WHY THE BEATLES BROKE UP: CHER CHEZ CHE LA FEMME($)

Close, but no sitar

Yes, since the days of the Rutles-and even before-people, some as famous as Mick Jagger, have been asking the $64 question, to wit: who broke up the Beatles?

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So, as we dangle ever closer to the precipice of worldwide super-duty Beatle hype on Sept number 9, number 9, number 9-and before as well-Rolling Stone mag weighs in with about a dozen pages on their theories.
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A nicely written ditty by Mikal Gilmore it be-with no new quotes but lots from the Get Back 30 Days boot- but one gets the feeling that Mikal is not really that familiar with the Beatles and their times, but rather, writes about something he's seen, but doesn't really feel.
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And, in the end, as they say, Gilmore carries the usual Yawn Weiner RS party line-thou shalt not blame Yoko for anything-and concludes it was Allen Klein who broke up the Fabs, then Paul McCartney who was pissed at Allen, and then John Lennon, who was pissed at Paul for being pissed at Klein, and for Macca having the temerity to announce first-via a silly press release insert in his first solo LP- that he was leaving the Beatles.

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Got that, mates?

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In this writer's opinion, the breakup of Beatles was caused (mainly) by artistic differences, money, wimin, money, a changing music scene, money, and well, money.

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Got that?

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FOOTNOTT: I generally like Rolling Stone but somebody-most like a bloody editor!-should have a jolly good pranging over a howler in a sidebar of the main article by Gilmore.

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Entitled, "Meet The Beatles, Again," about the upcoming CD remasters, and penned by Brian Hiatt, the following appears: '"I Am The Walrus," the title track from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band..."'

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Er, not quite boys!

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Close, but (from) one LP too far.

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