Article Highlights:
- John Lennon and Paul McCartney wished to preserve songwriting
- George Harrison and Ringo Starr wished to begin their very own companies
- How lengthy The Beatles had been collectively
When The Beatles had been interviewed in 1963 for a BBC documentary, they had been requested “How long are you going to last?” On the time, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr had been modest with their predictions, spanning from three months to 4 years. The group additionally revealed their life plans for after The Beatles ceased being profitable.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney deliberate on songwriting collectively after The Beatles
When the interviewer requested Lennon, “How long are you going to last?”, he stated: “Well, you can’t say, you know. You can be big-headed and say, ‘Yeah, we’re going to last ten years.’ But as soon as you’ve said that you think, ‘We’re lucky if we last three months,’ you know,” in accordance to the e-book George Harrison on George Harrison.
McCartney famous that, if The Beatles did have a protracted, wholesome life, their music would have to change as they acquired older.
“Well, obviously we can’t keep playing the same sort of music until we’re about forty, sort of, old men playing ‘From Me to You!’” he stated. “Nobody is going to want to know at all about that sort of thing.”
“One of these days we must sort through our old compositions. We might be sitting on a goldmine! Some of them might stand a chance. Meanwhile we go on writing – mainly for our next LP.” John, April 1963. Hear to ‘From Me To You’: https://t.co/cedkddnn0r pic.twitter.com/xyHrWuJtAU
— The Beatles (@thebeatles) September 9, 2021
However when it was time for the band to finish, McCartney stated he and Lennon deliberate on persevering with their songwriting efforts.
“You know, we’ve thought about it, and probably the thing that John and I will do, uhh, will be to write songs as we have been doing as a sort of sideline now,” he stated. “We’ll probably develop that a bit more we hope. Who knows? At forty, we may not know how to write songs anymore.”
George Harrison and Ringo Starr wished to begin their very own companies
In 1963, Harrison wished to begin his personal enterprise after his music profession.
“I hope to have enough money to go into a business of my own by the time we, umm, do flop,” he stated. “And we don’t know—it may be next week, it may be two or three years. But I think we’ll be in the business, either up there or down there, for at least another four years.”
Starr wished to open up a enterprise of his personal: a string of girls’s hair salons.
“I’ve always fancied having a ladies’ hairdressing salon,” he stated. “You know, a string of them, in fact. Strut around in me stripes and tails, you know. ‘Like a cup of tea, Madam?’”
The Beatles broke up after eight years
Their legacy will final a lifetime, however The Beatles had been really solely collectively for eight years earlier than the members went their separate methods. Completely different members stop at totally different instances due to elevated preventing in recording periods and contrasting inventive visions, amongst different points. However McCartney revealed (prematurely, with out an official announcement) to the media in 1970 that the band had damaged up.