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Speaker 2:It's a move that Paul does again and again in his songs, where you're down and then you free yourself. That for me is the moment in Abbey Road, that it's an album that is taking wing after you thought that the feathers were tarred forever.
Speaker 1:I was lucky enough to be in the audience for the Saturday Night Live 50th and I had seats that were way off to the side, so for all the live sketches I had a pretty good view but not the best and then I realized, oh wait a minute, here comes Paul McCartney to close the show with the final track on Abbey Road and I'm sitting right there. I'm in the perfect spot.
[Her Majesty.]
No, not Her Majesty. Yes, not them. Okay, you're going to be literal, where they're trading guitar solos and I got to watch Paul McCartney do that, yeah, out of body experience to see him do that and also know that they ended on a perfect note and I think there are people that moan about how the Beatles could have gone on into the 70s but I think one of the things that makes them a true rarity in show business is their timing was impeccable always and they ended on this beautiful note and then never came back and that's one of the reasons that we are still talking about them today.
I intend to hang around show business, I already have, long after I've served my purpose to an embarrassing degree, they timed it perfectly.
Speaker 2:Do you think also that the news that the Beatles are breaking up comes out in 1970, so in a sense the association of the Beatles with the 1960s is absolutely cemented by the fact that they don't survive into the next decade and do you think that's kind of important part in framing the memory of them, the understanding of them, that they're associated so indelibly with everything that made the 60s kind of vivid and technicolor?
Speaker 1:I brought up this concept of luck early on, none of this is planned. Think about how short a decade is to us now, at this stage of my life, a decade is so quick. They are in 1960, 61 just really getting started and in 1969 at the end of the year, they're finishing it up and that wasn't planned but like so many things with them, it's what happened and it was perfect, yes.
In history books 500 years from now, they'll be, if there's a section on the 60s and there are only three photographs, one of them is going to be of the Beatles.
Speaker 2:So do you think that people will still be listening to the Beatles in 500 years?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I do. You know, this is with the caveat that we're all still here in 500 years, could be a downer but one never knows. So unless we're destroyed in a nuclear holocaust.
Yeah, or I'm tending more towards alien invasion. Oh, the aliens will love the music but we won't be there anymore. Well, ship us off to a colony on RISAC-7.
Speaker 2:So this episode is spiraling off in a direction that I hadn't anticipated.
Speaker 1:No, that's my favorite thing is to take something, unlike the Beatles, I like to take something that is pretty perfect and then ruin it. Not at all, not at all. With my mad babblings. It's starting to get a bit Plasticolo-bad. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2:So that can be good That is, I think, the perfect way to end this episode. The 60s are over, the 70s are dawning, Plasticolo Band is waiting, Wings are waiting, All Things Must Pass are waiting, Photograph, Ringo's great hit is waiting. So it's certainly not over for the constituent parts of the Beatles, but the Beatles as a band are over.
And I think on that note, I should thank you very, very much for joining me here in Abbey Road to talk about the Beatles.
Speaker 1:Well, I think I've made it clear Restless History is my favorite podcast. So when I got the call, would you be on Restless History at the studio where your favorite band and your obsession recorded their songs? That's a trip I had to make.
Speaker 2:And you said that you were quite keen to be on the Restless History but only with one of us because you wanted to make the other one jealous.
Speaker 1:Well, next time it'll be just Dominic and we'll be doing Beards of the Civil War. And you will have to stew alone on your estate while we two yuck it up.
Speaker 2:Dominic is left to reflect on the error of his ways. If only he'd been a little more enthusiastic about the Beatles, he could have been here too. Or if he had understood anything about music. Yeah, that's true. And on that tremendous Dominic oriented note, thank you everyone for watching or for listening. Goodbye.
Speaker 1:Goodbye.
