McCartney Times

When The Beatles stopped touring in 1966 it was a move that few bands could make. Times were frantic and although Ringo Starr asserted, “The Beatles were never gone. And they could have come back,” when they took a break from the road, it seemed clear that the keys to the day-tripping tour bus would be stowed away for good.

They had run-ins with overzealous and notably armed crowds in the Philippines, had to be carted around in the States in armoured vehicles with no suspension and couldn’t get a moment’s rest whether they wanted to or not. All the while they were trying to twist their own sound towards the kaleidoscopic in a multitude of ways.

John Lennon, like a Radio 4 DJ never afraid to deploy an uber-niche reference without explanation, felt it was fitting to liken the last days of The Beatles as a tour de force as akin to Federico Fellini’s most obscure project. By 1969, Fellini had reached his own period of experimentation for the sake of it and he produced his most bombastic work: Satyricon.

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