Recently I’ve seen the traffic spike on some of my Beatles writings, specifically on alt-history Beatles, so I’m going to assemble a guide to things I written on the subject over the years.<\/p>\n
Post-Abbey Road<\/i> Albums<\/b><\/p>\n
It’s an interesting game to imagine what the Beatles might’ve done had they soldiered on into 1970. There’s interesting material on their debut solo albums, they worked together (but not as a foursome) in various capacities in 1970, so it’s not impossible that they could have made one more album. It’s just a question of picking the right tracks and sequencing them.<\/p>\n
I took a shot at it myself with an “album” I called “Hot As Sun<\/a>,” which, if I don’t say so myself, is damn near perfect. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I had later thoughts<\/a> on “Hot as Sun,” but they’re not essential.<\/p>\n Others have done so, too. Sometimes, I’d weigh in with my thoughts as to whether or not they worked.<\/p>\n Stephen Baxter, the sci-fi novelist, did, creating an album he called “God<\/a>.” (Thoughts on Baxter’s short story here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Spencer Leigh made on he called “Finishing School<\/a>” in an article for BBC Radio Merseyside. I wasn’t a fan of this one, sorry.<\/p>\n We can’t forget Ethan Hawke’s “The Black Album<\/a>,” a playlist he created for his daughter which was incorporated into the film Boyhood<\/i>.<\/p>\n There was even a program on WAMU, “One More Album<\/a>,” in which a group of Beatles experts discussed the subject.<\/p>\n Suffice it to say, this is a game people have played — and will play for years to come.<\/p>\n Alternate Beatles Albums<\/b><\/p>\n The Beatles considered making a Lord of the Rings<\/i> film. I pondered what the film and soundtrack album<\/a> would have been like.<\/p>\n What if The Beatles<\/i>, commonly known as the White Album, wasn’t a double album? Here’s my edit<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio play, Sorry, Boys, You Failed the Audition<\/i>, which looks at a world where they failed to secure a recording contract with EMI. My thoughts here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mark Shipper wrote a fictitious, comedic biography of the Beatles and their reunion in his 1970s novel Paperback Writer<\/i>, and I reviewed that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n This list of links isn’t comprehensive — I’ve written much more on the Beatles than this — but it covers as much of my alternate-Beatles material as I can remember penning over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently I’ve seen the traffic spike on some of my Beatles writings, specifically on alt-history Beatles, so I’m going to assemble a guide to things I written on the subject over the years. Post-Abbey Road Albums It’s an interesting game to imagine what the Beatles might’ve done had they soldiered on into 1970. There’s interestingContinue reading “Alternate Beatles”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[380,60,77,96,132,382,98],"class_list":["post-29842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-alternate-history","tag-george-harrison","tag-john-lennon","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-ringo-starr","tag-stephen-baxter","tag-the-beatles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29842","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=29842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}