The Beatles Never Existed (apparently...)!

So, I guess the Stones win the "who's better?" argument by default, then?
 
BaaBaa said:
So, I guess the Stones win the "who's better?" argument by default, then?
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No they didn't exist either as a matter of fact the period from 1959 to 1976 may not have existed at all. A few of my friends cannot recall a single detail from that period.
 
Tero said:
I've seen 2 Beatles and, accidentally, one Rutle as Bonnie Raitt's drummer. Ricky.
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Ricky Fataar is an excellent Drummer both in concert and the studio. His work on Carl and The Passions is excellent!
 
Captain_Swoop said:
I have seen it before, a few years ago, someone arguing that the Beatles were just a cast of different people that changed over the years based on bad interpretation of dodgy pictures.
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I am not sure it was you that saw it before. I think it was someone else playing the Captain_Swoop persona but she, it was a great disguise, was slightly shorter.
 
Whenever it was time to replace one of The Beatles, they were murdered using a silver hammer that came down upon their head. They didn't even have time to yell "Help!"
 
Tomtomkent said:
So THAT is why Bungle had to voice Paul in the Yellow Submarine movie...
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The Beatles involvement with the Yellow Submarine movie was minimal;they saw it as a contractual obligation film under the 3 film deal they made with United Artists in 1964 they really did not want to do.
They agreed to make a cameo appreance at the end,for the obligatory original songs they gave the studio a few songs that did not make the cut for the Sgt.Pepper album;otherwise they had no involvement with the film.
 
To clarify for those unwilling to follow the link to the site, the theorists' contention is that there were different performers hired through the years to portray the same "character" in the band. The theorists' research began with the "Fake Paul" theory from the early days of the internet, using photographic comparisons that appear to show individuals of different heights and with different features (esp. eyebrows and ears). This then extended to include all the members of the band.

What these theorists fail to take into account are the workings of perspective, the mechanics of camera lenses, and the natural effects of aging. Reading through some of their "proof" threads is like looking at SweatyYeti's Bigfoot posts in the GenSkep forum a few years ago: a bunch of colored lines and cheap image-editing software used by clueless ignorami.

It's fun for about five minutes, as one wonders how these people could fail to see the obvious explanations for the differences. Then it just becomes tiresome.
 
dudalb said:
The Beatles involvement with the Yellow Submarine movie was minimal;they saw it as a contractual obligation film under the 3 film deal they made with United Artists in 1964 they really did not want to do.
They agreed to make a cameo appreance at the end,for the obligatory original songs they gave the studio a few songs that did not make the cut for the Sgt.Pepper album;otherwise they had no involvement with the film.
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Not surprising after HELP. And not an unwise move. Submarine works because it is film about the Beatles, rather than a film made by them. Help was too stilted and poorly acted. Magical Mystery Tour had ambition, but was a bit of an unstructured mess that never quite worked. A Hard Days Night was the perfect blend, of a great script and structure, with enough room for them to mess about and let their personality shine through.

They wouldn't have been able to do that in a cartoon. So a light hand and trusting the animators to supply the wow resulted in a film that is more or less watchable, with a few great moments. (A lot of not so great moments too, but, not awful).
 
Magical Mystery Tour had nothing to do with the United Artists deal.It was done by the Beatles themselves as a Holiday TV Special. But it was a mess. A few good moments, some of the musical numbers were well done (sort of a music video before anybody had heard of music videos) but it was obviously the work of amateurs. It was Paul's baby,with John making no secret of his lack of interest.
At least it had a couple of very good original songs (Fool On the Hill and I Am The Walrus) as opposed to the very mediocre originals for Yellow Submarine (Hey, Bulldog and All Together Now).
 
The Forums on the Beatles Never Existed website are a real hoot. 99% of the entries are by the guy who created the website. Of the other 1% a couple agree with him, the others are laughing at him.
 
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