![]() ![]() ![]() I envision t his album coming out in 1972 or 1973. I call this new compilation Piece of Love, because most of the songs are about love in its various forms, and also as a wink, nod, and tip of the hat to Ringo's favorite catch phrase over the last bunch of years. In compiling the songs, I followed the same criteria that I used for Imagine the Beatles-and I found that I could create something of a concept album, one in which most of the songs touch upon the same themes, actually reflect each other, and even form a loose narrative. It is certainly, in my opinion, the most cohesive one. First, I've since revised the track lists for both albums, as you'll see below.īut more importantly, I have finally put together a third compilation, one that completes an unplanned trilogy of post-breakup "Beatles" albums.Īnd this third one may be the best one of all. I'm revisiting the topic now for a couple of reasons. I should note that my piece about Odds and Ends and Imagine the Beatles, titled "Reuniting the Beatles (On CD)," remains the most-viewed post I've ever written for this blog. I actually found this image on the Internet-perfect for the cover of the compilation I put together! In my alternate reality, this would have come out in late 1971 or early 1972. ![]() This meant I would consider songs that, even if they were definitely written after the breakup, had that certain Beatles quality to them, and you could, er, imagine them being recorded and performed by the group.Īppropriately enough, I titled this second compilation Imagine The Beatles. Instead of considering only what WOULD have probably ended up on a Beatles album, I decided to consider would COULD have been on a Beatles album. The album cover that I put together for Odds and EndsĮventually I put together a follow-up compilation, one for which I loosened up my rules a little bit. In the alternate reality I envisioned, Odds and Ends would have been recorded sometime after the May 1970 release of the Let it Be album, and released in either late 1970 or early-to-mid 1971. The end result, Odds and Ends, was, I felt, a fair approximation of what the next Beatles album would have sounded like had the band stayed together past September 1969 and recorded another LP after Abbey Road. After extensive research, I pulled songs from the earliest solo albums by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr-songs that I knew had originally been written for and workshopped by the Beatles, or that could have worked really well as Beatles songs, and put them together as an album-length compilation. Way back in 2010, I posted here about a fun creative venture I had undertaken years earlier. ![]()
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