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August 23, 2021

Volumes 3 & 4 of What if the Beatles never broke up?

Do you remember 1972-73?  I don't.  I know we were still embroiled in Vietnam.  I was 7-8 years old, which meant when the year started I was living in Amarillo, TX and getting the nickname of "Motormouth" from my 2nd grade teacher.

By the Fall we'd relocated to Clarendon, TX where I started 3rd grade with Mrs. Lincoln (don't kinow why I remember her name).  

But in Beatles lore, you have John Lennon and Paul McCartney putting out very mediocre if not actually bad releases in Sometime In New York City and Red Rose Speedway respectively while George Harrison and Ringo Starr produced what many people argue is their best work in Living In The Material World and Ringo respectively.  Also though not included on the album Paul McCartney and Wings actually recorded the first James Bond title song to go to number one and the first "rock" James Bond song for a movie by the same name:  "Live and Let Die," which I do include in Volume 3.


Volume 3-44 Minutes 

  • Red Rose Speedway
  • Sometime In New York City
  • Living in the Material World
  • Ringo
  • Live and Let Die (Single)

Songs (in order) 
  1. Live And Let Die (PM)
  2. Attica State (JL)
  3. Photograph (RS)
  4. Living In The Material World (GH)
  5. Loup (1st Indian On The Moon) (PM)
  6. Be Here Now (GH)
  7. My Love (PM)
  8. Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (GH)
  9. John Sinclair (JL)
  10. You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful And You're Mine) (RS)
  11. Don't Let Me Wait Too Long (GH)
  12. That Is All (GH)


The end of 1973 saw two releases that form a full volume by themselves:  Paul McCartney's Band on the Run and John Lennon's Mind Games.  Band on the Run is Paul's best album (yes, I think it's better than Ram) from this era and Lennon's Mind Games though arguably not as good as Imagine is a pretty solid release.  

Volume 4-43 Minutes

Albums

  • Band on the Run
  • Mind Games

Songs.

  1. Band on the Run (PM)
  2. Jet (PM)
  3. Mind Games (JL)
  4. Out of the Blue (JL)
  5. Mamunia (PM)
  6. I Know (JL)
  7. Let Me Roll It (PM)
  8. One Day (At A Time) (JL)
  9. Bring On The Lucie (Freda People) (JL)
  10. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five (PM)


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