{"id":117730,"date":"2025-05-20T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/117730\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T18:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T18:28:09","slug":"the-one-album-the-beatles-truly-regretted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/117730\/","title":{"rendered":"The one album The Beatles truly regretted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/The-Beatles-1968-John-Lennon-Paul-McCartney-George-Harrison-Ringo-Starr-Far-Out-Magazine-1140x855.jp.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Beatles - 1968 - John Lennon - Paul McCartney - George Harrison - Ringo Starr\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Credits: Far Out \/ Apple Corps)<\/p>\n<p> Tue 20 May 2025 17:00, UK <\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/tags\/the-beatles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">The Beatles<\/a> enjoyed their breakout moment, they\u2019ve been studied as an ultimate blueprint for success. When the Fab Four got their big break, they didn\u2019t just make it. They did more than that, earning global fame on a level the world hadn\u2019t really seen before but yet still manage to create a career that gave them room to grow and experiment as artists. In short, they had the dream career that so many yearn for, but there was one misstep the group regretted.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s a sad fact. Given the power of their career and the immeasurable impact their music has had, all four members deserved to look back on it with unfaultering and flawless pride. They were a group that, even today, is met with awe. It feels like a miracle \u2013 how were they so prolific? How did they balance mainstream success with experimentation so successfully? How did they manage to keep levelling things up and up and up?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a mystery where the only answer can simply be their own talent. The conclusion has to be that The Beatles were simply a perfect happening of the right people brought together by fate, growing up together into incredible musicians with shared inspiration and then launching a career off the back of that, where their passion drove them all the way. It was clear that the band were always dedicated to the music above all, and so with the music turning out so great, everything else fell in place. <\/p>\n<p>But there were regrets, sadly. Or, really, there was one major regret that all four members seemed to share. While <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/the-beatles-songs-that-the-beatles-hated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">each had their own songs or albums that they perhaps didn\u2019t like so much<\/a>, it never really became as weighty as a \u2018regret\u2019; it was merely a blip. However, in the case of the band\u2019s final album, and in the context in which it was made, Let It Be was a regret.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a wonder they even made it to start with. When the group got into the studio to write it, deciding to work very differently this time around and give themselves a strict deadline, things were already bad. <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/why-tusk-is-fleetwood-macs-white-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">The White Album in 1968 had shown major cracks<\/a> in their personal relationships that were still only widening. So when thrown into an intensive period, they kept splintering, leading to the first walkouts and the realisation that this was, inevitably, the end. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a disaster,\u201d biographer Barry Miles wrote of this period, \u201cPaul bossed George around; George was moody and resentful. John would not even go to the bathroom without Yoko at his side \u2026 The tension was palpable.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It was these difficulties that the band themselves always heard on the album. Given how personal music is, the harsh context of the record would always be audible on these songs to the writers, pushed into the track like a stored memory, so it\u2019s no surprise that they didn\u2019t like it.\u00a0\u201cEverybody listened to it back and didn\u2019t really like it, and we didn\u2019t really want to put it out,\u201d George Harrison once said.<\/p>\n<p>They did like the songs, though, or they did until the final moments when the always largely disjointed album, full of old material, new tracks and covers, was handed to another producer. <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/paul-mccartney-beatles-furious-letter-to-phil-spector-allen-klein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Phil Spector\u2019s work on the album was the final straw for Paul McCartney<\/a>, who quite literally made his moves to dissolve the band after hearing it. It wasn\u2019t even just the band members who quickly regretted the record, partially due to this, as even their long-term producer, George Martin, said it was \u201cuncharacteristic\u201d of the band or, in harsher terms, their engineer Glyn Johns said Spector\u2019s additions were \u201crevolting \u2026 just puke\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It was the album that truly ended it all, despite not being the one they recorded last, as the group were convinced to come back for Abbey Road. But right here, on this album, the end of the Beatles is locked in, meaning that none of the members could ever truly look back on the album with all that much fondness when it holds their fate. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe To The Far Out Newsletter  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Apple Corps) Tue 20 May 2025 17:00, UK Since The Beatles enjoyed their breakout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,33813,269,4162,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-117730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-let-it-be","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-the-beatles","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114541580148451240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}