What if the Beatles never broke up?

Honestly I don't think they needed to stay together. The stuff they did as solo artists in the decades afterwards was more than good enough to scratch any itch you could have for more Beatles.

I think this is one of the less interesting "what-ifs" of music history. If there's one musician who I could stop from dying an untimely death it would be Jimi Hendrix. I will always wonder how his music would have evolved if he had lived past 1970 as he was still very much in the middle of his creative experimentation when he died. You just know Kurt Cobain would be utterly insufferable if he were alive today, on the other hand.
 
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There is a funny series of Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse sketches based on this premise.
 
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There would be many Beatles songs with horrific dolphin screeching in the background and it would have accelerated George's cancer, killing him a decade earlier. Eventually yoko's ear piercing throat noises will reach such a pitch that clone Paul will malfunction and kill John himself by crushing his skull, unstable he'll grow wings and duplicate his self before escaping forming a band on the run. Eventually Paul's creators would find him and his offspring crossing a road barefoot and proceeded to gun them down before they could convince Lisa simpson to become a vegetarian
Ringo continues to hangout in the background being cool as fuck.
 
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Then the mask comes off and you eventually realize that they were just a pack of greedy charlatans, just like all the other 60s groups that turned peace and love into a lifetime of worldwide tours for rich old fools to go to.
 
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SentinentCloud said:
the beatles is one of the most overrated bands of history and i am tired of pretending its not
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I was about to come here just to say this, people who think music died after the Beatles really heard some guys say, "We all live in a yellow submarine" and thought that was peak lyrical genius.

They weren't really that special of singers or song writers, their instrumental ability wasn't anything crazy either.

The actual audio quality of some of their greatest hits sounds like they recorded with the microphone in a shoebox, even remastered versions.

Sometimes that's something done intentionally for a grittier feel, purposely making the music sound raw or under-produced like in the case of grunge music, you can chalk it up to the technology of the era but that's total bullshit as there was plenty of music from that time period and before that just sounds better audio wise.

I'm being a bit of a hater. Music is subjective, and I know the Beatles are iconic and do have their place in music history, but they are, at the very least, slightly overrated.
 
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Beautiful Border said:
If there's one musician who I could stop from dying an untimely death it would be Jimi Hendrix. I will always wonder how his music would have evolved if he had lived past 1970 as he was still very much in the middle of his creative experimentation when he died.
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I wish Jim Morrison could've been saved but with his drinking and drug habits it was always inevitable. The guy was a genius though just like Hendrix.
 
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They were already more or less washed as a group by the time they broke up.
 
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Beautiful Border said:
If there's one musician who I could stop from dying an untimely death it would be Jimi Hendrix. I will always wonder how his music would have evolved if he had lived past 1970 as he was still very much in the middle of his creative experimentation when he died. You just know Kurt Cobain would be utterly insufferable if he were alive today, on the other hand.
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Jimi Hendrix was just starting to branch out and take on more jazz and African influences into his music right at that time and honestly he probably would have started a whole new genre of music the way he was going. Jimi Hendrix's death being a hit by the music industry is one of those conspiracy theories I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being true. He was pretty outspoken against them and was planning on cancelling his record contract and his music has been milked to death the music industry since he died.

Kurt Cobain I'm pretty ambivalent about but one from the 90's I wish hadn't died is Bradley Nowell from Sublime. Sublime's music could be kind of ridiculous but he was actually a decent musician when he wasn't wasted and high and he was actually pretty good at arranging and producing music when he wasn't wasted and high and from accounts I've read about him, he was a fairly decent dude that people loved, when he wasn't wasted and high.
 
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Maggots on a Train v2 said:
They would have churned out one album that had potential, but was utterly destroyed by Yoko Ono, and then everything afterwards would be mediocre attempts to transition to eighties pop.
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Lennon always said ELO is what the Beatles would have sounded like had they continued into the 70s, just with him and Paul instead of Jeff Lynne.
 
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The Beatles breaking up put them in the cathegory of legends. Their solo albums are classics and they never became pathetic parodies of themselves like the Stone did. A Beatles reunion would ha been a once in a lifetime pop culture event.
 
What would have happened if The Beatles had never broken up? They would have eventually fizzled out. Time is the bane of every musician. The drug usage stopped and I don’t believe they would have been able to keep up with the musical trends.

Queen had a successful tenure that lasted about three decades. Even though I much love their stuff from the 70s, I have always been impressed by the band’s ability to change their sound while still keeping their identity intact. I would posit then what would have happened to Queen had Freddie Mercury not embraced fagdom and die because of it? The answer is likely the same though. Time sucks.
 
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