It's astounding that the popular history of the world's greatest rock band—acclaimed the most important musicians of the twentieth century—has focused on only one short period of its existence, namely the 1962-1970 years. The incompetence of record companies has conspired with sixties nostalgia to relegate anything after that golden era to limbo. One would think the Beatles split up in 1970!
We true fans know, of course, the four continued to produce great music together, as good as or better than their 1960s hits. Of course it was in a slightly different form that the Beatles created their latter masterpieces of pop music.
Let's Put the Beatles Back Together AgainHow to Assemble and Appreciate the 2nd Half of
the Beatles' Legacy
A new book by Jeff Walker,
author of The Ayn Rand Cult
Occasionally bootleggers have re-released part of the the band's great work of the past three decades on CDs, reigniting interest in the post-1970 Beatles. It is hoped the Beatles' official record companies will follow suit and with their greater resources bring the wider public this great music that has been unjustly neglected.
Writer Jeff Walker has blazed the trail for them. For over a decade he has worked (with a little assistance from Editor Eric) digging up original musical recordings and listening to various versions of songs to try to reconstruct the Beatles' post-1970 legacy. The results of his research are in his latest book, Putting the Beatles Back Together Again.
These web pages, following Walker's reconstruction for the most part, are an appreciation of the Beatles during the period when they were sometimes known by the clunkier name of the Beatles Releasing Collective (BRC).
Click on the links at the left to relive those years and appreciate the musical output of the Beatles from the early 1970s to the present day.