Yesterday and Today

Beatles ’80 pt4


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It's the summer of 1980 and a flurry of recording and activity abounds for all four former Beatles. The most surprising of which is that of John Lennon who, after having spent several years not seriously pursuing the writing of tracks for an album release, suddenly found himself with "creativity diarrhea" after a harrowing sea voyage to Bermuda. By the end of July John was on his way back to New York making plans to re-enter the studio for the first time in nearly 5 years. With inspiration at a peak for Lennon, McCartney found himself preparing songs as well...albeit with the feeling of "going through the motions" as it pertained to his band Wings. The group was still technically functional despite a solo release from Macca earlier in the year, but time was proving to run out on Paul's grand musical experiment of the 1970s. Ringo Starr, too, was hard at work on sessions for his then-titled new LP You Can't Fight Lightning, which saw contributions from the aforementioned Wings on the album's title track. With all this new music in the air, George Harrison instead took a look backward at the songs that defined his career to that point - a memoir co-written with longtime Apple Scruff Derek Taylor titled I Me Mine...

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