McCartney Times

A half-century ago, The Beatles reigned supreme in the heyday of AM radio and rec room hi-fi turntables. Like many youngsters who were another decade or so away from scoring a driver’s license, I lived and breathed in anticipation of hearing the newest release from the 20th century’s greatest musical group.

As a preteen listening to the album “Let It Be” — played ad nauseam in my bedroom in a cookie-cutter American suburb of Seattle, to be a fly on the wall of the studio where the original supergroup fashioned its iconic songs was my unattainable dream. The Beatles were superhuman and as mythical as Superman and Santa Claus.

These mythical characters were subject to the whims of mythmakers who had us believing a litany of half-truths and fantasies: Yoko Ono broke up the band — or was it Paul McCartney who callously left the group? The famously bonded members weren’t on speaking terms during the making of the “Get Back” album and recorded their contributions in separate studios.

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