They positively never would've believed modern headlines at the soda fountains of either of the drug stores on 4th Avenue, back in the town where I was born.
Owing to a discussion the week prior, I wore a P-Mac (Macca for you Britons) concert🔹t-shirt to trivia night at the pub last week. My crew quizzed me as to why the graphic on the back was of the Beatles. "Because he was IN the Beatles..." Duh! Truly, you're more likely to sell more shirts if you co-reference the Liverpool lads than just the McCartney tour itself (Wings Over America possibly notwithstanding).
Over the weekend, I happen'd upon an article ranking the former members' 66 post-Beatles albums. Unfortunately - but unsurprising - Mr. Starkey's efforts pretty solidly anchored the bottom 10. George and Paul constituted most of the middle of the list, with John's works beginning to appear in the top half or third.
Obviously, McCartney, having outlived all but Ringo, has the most output. And, for the sake of transparency, I'll disclose that I've always skewed more to the Mac than the Len of the group - not slavishly so, though, and I have [vinyl] works from both in my collection. John has generally been regarded, by the 'public' and critics, as the group's 'genius'. So, I was a bit surprised when the #1 album by a former Beatle was not his.
What was it? All Things Must Pass, which I don't think I have in the archive. I might have to snag a CD for cheap off of Ebay.
🔹The t-shirt was from the 2014 'Out There' tour.
