" among the first true music video "posted on Top of the Pops and The Ed Sullivan Show.
Freed from the burden of travel, the desire to increase the band to experiment as they recorded Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, from December 1966. Emerick recalled, "The Beatles insisted that everything Sgt. Pepper We must be different. Microphone at the bottom right of the instrument brass bell and helmet into a microphone attached to the violin, we used. primitive giant oscillator to vary the speed of the instruments and voices and we had the band cut into pieces and stuck upside down and around the wrong way. "Part of" A Day in the Life "requires an orchestra of forty pieces. Nearly seven hundred hours of studio time devoted to the session. They first produce a non-double-album single "Strawberry Fields Forever" / "Penny Lane" in February 1967, Sgt. Pepperfollowed in June . The complexity of the music from files created by using technology to record only four tracks, shocked contemporary artists trying to beat the Beatles. For the Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson in the midst of personal crisis and struggled to complete the ambitious Smile, listen to "Strawberry Fields" is a blow and he soon abandoned all attempts at competition. [135] [136] Sgt. Peppermet with critical acclaim. In 2003, Rolling Stone was ranked number one among the company "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and is widely considered a masterpiece. Jonathan Gould described as
work of rich, sustained, and the abundance of genius and originality of collaboration surprisingly bold ambition to dramatically expand opportunities and raise expectations of what popular music listening experience can be recorded. Based on this perception, Sgt. Pepper became the catalyst for an explosion of mass enthusiasm for the album-rock format that will revolutionize aesthetics and economics of business documents in a way that goes far beyond previous pop explosion triggered by the phenomenon of Elvis in 1956 and the phenomenon of Beatlemania in 1963.
Sgt. Pepper was the first great pop album includes full lyrics, which is printed on the back cover. These words are intense analysis of materials; fans speculate, for example, that "the famous MK" in "being for the benefit of Mr. Kite! may in fact be a fiction writer Franz Kafka's surreal. American literary critic and English professor Richard Poirierwrote essay "Learning the Beatles," in which he observed that his students are "listening to the music group with a level of participation that he, as a professor of literature, can only envy. " Poirier identify he calls "allusive mixed" material: "It is not wise to never assume that they only do one thing or express yourself in style ... just a sort of feeling about a subject is not enough .. there is a unique feeling often leads to exist within. alternatives that seem contradictory. "McCartney said at the time," We write songs. We know what we mean by them, less than a week but others say something, and you can not deny it ... you put your own meaning in terms of its own. our song "Sgt. Pepper album cover's is also very complicated because of great interest and research in depth. The mustache worn by the band quickly became a feature of hippie style. Cultural historian Jonathan Harris describes "a parody of a military uniform with bright colors" as the conscious aspect " anti-authoritarian and anti-establishment".
On 25 June the band played their latest single, "All You Need Is Love" for viewers around the world in our world (International TV special), the first direct link to global television. It appears in the middle of the Summer of Love, the song was adopted as the anthem flower power. Two months later, this group has suffered losses to start their career in the chaos. Once introduced by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, they went to Bangor to retire from Transcendental Meditation. During the retreat, Epstein-deputy Peter Brown called to tell them that Epstein was dead. Epstein decided accidental overdose death of CHD, but it is widely rumored that the suicide note was found among his possessions. Epstein was in a fragile emotional state, stress from personal problems and circumstances to work with the Beatles. He fears that the band has not been possible to extend its management contract, will end in October, according satisfied with supervision on the business problem. He is particularly concerned Seltaeb, the company that manages the Beatles' merchandising rights in the United States. Epstein's death left the group and disorientation concern for the future. Lennon later said: "I have no misconceptions about our ability to do anything but play music and I'm afraid." He also saw the return of the death of Epstein as a sign of the beginning of the end for the group: "I know we're in trouble then ... I thought we fuckin 'got it today.
Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album and Yellow Submarine
Magical Mystery Tour "soundtrack to the television movie that will" Beatles, appears as a disk to play the six double-track extended (MOU) in early December 1967. United States, six songs have been issued to the same titled LP that also included songs by the group's new single. Allmusic said U. S. Magical Mystery Tour "is a psychedelic sound is very much in the vein Sgt. Pepper, Spacia and even in some regions (especially the sound collages of "I Am The Walrus"), and calls the five songs were destroyed between 1967 and the band singles "great, glorious, and innovative" This stipulation. record of the United States during the first three weeks of the highest initial sales of each LP Capitol, Capitol and it is a compilation album later adopted as official canon of the group. Released the day after Christmas, Magical Mystery Tour film, most often performed by McCartney, bringing the Beatles their first major negative press and England. He is considered a "blatant waste" by the Daily Express, who described it as "a great number of raw footage showing a group of people on, off, and take the bus. " The Daily Mailcalled "arrogance", while The Guardian called it "a sort of fantasy character on the coarseness and heat and stupidity of the audience" This is destiny. so serious was cut from the U.S. at the time. In January, the group filmed a cameo for the film theanimated Yellow Submarine, a fantasy with an animated version of The Beatles. This group does the involvement of others with this film is a contribution of some studio recordings that were never released. Released in June 1968, was well received for its innovative visual style and humor in addition to music. There will be seven months, however, before the album soundtrack appeared.
For some time as the Beatles, a double LP is known as the White Album for the cover feature. creative inspiration for the album came from an unexpected quarter when, with the presence of Epstein led the group switched to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as a teacher. At the ashram in Rishikesh, India, the three month "Course Guide" has become one of the most creative periods, producing a large number of songs including some of the thirty-recorded for the album [159 ] Starr. left after ten days, which equates to Butlins, McCartney and possibly bored with the proceedings and went a month later. To Lennon and Harrison, creativity turned into a question when Yanni Alexis Mardas, electronics technician called Magic Alex, suggest that the Maharishi attempted to manipulate the group. After Tuesday alleges that the Maharishi had made sexual advances to participants, persuaded Lennon and left abruptly, taking Harrison was not sure and the rest of the group around him. In his anger Lennon wrote a song refers to is called "Maharishi", but later changed to avoid lawsuits, so the "Sexy Sadie," said McCartney. "We made a mistake. We believe there is more to him than he is. "
During the recording sessions for the album, which runs from late May until mid-October 1968, the relationship between the group members have openly divisive. Starr stopped for a period, leaving McCartney to do the drums on some songs. Lennon romantic preoccupation with the avant-garde artist Yoko Ono has contributed to tensions in the band and he lost interest in co-wrote with Paul McCartney. Violated the agreement established the group they will not make partner at the studio, Lennon insisted on putting Ono, however, hated by Harrison, for all sessions. The more creative input McCartney is insulting, he began to identify the composition of it as "music grandmother," to reject "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" as "Grand mother dirt. "Given the White Album sessions, Lennon odd summing-up shortcut History Group at the time, said," It's like if you took all the songs on it and make all mine and all of Paul ... just me and the support group, Paul and support groups, and I liked it and then we broke .. "McCartney also recalled that the meeting marked the beginning of a break, saying: "Until then, this world of problems, but we have not" always "the best thing about the Beatles." Published in November, the White Album "Apple Records released the band's first album. The new label is a subsidiary of Apple Corps, which was formed by a group of them back from India, meets Epstein plans to create corporate structure effective tax. Attracted a record increase of more than two million orders, sold nearly four million copies in the United States to a little over a month, and the tracks that dominate Playlists U.S. radio station. Despite its popularity, it did not receive flattering comments from that time. By Jonathan Gould
critical response ... varied from a mixture of the apartment. Unlike Sgt. Pepper, who helped build the entire genre of literacy rock critics, it is the White Album inspired writings critical of any document. Even the most sympathetic reviews ... obviously do not know what to do with this track in the form of bestowal. Newsweek Hubert Saal, citing the high proportion of parody, accusing the group get their tongues caught in their cheeks.
Critical public opinion finally turned in favor of the White Album and in 2003, Rolling Stoneranked the tenth greatest album of all time. Pitchfork described it as "full of large and spacious, with ideas, but also with indulgence, and a table full of very different matter ... the failure of the company are as important to its character as a victory. "Allmusic observes:" Clearly, two of the Beatles' main track power is no longer on the same page, but not more than George and Ringo "but" Lennon changed in two of the best ballads, "songs of Paul McCartney were" amazing, "Harrison is deemed to have become" a composer who deserves wider exposure "and the composition Starr is" fun. "
Now, the interest of the Beatles song has taken a serious turn. When John Lennon song "Revolution" was released as a single in August before the White Album, the message seems clear: "free your mind" and "Count on me" any discussion on the damage as a means to an end in a year marked by student protests from Warsaw to Paris to Chicago, the response of the radical left spicy. However, the White Album version of the song, "Revolution 1", add additional words, "count on me ... in ", which implies a change of heart since the single's release. This chronology is in fact the registered version to the other side of the first ambivalent on the album, but some felt that the Beatles are saying that political violence can indeed be justified.
The Yellow Submarine LP finally appeared in January 1969. contains only four new songs and the title track (previously released on Revolver), "All You Need Is Love" (previously released as singles and on the U.S. Magical Mystery Tour LP) and seven instrumental pieces composed by Martin. Due to the lack of new Beatles 'music', the album shows Allmusic may be "non-essential", but Harrison "It's All Too Much," "glittering jewel ... the new songs in the swirling Mellotron, of more than life percussion, and waves pairs virtuoso guitar feedback ... excursion into psychedelia trouble otherwise. "
Although Let It Be is the release of the band latest album, mostly recorded before Abbey Road. Originally titled Get Back, Let It Be came from Martin attributes the idea of Paul McCartney: preparing new material and "do it before the public for the first time on CD and in the movie In other terms create a new live album Materials, which had never been done before.. "In the case of many studio album content coming from work, the number of captured on film by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Martin said the exercises and recording for the project, which is much occupied in January 1969, was "not at all happy experience ... There was a time when relations between the Beatles at their lowest level .." Exacerbated by McCartney and Lennon, Harrison stepped down during the week. He returned with keyboardist Billy Preston, who participated in the last ten days of the session and credited to "Get Back" single, the only other musician to receive such recognition in the official records of the Beatles. Group members reached an impasse over the location of the concert, has declined from a concept of a ship at sea, the desert of Tunisia and the Colosseum. Ultimately, the final performance of The Beatles, accompanied by Preston, filmed on the roof of the Apple Corps building at 3 Savile Row, London, January 30, 1969.
Engineer Glyn Johns worked for months assembling the various versions of the album Get Back, while the group turned to other problems. Conflicts arise concerning the appointment of financial advisors, the need became clear that without Epstein to manage the business. Lennon, Harrison and Starr liked Allen Klein, who has negotiated contracts for the Rolling Stones and other British bands during the British Invasion. McCartney wants John Eastman, brother of Linda Eastman, who married McCartney March 12 (eight days before Lennon and Ono were married). Agreement could be reached so that both are designated, but a new conflict ensued and the financial opportunity is lost.
Martin was surprised when McCartney was contacted and asked him to produce another album, like "Get Back" sessions were "bad experience" and he "thought it was the end of the road for us all .. . these are nice people to ourselves and to others. "Recording Session for Abbey Road began in late February. Lennon Martin rejected the proposed format of" continuous movement piece of music ", and want your own songs McCartney and occupy separate sides of the album. Format ultimately, with individual songs composed in the first and second are largely made up of a mixture, McCartney proposed a compromise. On July 4, while working on this album is in progress, the first single by a solo Beatle appears: Lennon "Give Peace a Chance," credited to the Plastic Ono Band. Regulation Abbey Road song "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" on August 20, 1969 was the last time all four Beatles were together in the same studio. Lennon announced his departure for the group on September 20, but agreed that no public announcement will be made until a number of legal issues resolved.
Released six days after the declaration of Lennon, Abbey Road has sold four million copies in two months and head of the British charts for eleven weeks. His second title, that "something" ballad, also published as single song by Harrison's first and only appear as an A side of the Beatles. Abbey Road received mixed reviews, although medley met a general success. Allmusic considers it "appropriate swan song for the group" contains "some of the greatest harmonies to be heard on any rock record" MacDonald has called "erratic and often hollow". "If it was not entry McCartney as designers ... Abbey Road Medley Long will pretend lack of unity and coherence that made him look better. "Martin was selected as a favorite of all the band's albums, Lennon said" competent "but" life is in it, "said:" Maxwell's Silver Hammer "" more music Paul grandmother "sound engineer Geoff Emerick noted. studio valve replacement with a mixer transistor produce a less punchy, leaving a group frustrated with a light tone and lack of impact.
For the rest unfinished album Get Back, Beatles news "songs, Harrison's" I Me Mine "was recorded January 3, 1970. Lennon, Denmark at the time, did not participate. To complete the album, now renamed Let It Be, Get Back in March Klein provides session tapes for the American producer Phil Spector. Known as the wall of sound approach, Spector has recently produced a solo John Lennon "Instant Karma!" In addition to Get Back remix material, Spector edition, spliced and several overdubbed recordings that have been designed as "life." McCartney was not satisfied with the treatment of the material Spector and especially not satisfied with the producer orchestrated "The Long and Winding Road" involving the choir and ensemble of thirty-four instrumental part. He failed attempt to stop the release of Spector's version. McCartney announced his departure from April 10, a week before the first album, self solo title. pre-publication copies of documents, including release of Paul McCartney with self-written interview explaining the end of his involvement with the Beatles and his hopes for the future.
May 8, Spector produced Let It Be was released. Attached single is "The Long and Winding Road", the last group, was published in the United States but not Britain. Let It Be documentary was followed later in the month, next year Awardceremony Academy, will win the Oscar for best original music [189] The Sunday Telegraph called it "a very bad movie and feel .. . to break a part of this family convince geometrically perfect, brothers and sisters for all ages at all apparently .. "More than one reviewer noted that some of the songs Let It Be sounds better in this film of the album. Noting that the Let It Be is the "only Beatles album to negative events, even hostile reviews, Allmusic described it as" all underestimated ... McCartney in particular offers several gems: the gospel -ish "Let It Be", which have more words: .. "Get Back", one of his hardest rockers and melody of "The Long Winding Road and were destroyed by clumsy dubbing Spector "McCartney has filed a lawsuit to dissolve the Beatles December 31, 1970 legal dispute continues long after the band breaks, and the dissolution of the corporation does not take effect until 1975.
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