The Beatles Story in Pictures and Words

This is to the last post - It's spelled The BEATLES

if there's any chance of a new Beatles group of get together, why not Paul, Ringo, John's son and George,s
son and name themselves Beatles 2+2 or Beatles Old and New. It might be a combination of old and new beat and like Paul said during his appearance in New York, it is like performing to a "family" setting, father, mother and children.

correction: THERE ...before I get blasted by the grammar police

The Beatles were the best...simple as that...there has not been a group who varied so much in their technique nor creativity...John was my fav and I cried the night he died like he was family...he was a child of parental abandonment and it haunted him forever...yes, he may of been "cold" to his older son but he knew no better...I think he learned by the time he was dad a second time only to be taken from us so violently...and he would abhor this celebrityship anew that is bombarding us for the simple reason it is to make money off the Beatles name....their will NEVER be another like them...

To all the people that say you can not comment on anything about Julian and John because we weren't their must have their heads in the sand. Julian has given quite a few interviews about his life with his father. John did not want anything to do with him, as to the true reason no one will really ever know except Yoko. He loved Sean and wrote Beautiful, Beautiful Boy for him. He was young and touring constantly when Julian was little and maybe that is why they never bonded, but to not acknowlege him in his will is unforgivable. Julian looks like him and sounds like him and his Valotte album was great. John never even gave him credit for that. As far as Paul being Mr. Nice guy, he was a control freak and often had fights with George and John about the music, this came from an interview with George. George and Ringo were the easiest guys to work with.

Really why do people always act like they know famous people personally? None of you knew John Lennon he was a great man who did alot of good in this world. You have no idea what happened during his life, just because you read some stupid article doens'nt mean you know anything. Don't you all realise that they lie to make money. So stop talking badly about someone you don't know cowards!

Um, The Beatles performed five songs on their first Ed Sullivan Show appearance. You forgot "I Saw Her Standing There." Someone obviously watched "The First U.S. Visit" video instead of the actual Ed Sullivan Show. Shame on you.

YOU KNOW AFTER ALL THE YEARS THEY HAVE BEEN AROUND IT GETS A BIT STALE HEARING NEWS ABOUT THE BEETLES.
GIVE IT A BREAK. ENOUGH ALREADY. BORING !!!!!

To Wendy,you are absolutely correct. Children NEED both
parents, God made us that way. And you know I wondered
about Julian. Why he was left out in such a public way.
But then in the end so was Sean becasue he also did not
have his father except for 5-6 years in his early life.
Sometimes we don't separate the artist from the individual. You take an Alec Baldwin who is just a jerk,
his child is actually lucky not to have him around, so
go figure.

As stated by another poster, John had his own childhood traumas to deal with (parents separated when he was five; his mother killed by an off-duty policeman when he was just starting to get to know her again, when he was a teenager; the death of his best friend Stu Sutcliffe just prior to the onset of Beatlemania). Because of the burdens of fame, he never had a chance at a normal life with Cynthia and Julian.

HOWEVER, years later, in the late 1970s, he became close with Julian. So I suppose it's ironic that for him that he had his father taken away for a second time. And for Sean it was ironic that his father was taken away when he was at the same age as John had been when HIS parents split.