A world where the Beatles never existed

[BoogerRooger]

Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis are shooting a new film just down the road, in which the Beatles never existed. I reckon there are still places in Suffolk where people are unaware they existed anyway.

Intriguing concept, I wonder what it will be like?

(link removed)

 

[Splodgeness]

Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis are shooting a new film just down the road, in which the Beatles never existed. I reckon there are still places in Suffolk where people are unaware they existed anyway.

Intriguing concept, I wonder what it will be like?

(link removed)

 

[Splodgeness]

I grew up in Lowestoft........ never thought I'd see a link to the journal on this site!!

 

[Anode100]

Probably really quiet - no hype, no screaming girls - and no Macca milking his career for decades afterwards.

I'm in!

 

[RoyalBaby]

A lot of my musical tastes would be unaffected. Blues, reggae, bit of country, bit of gypsy jazz, some Avant Garde stuff. All with roots well pre Beatles. No Beatles would mean no Brit Pop and the awfulness that was in the 90s.
I don't imagine that the fawning ninny Richard Curtis sees it as a good thing though.

 

[Mr C]

Well no Beatles = no britpop = no trainspotting = no Danny Boyle = no movie about the world without the Beatles...

 

[Anode100]

Well no Beatles = no britpop = no trainspotting = no Danny Boyle = no movie about the world without the Beatles...

Ooh! I'd never thought of it that way!

 

[Bristlehound]

If The Beatles never existed there's a good chance that I wouldn't have been motivated to learn the guitar. Playing along to The Beatles was my tuition.

 

[Anode100]

Given that the Rolling Stones were only signed because Decca missed out on The Beatles, in a world without the mop-topped four, there'd be no Keef.

Well, he'd still exist, just maybe not as the tele-toting icon we know and love today...

This is turning into a mixed bag.

 

[Norris Vulcan]

"No Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stones..."


Joe Strummer

 

[Billnchristy]

No gimme sympathy from metric.

 

[acrylicsuperman]

Well no Beatles = no britpop = no trainspotting = no Danny Boyle = no movie about the world without the Beatles...

But possibly a movie about a world with The Beatles, which would be an interesting concept in a world where they don't exist.

 

[Bones]

Some other band would have been hyped in their place. The Beatles didn't just fall out of the sky, they were the sum of their influences and the contemporary scene that they developed their skills in .

 

[smartsoul72]

Some years ago now, when the Beach Boys "Smile" finally was (re)released, I really let myself go wondering what pop music would've become if the BBs had beat the Beatles "Pepper" and set the tone for music fans.
I know- alot of what-ifs. But isn't that the whole basis of the movie- what if?

 

[knopflerfan]

If the Beatles "never were", the music world would be "in a world of hurt". Just my two cents.

 

[brookdalebill]

I would have just waited around for Buffalo Springfield to appear.
They were the next band to be populated by writing/singing/playing overachievers, IMO.
Blessedly, the Beatles showed the way.

 

[Rustbucket]

No Yoko Ono?

It certainly would have had an impact, but music would have found its way. Some other band would have influenced enough young people to be crowned as the “be all, end all”.

 

[Torren61]

Probably really quiet - no hype, no screaming girls - and no Macca milking his career for decades afterwards.

I'm in!

You mean playing the songs he's written including three of the most covered songs of all time? You mean singing in five octaves? You mean playing over 40 instruments? Is that "milking his career"?

It seems like you don't recognize genius.

For the rest of you, try going through that list. There are some amazing songs there. I wish I could write a song like "Yesterday" or write and play a bass line like the one on "Something".

(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)
(link removed)

 

[Torren61]

Part 2 of McCartney's song list.

(link removed)
Cook Of The House
Coquette
Country Dreamer
Crackin' Up
Darkroom
Daytime Nightime Suffering
Dear Boy
Dear Friend
Deliver Your Children
Distractions
Don't Be Careless Love
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Don't Let It Bring You Down
Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
Dress Me Up As A Robber
Drive My Car
Driving Rain
Eat At Home
Ebony And Ivory
Eleanor Rigby
Eleanor Rigby | Eleanor's Dream
Every Night
Famous Groupies
Figure Of Eight
Flaming Pie
Flying To My Home
Footprints
For No One
Freedom
From A Lover To A Friend
Get Back
Get It
Get On The Right Thing
Get Out Of My Way
Getting Closer
Girl's School
Girlfriend
Girls School
Girls' School
Give Ireland Back To The Irish
Golden Earth Girl
Golden Slumbers
Good Day Sunshine
Good Day Sunshine | Corridor Music
Good Rockin' Tonight
Good Times Coming | Feel The Sun
Goodnight Tonight
Got To Get You Into My Life
Great Day
Hands Of Love
Heart Of The Country
Heather
Heaven On A Sunday
Helen Wheels
Here Today
Here, There And Everywhere
Hey Jude
Hi, Hi, Hi
Hi—heel Sneakers
Hold Me Tight
Honey Hush
Hope Of Deliverance
How Many People
However Absurd
I Am Your Singer
I Do
I Got Stung
I Lie Around
I Lost My Little Girl
I Owe It All To You
I Saw Her Standing There
I Wanna Be Your Man
I'm Carrying
I'm In Love Again
I've Had Enough
I've Just Seen A Face
If You Wanna
It's Not True
Jet
Junior's Farm

Junk

Just Because

Kansas City

Keep Under Cover

Lady Madonna

Lawdy Miss Clawdy

Lazy Dynamite

Let 'em In

Let It Be

Let Me Roll It

Let's Have A Party

Let's Have A Party (alternate Version)

Letting Go

Listen To What The Man Said

Little Lamb Dragonfly

Little Willow

Little Woman Love

Live And Let Die

London Town

Lonely Road

Lonesome Town

Long Haired Lady

Long Haried Lady

Looking For Changes

Love In Song

Love Is Strange

Lucille

Magic

Magical Mystery Tour

Magneto And Titanium Man

Mama's Little Girl

Mamunia

Man We Was Lonely

Mary Had A Little Lamb

 

[Torren61]

Part 3 of McCartney's song list

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)





(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)

(link removed)