Music: Re: [Classic_Rock_Forever] Why did The Beatles break up?

From what I've been able to piece together, at first, it definitely WAS Lennons band. He was the oldest, the most experienced, and he drove the train. They werent the nice polite tuxedo-suited mop tops on the Ed Sullivan show at first you know. They were leather-clad rockers for a long time before that. Lennon supposedly HATED the whole suit thing and having to be "nice".

But, who knows what would have been.... I still dont think they could have lasted, no matter what. Too much success, too great of expectations, too many distractions.

--- On Tue, 5/10/11, Cfh <cfhiebert@sasktel.net> wrote:

From: Cfh <cfhiebert@sasktel.net>
Subject: Re: [Classic_Rock_Forever] Why did The Beatles break up?
To: Classic_Rock_Forever@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 6:45 AM

I haven't read that many articles/interviews with John, but the one's I have read definately point to a rebel. That or just a guy with a regular point of view, which doesn't always jive with the publics perseption of what a rawk star is all about. Suspect that if he'd been in complete control the group wouldn't have lasted as long as it did....or it would have taken a different direction and carried on longer.

Clint

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From: howl dog

To: Classic_Rock_Forever@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 7:19 AM

Subject: Re: [Classic_Rock_Forever] Why did The Beatles break up?

They werent the same guys in 1962 that they were in 1969. They grew in different directions and the stress of everything they went thru, no band could survive that. A friend of mine, Beatles freak who has read everything ever written about them, and every interview he could get his hands on, believes John Lennon was a true rebel in every sense of the word... and he thinks part of Lennon always wanted out of the band as soon as it became a successs... that there was a self-destructive streak in him from day one.

Paul, on the other hand, LOVED being a Beatle and still does.

--- On Mon, 5/9/11, bkushner@mcsnet.ca <bkushner@mcsnet.ca> wrote:

From: bkushner@mcsnet.ca <bkushner@mcsnet.ca>
Subject: Re: [Classic_Rock_Forever] Why did The Beatles break up?
To: Classic_Rock_Forever@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, May 9, 2011, 7:06 AM

All good points and to that I would add the fact that the creativity of John, Paul and George took each of them in different directions.

Bob

On 2011-05-09, at 6:57 AM, howl dog wrote:

Nobody could stay together for very long after all that success. It was inevitable.

Obvious issues that pushed them along to the breaking point were Yoko, Johns drug addictions, Paul being a control freak, George's Hindu obsession

--- On Sun, 5/8/11, itsgaryman <gchbama@Yahoo.com> wrote:

From: itsgaryman <gchbama@Yahoo.com>
Subject: [Classic_Rock_Forever] Why did The Beatles break up?
To: Classic_Rock_Forever@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, May 8, 2011, 4:45 AM

What is your opinion as to why The Beatles broke up?