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"Until now,
The Beatles story
has been simply
incomplete"
From 1970 onwards the disbanded Beatles
were at last free to follow their individual interests.
From that point on there were four separate stories...
but they were stories that would form a complex
overlapping history of quarrels and reconciliations,
personal projects and sporadic collaborations.
For the first time ever, a noted Beatles expert
has
meticulously documented the entire period of
The Beatles after the break-up.
Keith Badman has produced a dazzling
and
astonishingly detailed day-by-day chronicle of what each
of the ex-Beatles did from April 1970 onwards.
It's all here, day by day.
All the...concerts...solo releases
...known meetings between ex-Beatles
...film, TV and radio appearances
...business deals, legal battles and personal feuds
...Beatles-related births, marriages and deaths.
Starkly punctuated by the murder of John Lennon,
here is the as-it-happened story of four individuals
emerging from the straitjacket of pop music's
greatest ever success story.
And for the first time ever their solo careers are
shown to be every bit as fascinating as their
legendary decade together.
With an introduction by Miles,
author of
The Beatles: A Diary and Many Years From Now,
the authorised biography of Paul McCartney.
Fully illustrated with scores of pictures documenting
John, Paul, George and Ringo...
after the break-up. |
The Beatles After The Break-Up 1970-2000 is the first book
ever to catalogue just about everything that John, Paul, George and Ringo did after the
group disbanded...every record, every concert, every TV and radio appearance, every
interview...and much more besides. Every Beatle related event is covered, whether it be as
awesome as the tragic death of John, or as predictable as the staggering prices reached in
yet another auction of memorabilia.
Author Keith Badman has listed every known
encounter between John, Paul, George and Ringo, for whatever reason, whenever and wherever
it took place. Included are details of meetings both important and trivial, in the studio,
on stage and in their lawyers' chambers. Here are extracts from key interviews which
explain the ebbs and flows of the complex relationships between the four, and later three,
surviving Beatles.
Here is the ongoing saga of popular music's most enduring 20th
Century romance...a comprehensive history of the greatest pop group of them all.
Keith Badman is a regular contributor to The
Beatles Book magazine and Record Collector. He was a consultant on the
documentary television series The Beatles Anthology and has presented video shows
at Beatles conventions throughout Europe. Regarded as a world authority on film footage of
The Beatles and pop in general, Keith has spent years searching the globe for film of The
Beatles, both as a group and as individuals. He was a consultant on all three series of
the Channel 4 pop profile series My Generation, the BBC music history series Dancing
In The Street, and many other TV rock documentaries. Keith Badman is the co-author of
Good
Times Bad Times, a definitive diary of The Rolling Stones during the Sixties; Quite
Naturally, a biography of The Small Faces; and Empire
Made: A Guide To Everything Mod.
Author's Notes
After The Break-Up is an attempt to list chronologically
all the facts relating to the lives of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and
Ringo Starr after they ceased to be a working group in the early months of 1970. They were
still Beatles, of course, and will always remain so, but this book lists all those events,
crucial and otherwise, that occurred in their lives once they ceased to make music
together on a regular basis.
A compilation of this kind has not been attempted before and I am the
first to admit that no matter how hard I try I cannot hope to list absolutely everything
that happened in the lives of these four remarkable men from 1970 to the present day. By
far the most interesting events are those that involve a combination of two or more former
Beatles, be it recording sessions, live performances, business meetings or casual
get-togethers. Meetings between the two principal former Beatles, John and Paul, virtually
stopped at the beginning of the Seventies but became more common around the middle of the
decade, only to cease completely thereafter. I believe that every such meeting is logged
here, including a few unreported elsewhere. John's final meetings with George, Ringo and,
most importantly, Paul are confirmed here for the first time.
Naturally this book hinges upon their professional lives. I believe it
contains the most comprehensive accounts ever published of John's activities during his
final decade and Paul's adventures with Wings. For the sake of space and time, I have
included only those records released in the UK and USA, unless releases elsewhere in the
world are especially noteworthy, as in the case of Paul's Russian rock'n'roll album. I
have included every known public performance, every film appearance, every recording
session, almost every TV and radio appearance and every substantial magazine and newspaper
interview that has come to my attention in the 20 years or more that I have taken a close
interest in The Beatles. The text is therefore liberally enhanced by extracts from those
interviews that I felt contained illuminating opinions from the former Fabs.
Also in amongst these pages are details of every known court case
involving The Beatles, be they civil cases involving disputes over millions of pounds in
royalties, Paul's heavily reported drug busts or George getting yet another rap on the
knuckles for speeding. And I have included as many social occasions as I know about,
including births, marriages and deaths, as well as holidays, parties and nights out on the
town.
All the thousands of entries that I have listed herein pale into
insignificance compared with the tragic events of December 8, 1980. John Lennon's murder
remains the single most tragic event in the history of popular music.
That a book of this kind can find a publisher 37 years after the
release of their first record is a remarkable tribute to the group which John assembled
and led. Long live The Beatles!
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