Beatle solo careers

Is anyone  interested in the solo careers of some of the Beatles after they broke up? I personally love "All Things Must Pass" by Harrison, and I have a compilation of Lennon's best too. Anyone else?

I like Harrison's Cloud Nine....











(and I'm sure Cygnus X-2 will agree with me.)

Harrison would win my vote for best solo Beatle - in addition to All Things Must Pass, the Concert For Bangla Desh has some fantastic stuff on it, Cloud 9 was pretty good and Brainwashed was excellent. Add to that the first Travelling Wilburys album and Chants of India (a co-production with Ravi Shankar), plus the fact that he financed Monty Python's Life Of Brian and Handmade were also responsible for some other pretty good films and I think the case for the quiet one is conclusive. I think it's also fair to say that he was the only one of the four to exceed expectations after the split. Mind you, I even like some of Ringo's solo work .

It's funny, I was a huge Beatlemaniac when I was a kid and when they broke up I thought rock was just finished. And in a way it was. 1969-70 was a real downfall for R&R. Beatles broke up, Cream broke up, Dylan was in hiding, Jimi died along with Jim and Janis later. The Stones had the disastorous Altamont concert. The 60's didn't exactly end on a high note. Led Zeppelin and Sabbath was pretty much all that was left at that time. And despite Crimson's breakthrough debut, they were still wavering and prog was still in it's infancy.

So, I went into a sort of withdrawel and didn't even pay much attention to the Beatles solo stuff much. No matter what they would do, it wouldn't be the same. In fact, I didn't even buy a Beatles solo album 'til Macca's Band With The Runs in '74.

But all in all, I would put Georgie's All Things and John's Imagine at the top of the lists.

Note: In case some of you don't know, that's Alan White drumming for Lennon on the early albums. I think Imagine was the last he played for him on.

marktheshark wrote: Note: In case some of you don't know, that's Alan White drumming for Lennon on the early albums. I think Imagine was the last he played for him on.

Also, Phil Collins supposedly played the congas on the "All things must pass" sessions, but didn't make it to the final mix.

PROGMAN wrote: Welsh band Badfinger sounds exacly like the Beatle, well the resemblance anyway!!!

Apart from being named after a Beatles song, signed to Apple and having a McCartney song as a single, I can't see any resemblance..

Good band who came to a tragic end thanks to record company incompetence.

Atkingani wrote: chopper wrote: PROGMAN wrote: Welsh band Badfinger sounds exacly like the Beatle, well the resemblance anyway!!! Apart from being named after a Beatles song, signed to Apple and having a McCartney song as a single, I can't see any resemblance.. Good band who came to a tragic end thanks to record company incompetence. As long as I know 2 of the original members comitted suicide and the other 2 are in a bad situation due to legal problems (they aren't able to get part of the money they received). Anyway, one of the first Badfinger hits was McCartney's 'Come and get it', circa 1970.

Correct. Apparently they were accused of stealing money from their record company. This turned out to be a record company accounting error, but it was too late and Badfinger's career was ruined by this.

George Harrison was me fav Beatle. It's a pity he didn't get to write more in the band. The songs he did write were some of their best. 'Here comes the Sun ' is a timeless song.

May I submit for your consideration, Paul McCartney's first two solo efforts.

McCartney had the excellent "Maybe I'm Amazed", something The Beatles surely would have recorded had they not broken up. It also contained a lot of filler.

RAM has a number of very good songs including "Uncle Albert - Admiral Halsey", & "Too Many People", which, IMO contains one of the best guitar solos McCartney has ever done.

I tend to agree that George had the most interesting stuff.

John was John & I can take his music in moderation only.

Edited by A'swepe

• John Lennon:

1. "Imagine" (1971)
2. John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band: "Same" (1970)

• Paul McCartney:

1. Paul McCartney & Wings: "Band On The Run" (1973)
2. Paul & Linda McCartney: "Ram" (1971)
3. Wings: "Venus And Mars" (1975)
4. "Flowers In The Dirt" (1989)

• George Harrison:

1. "All Things Must Pass" (1970)
2. "Electronic Sounds" (1969)

•  Ringo Starr:

1. "Ringo" (1973)