Episode 45 – Beatles ’70 pt6

It’s the winter of 1970, and there are three new LP’s from three former Beatles for fans around the world still mourning the band’s demise. With the Nashville-tinged Beaucoups of Blues LP, fans got a taste of Ringo’s vocals alongside the very top talent in country music. A novelty such as it was, Ringo’s album was quickly overshadowed by the two other projects he had contributed to in the summer and fall: new albums from George Harrison and John Lennon. First up, the epic triple album All Things Must Pass - a monster smash success and brilliant musical statement that propelled George to a new stratosphere of acclaim and stardom. If anyone thought for a moment that The Beatles were purely the sum of Lennon and McCartney’s talents, All Things Must Pass quickly silenced those naysayers with a collection of songs that ranged from the intensely personal, to the wildly commercial, all treated with the gentle yet biting care and respect of the man himself. And speaking of the intensely personal...John Lennon’s masterful Plastic Ono Band LP, which followed George’s on the release schedule, gave listeners a whole new insight into the depths of his pain and the heights of his abilities. From the inner torment of Mother, to the Beatle-esq Remember, fans who had hoped for a Fab Four reunion need only to have listened to the litany of denunciation in the track God to hear for themselves that the dream was, indeed, over…