Rolling Stone Magazine - Sep. 09 - Why the Beatles Broke Up

I came of age in the time that was also the age of the Beatles, and I've always been grateful for that simultaneity. Along with the Beatles, and no doubt because them, many of us grew into an awareness that shared tastes in music might also amount to shared community, and that community could amount to new ideals, new oppositions, new fun, art, fear and political power. Now, these years later, I think of the Beatles as one of the most romantic and dramatic exemplars of democracy that helped move youth culture in the 1960s: They were themselves a democratic unit — all for one, one for all, and in times of disagreement, they nonetheless enjoyed a fraternal sense of accord that made consensus a functional part of their shared dreams.

But democracy is always tenuous and, in any real way, ephemeral, and it was how the Beatles exemplified these latter qualities that is what made for the dynamics we saw at work in the Beatles' end story. By the time they came apart, no matter the personal differences and rivalries and any internal pain and madness, the Beatles were just too big and important to break up without saying something about the world that they had helped shape. As the 1960s' hopes of community and free-form democracy gave way to something harder and more bitter, the Beatles too fell prey to the dissolution, and they knew it. After all, they had believed so deeply in love as a means to personal and social redemption, there was no way they could leave each other without breaking both their times and each other's hearts.

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This has all been observed in many ways in the past, and will be for generations to come. Yet even if it makes a sad sort of sense — a symbol of unity that ends, like the era it centered, in disunity — there will still always be something mysterious about why and how the Beatles came apart the way they did, in so much rancor and avarice. John Lennon always referred to the band's end as "a divorce," but that was simply how he justified his own leave-taking (and clearly, Lennon was no model for how to separate fairly from others, given how he left his first wife, Cynthia).

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Carnival of Light

Paul McCartney has revealed more about the Beatles‘ lost song “Carnival of Light,” a 14-minute track the band recorded in 1967 but never released. While McCartney wants people to hear the track, which he has described as a “happening,” he recommends fans keep their expectations in check. “People are thinking there’s another ‘Strawberry Fields’ somewhere [and] you know, this is more plinky-plonky,” McCartney told the Times U.K.. “I mean, I like it, but it’s not to everyone’s taste.”

The song was apparently not for George Harrison’s taste either, since the guitarist blocked “Carnival” from appearing on the Fab Four’s Anthology 2 collection. The track was recorded for the Million Volt Light and Sound Rave at the Roundhouse and earned a place in Beatles lore over the decades. “The time has come for its moment,” McCartney said in November. “I like it because it’s like the Beatles free.” Still, no plans to release the track have been unveiled, but it’s a safe bet that you shouldn’t expect the epic-length track to show up anywhere on that Beatles’ Rock Band game.

Paul McCartney revelou um pouco mais sôbre "Carnival Of Light" uma faixa de 14 minutos que a banda gravou em 1967, sendo nunca lançada e então esquecida. Embora McCartney queira que as pessoas escutem a música, a qual êle descreve como um acontecimento, ao mesmo tempo recomenda que os fãs não mantenham a expectativa muito alta. As pessoas estão pensando que se trata de um outro "Strawberry Fields", o que não é bem o caso aqui. McCartney disse ao Times U.K., "Eu gosto, mas sei que não agradará a todos".

A canção aparentemente não agradou ao gosto de George Harrison tambem, uma vez que o guitarrista a bloqueou no álbum "Antologia 2" do Fab Four. A faixa foi gravada para o "Million Volt Light and Sound Rave at the Roundhouse" e definitivamente ganhou um lugar nas lendas que vem envolvendo os Beatles, através das décadas.
McCartney, em novembro disse ainda, "Chegou a hora para êsse momento", "Eu gosto dela, porque é como se fosse os Beatles sem amarras". Ainda não há planos para o lançamento da canção, que de qualquer maneira não deverá ter o original comprimento épico no vídeo "The Beatles's Rock Band".

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