{"id":2679,"date":"2010-02-10T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2010-02-10T12:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T17:00:22","slug":"on-the-beatles-one-more-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2679","title":{"rendered":"On The Beatles: One More Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/graphics\/beatles-running.jpg\" alt=\"It's been a hard day's night, and I've been been working like a dog\" height=\"214\" border=\"0\" \/>Forty years ago, it was &#8220;the break-up heard &#8217;round the world.&#8221; The Beatles, the world&#8217;s greatest rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll band, the voice of a generation, were no more. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr &mdash; they appeared on the scene, as if from nowhere in February 1964 on <i>The Ed Sullivan Show<\/i>, they conquered &#8220;the toppermost of the poppermost&#8221; with albums such as <i>Revolver<\/i> and <i>Sgt Pepper<\/i>, they gave birth to baroque rock and psychedelia, and they bowed out with the sublimely brilliant <i>Abbey Road<\/i> in August 1969.<\/p>\n<p>But what if it didn&#8217;t happen that way?  What if <i>Abbey Road<\/i> was not the swansong for the four loveable lads from Liverpool?  This Thursday, February 11, <a href=\"http:\/\/wamu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WAMU<\/a>, the public radio station in Washington, DC, asks the question &mdash; if the Beatles had made another album, what would it have been? &mdash; with their documentary, <i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/wamu.org\/programs\/the_beatles_one_more_album\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Beatles: One More Album<\/a><\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Three Beatles experts &mdash; Peter Carlin, the author of <i>Paul McCartney: A Life<\/i>; Tim Riley, the author of <i>Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album by Album, Song by Song<\/i>; and Richie Unterberger, the author of <i>The Unreleased Beatles<\/i> &mdash; explore the musical legacy of the Beatles and their early solo careers to assemble what a 1970 or 1971 Beatles album might have been. Many ideas have been put forth &mdash; my own &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1509\">Hot As Sun<\/a>,&#8221; <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/music\/the-beatles\/6163934\/The-Beatles-lost-album-revealed.html\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/i>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/liverpool\/content\/articles\/2005\/11\/10\/beatles_greatestalbumnevermade_feature.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>, science-fiction author <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Twelfth_Album\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Baxter<\/a>, even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN0927684020070310\" target=\"_blank\">Beatles tribute band The Fab Faux<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&#038;friendId=51941707&#038;blogId=239615237\" target=\"_blank\">track list here<\/a>) &mdash; and <i>The Beatles: One More Album<\/i> hopes to write the definitive word on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Listeners in the Washington, DC metro region can listen on WAMU at 88.5 FM, Thursday, February 11th at 9 o&#8217;clock p.m. or Sunday, February 14th at 6 o&#8217;clock a.m. The program can also be heard through WAMU&#8217;s audio stream <a href=\"http:\/\/wamu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">through their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, I shall be listening. \ud83d\ude42  I&#8217;m even sure I&#8217;ll disagree with everything they have to say. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago, it was &#8220;the break-up heard &#8217;round the world.&#8221; The Beatles, the world&#8217;s greatest rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll band, the voice of a generation, were no more. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr &mdash; they appeared on the scene, as if from nowhere in February 1964 on The Ed Sullivan Show, they conquered<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2679\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On The Beatles: One More Album&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4097],"tags":[666,733,98],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beatles","tag-abbey-road","tag-hot-as-sun","tag-the-beatles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}