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Later Beatles: Musical Revolution

McCartney - "We're so well established that we can bring our fans with us and stretch the limits of pop."

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (6/1/67)

• the classic rock album
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / With a Little Help From My Friends
  • Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
  • Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
  • Within You, Without You
  • When I'm Sixty Four
  • A Day in the Life
• "concept album" - how so?
  • Lennon says that the album "doesn't go anywhere.... ALL of my contributions have absolutely nothing to do with this idea of Sgt. Pepper and his band ... It works because we said it works and thats how it appeared."

Click on the image to the left for a "tour" of the Sgt. Pepper album cover.

• Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
  • Magical Mystery Tour
  • The Fool on the Hill
  • I Am the Walrus
  • All You Need is Love

• summer of 1968: Yellow Submarine is released (psychedelic trip to "Pepperland"); voices of cartoon characters are not the Beatles
  • extended excerpt from the beginning of film: the Blue Meanies attack Pepperland
  • resolution at end of film & the Beatles make a cameo appearance for the song "All Together Now"

• The Beatles (the White Album, 1968); mish-mash collection of a variety of musical styles
  • Back in the USSR
  • Rocky Raccoon
• Why Don't We Do It in the Road
• Honey Pie
• Revolution 9
• Good Night

• Hey Jude (1968)
  • Hey Jude
• Abbey Road (1969); the Beatles' biggest selling album (#1 for 11 weeks) & George's emergence as 1st-rate songwriter
  • Come Together
  • Here Comes the Sun
• Let It Be (1970)
  • Let It Be

The Beatles during the 70s

doing an impersonation of The Band at Woodstock

The Beatles Go Solo

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