To sum up my updated beliefs on the Beatles, based on my research and their from own words.
1. They were a manufactured entity, with a contrived narrative, instituted to influence youth at a mass scale, created and managed by a company called Tavistock. Other like British bands were so contrived and placed in the public view, ala The Rolling Stones, et.al.
2. They did not compose all of their songs, or perhaps, even a fraction of them. They were written by selected ghost composers. In particular, Rubber Soul was completely composed, mixed, with complete album art and song length finalized before the Beatles came to studio to add vocals. The official narrative was that they had
no usable material ready when they began work on 12 October, 1965, after grueling tours in the US and UK from June through August. Somehow, they composed, arranged, recorded, mixed, mastered, acetated, pressed, packaged, and distributed a masterful 16-song album in
six weeks. On 11-4-65, only half the songs, by the official narrative, were
completed. Somehow, (again) the final mix occurred on 15 November, 1965. Typically, the process of pressing, packaging, and distribution of a record in 1965 took a
minimum of six weeks, and that was an aggressive deadline. Apparently, the Beatles managed this process in two weeks, as records were in British record shops by 3 December, 1965, to complete a contractual obligation. They only logical explanation is that the only missing ingredient were their vocals. And they struggled with even these.
https://youtu.be/mB84lPOOljk
Scrub to 8:00. From 0:00 to 7:59 is wasted gibberish. The YT link says they were having "fun". I disagree. I hear four young men in distress and who are clearly out of their element.
3. They were not musical "geniuses", but willing accomplices in this massive ruse. Lennon himself referred to he and his mates as "mechanics" with zero music training. It's common knowledge that they lifted material from other performers, rather unabashedly. "Come Together" "I Saw Her Standing There" "I Feel Fine" "Revolution," as a few examples.
4. There are scores of songs on which Ringo did not play drums, because he was not a very good drummer, including their initial single, Love Me Do. The replacement also completed much of the drumming on The Beatles, as he was an accomplished and professionally trained musician.
5. Paul McCartney was replaced after the production of the Revolver LP. Whether he died, was killed, or just vanished is not known. The replacement was very likely planned years in advance, after Paul expressed his reluctance to continue the charade. The gap between the release of Revolver and Sgt. Peppers was 10 months -- the longest interval between albums to date. The details of this conclusion are way too involved for this post. Sgt. Peppers was the first album with the replacement, and the inferences that illustrate this begin with this record. But the "clues" are like the sprinkles on the top of a 1,000-layer cake. The replacement insisted on total control of the music on Sgt. Peppers.
"The whole concept was for us to pretend to be someone else so that?s why the uniforms ? it was just a way to remove ourselves from just being Beatles and not be fed up with being musicians.?
The idea worked. ?It allowed us to do crazier things than we might otherwise have done,? Paul said. ?I wasn?t me. I was this guy in this other group ? it was freeing.?
The replacement on Howard Stern.
