History: With Ringo’s contract to Apple and EMI completed, he chose Polydor and Atlantic to be his new home. With the change in label he also decided to try using a new producer for the album as well. He also once again called on help from his friends, including John, George, and Paul as well […]
History: After the disastrous release of Dark Horse and the American tour that followed it, George once again focused on getting Dark Horse Records off the ground. But when one of the bands was unavailable for studio time that had already been booked, George jumped on the chance to make his final album commitment to […]
History: The Beatles often “borrowed” heavily from their influences when recording songs, and in a couple instances these resulted in lawsuits. “Come Together” was very similar to Chuck Berry’s “You Can’t Catch Me” even using some of the same lyrics. Berry’s music publisher Morris Levy sued John for it, and a settlement was reached out […]
History: George’s personal life was a mess by the end of 1973, his marriage was falling apart and he was struggling with drug use. The Beatles partnership was fully dissolved and George went about establishing his own label and helping a couple other recording artists make records before finally returning to do his own. Near […]
History: Ringo recorded this album in Los Angeles in 1974, not long after John had recorded Walls and Bridges, and also using a lot of the same musicians. John contributed a song (two if you include its reprise) as did Harry Nilsson and Elton John. Ringo also worked with Vini Poncia again on a couple […]
History: Now fully separated from Yoko and living with May Pang, John spent some time in Los Angeles and reconnected with his son Julian. He worked on an album with Phil Spector of early rock and roll songs that never came to be, but also wrote new material of his own. He returned to New […]
History: While Ringo released the singles “It Don’t Come Easy” and “Backoff Boogaloo” in 1971 and ’72, he chose to focus most of the time period on his acting career. By 1973 he was ready to record again, and he called a huge host of friends to help him, including all three former bandmates, Randy […]
History: After the huge success of All Things Must Pass, George shifted his focus into organizing the charity concert event for Bangladesh after Ravi Shankar brought to his attention the troubles that were affecting the area at the time. Beyond the two shows there was also an album and documentary released for the efforts. After […]
History: John and Yoko moved to New York City in September of 1971, and very quickly become involved with various protests and political movements across the US. Their activities were enough to make the always paranoid Richard Nixon nervous enough to call for the FBI to start an investigation against them. They wrote songs related […]
History: Not long after the release of his first solo album, which was critically successful if not as commercially successful as those of George and Paul, John started work on his second album, once again working closely with Yoko and Phil Spector on production, and inviting in George Harrison, Klaus Voormann, members of Badfinger and […]
After The End 