How would their sound have adapted to the 70's if they never broke up?

> They were doing different things
They were doing different things on beatles albums too
> they weren't as concerned with mainstream success/keeping up with current music trends
They all had mainstream success in the 70s

If John Lennon survived into the 90s, he would have made an industrial album

>Prog
CAN and Faust would've already been miles ahead of them.
>space-rock
Hawkwind and Gong would've already been miles ahead of them.

Shitty synth midi garbage reminiscent of "Temporary Secretary" mixed with sludge metal

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>george's shit keeps getting rejected
>one ringo song per album
>john wants to make artsy avante garde shit with his nip gf
>paul wants to make based granny music

white albums until they inevitably break up

i think he would've done a grunge 90's comeback sorta like what neil young did. john lennon/plastic ono band already sounds like proto-grunge at points desu. would've been easy to cash in too because of the lennon and cobain comparisons

can and faust aren't mainstream. they would not be competition for the beatles, only potentially a source of inspiration for them at most

i think the beatles are phenomenal but if they continued into the 70’s they’d start becoming repetitive and relying on other artist’’s innovations to write songs. they wouldn’t be ahead of the curvy anymore

>muh popularity contest
no one cares. All I'm saying is that those bands will have already innovated and covered all the grounds before the Beaters would even hypothetically touch them.

you could make this argument for a lot of stuff the beatles actually did during the 60's. i don't see the relevancy it has to the discussion of what the beatles would do next

Let It Be said it was a “new phase Beatles album.” Let It Be, Plastic Ono Band, and McCartney all have pretty stripped down sounds compared to their mid 60s stuff, and George was always into that Dylan like folk rock stuff, and Ringo releases a country album in 1970
Essentially, I assume they would have gone for a more stripped down roots rock type sound. The Basement Tapes and Exile on Main Street are the types of albums they would have released
It’s honestly a shame we didn’t get a chance to hear it, I’ve always thought they’d be a good lo-fi band. Listen to the Esher demos, they could have honestly just released most of them as is, without re-recording them for the final album
Another thing found was a recording of them discussing the next album after Abbey Road, and they wanted a more egalitarian route, with four songs from John Paul and George each, and two songs from Ringo.
Here’s my suggestion for a 1970s Beatles album
>Isolation
>Look At Me
>Every Night
>That Would Be Something
>I’d Have You Any Time
>Behind That Locked Door
>Beaucoups of Blues
>Losers Lounge
>Isn’t It A Pity
>All Things Must Pass
>Junk
>Maybe I’m Amazed
>Love
>Give Peace A Chance
Track order isn’t perfect or finished, but I think those are the songs I’ll pick

Yes I could, because The Beatles were behind at everything. I just like to bully their fans.

Alright then.
Good post, I haven't listened to the Esher demos. A more lo-fi Beatles sounds like it'd be very interesting. Not sure how I feel about that hypothetical track list though, there's some solo songs I like a lot that aren't on there.

The Beatles never adapted their sound for anybody but themselves

blatant lie

I wonder how much them sticking together would've pulled McCartney more along the artsy lines than pop.

Probably more of the same concerning Get Back/Let it Be in the early 70s, probably would've adopted some glam/British bubblegum later on in the vein of Sweet/Slade/early Queen, then morphing into a combination of Cheap Trick meets ELO before finally breaking up in the late 70s-early 80s, and then getting back together every couple of years for reunions and "Farewell" tours. (This time we REALLY mean it, so come see us because this is your last chance. We're not kidding around)

Presumably Lennon would still be killed in 1980, so the Beatles wouldn't make it past 1980

I see them really breaking up if it they did later on. I mean...they're literally the biggest band ever to already do that in the current timeline. They might reunite for an Anthology-No Direction Home type thing, maybe benefits but never semi-permanently reforming.

George might still really quit and put out a solo album to prove he didn't need them.

That’s meant to only be for 1970. I imagine a second solo album should be made using stuff from Imagine, Ram, more stuff from All Things Must Pass, and Ringo’s It Don’t Come Easy single
Early solo stuff is harder cause they went in such different directions and a lot of their stuff has a weird tonal shift. Like, I Found Out and My Sweet Lord can’t fit comfortably together on an album
1973 and onward are much easier
1973: Band in the Run
>01 Band on the Run
>02 Mind Games
>03 Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
>04 Photograph
>05 Jet
>06 Intuition
>07 Be Here Now
>08 Out Of The Blue
>09 Let Me Roll It
>10 Don’t Let Me Wait Too Long
>11 I Know (I Know)
>12 Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
1975: Walls and Bridges
>01 Venus and Mars
>02 Rock Show
>03 Going Down On Love
>04 Love In Song
>05 Whatever Gets You Through The Night
>06 Letting Go
>07 Simply Shady
>08 What You Got
>09 Call Me Back Again
>10 Bye Bye Love
>11 Scared
>12 Listen To What The Man Said
>13 #9 Dream
>14 Nobody Loves You When You’re Down And Out
>15 Goodnight Vienna
1980: Starting Over
>01 (Just Like) Starting Over
>02 Getting Closer
>03 Cleanup Time
>04 Soft-Hearted Hanna
>05 Old Siam, Sir
>06 Who Needs A Heart
>07 Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
>08 Love Comes To Everyone
>09 Goodnight Tonight
>10 Nobody Told Me
>11 With A Little Luck
>12 Blow Away
>13 Borrowed Time
>14 Mull of Kintyre