Well then, here we go, the final chapter of this epic TL though not quite the end just yet...nonetheless we have a lot to get through in this update in which now that Harrison has passed on much like with OTL, what will the remaining Beatles do now? Well then, lets all find out then.
Brainwashed To The End
Extract from 'An Apple Domination: Apple Corps During The 2000's' by Ken McColl
The death of George Harrison had left a major hole for everyone at Apple Corps in which that one of the company’s founders had passed on was a truly alien feeling. Granted, Harrison had long since passed over leadership duties of Apple Films by this point but all the same, the sense of loss was still there. Going into 2002, the question of the planned Beatles album that was supposed to released for the year had been very much up the air since Harrison’s passing over if the album was to be completed or if the band had decided to give and end The Beatles there and then. On that basis alone, 2001 would looked as though to have been a dark year for Apple, not to mention the shock of 9/11 leaving a scar that would likely never heal, but if one was to ignore Harrison’s death, 2001 had in all honesty had not only been one of the greatest years for Apple Corps in its history but also had been a watershed moment for where the company was going.
It's film and animation divisions were both basking in the glory of box office success in which Shrek had become the unlikely animated hit that had managed to rip apart Disney’s ironclad grip on the animated film market which the end of the year would see the release of the first film of the
The Lord of the Rings trilogy being called
The Fellowship of the Ring which had opened to overwhelming positive reviews and had become the second highest grossing film of the year and with
The Two Towers and
The Return of the King both on track for a 2002 and 2003 release date respectively, Apple Films looked as though that they would have forever shredded off their Indy roots and had grown into a major film studio much like its American counterparts and more than likely as a launching point for any British studio wanting a main distributor to release films in the lucrative American and even Asian markets.
That all being said, it was rather bittersweet as that trilogy of films would truly mark the end of an era not just for Apple Films for Apple Corps as a whole. It would mark the end of Apple Corps’ hippy roots when it was first created in 1968 to allow for more creative control to now becoming a giant media corporation away from the world of music that they had been made before and now had become the very thing that they were trying to avoid happening to them. John Lennon would remark of the irony of this of how they had become the very thing they were fighting against and in truth, Apple’s influence stretched far and wide in a way greater than many of those other so-called big companies would have before them so even then Apple Corps had by this point become very much second to Disney in more ways than one and while there were many under the age of thirty who had grown up with Apple as a formality from their music, film, computer and theme parks, many of those at the time who had been there at the start would feel some sadness that too much had change and that the little company that The Beatles had formed all those years ago was no more.
With that said, The Beatles, despite being the backbone of that company for over thirty years were now at a stage of no longer being the main focus as Apple Corps was willing to try and show their new musical talent on show to prove that the company had more than just being The Beatles’ company or front even if by then they had more or less succeeded in this endeavour with all the award winning talent under the Apple umbrella that could be the envy of many in the music business but alas there were still many ignorant individuals he felt either wise and it was only after Harrison’s death that those people in question had only
finally started to take note that there was more than just The Beatles to Apple Corps. Just a shattering thought that it had only taken the death of a Beatle for this fact to hit those in the face after so long. Still, the question of this Beatles album remained unanswered, and it would be in February that the world would get an answer for what was to happen now.
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Extract from 'Brainwashed: The Inside Story of The Final Beatles Album' by Hunter Davis
From George Harrison’s death in November 2001 until the remaining Beatles came together again for a public announcement in February 2002, it had been a long period of mourning for the band as well as Sir Brian Epstein who very much had taken this badly to the point when he was needing to have a leave of absence from Apple to grieve too. No one really wanted to talk about making music during that time as when one member of a band had passed on, what were you supposed to do? Even though Harrison was always known as being the quiet Beatle and always felt he suffered being in the shadow of the likes of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, he would have been surprised to know how much his absence was affecting the band and perhaps millions of Beatles fans all over the world in that moment which would only show how important he was for the band. The idea of doing a Beatles album without one of the Fab Four present was unprecedented and questions would be raised if it would be a genuine Beatles album without one of them there.
Granted, they all knew that their fellow Apple peers Queen had a few years ago released their final album called
Made In Heaven [1] which had been released a few years after Freddie Mercury’s death with many of his vocals being added upon by the rest of the band to help complete the album and in the case for
Beatles 27 (as was its working title then), it was felt that at the very least that they should carry on yet with only 40% of the album having been recorded in Switzerland prior to Harrison’s death who in turn had only had less of that of that being only his vocals recorded, it felt empty without him on it. It was however his son Dhani Harrison who would be the lynchpin that would help bring the album back from the brink as seemingly anticipation his impending passing, Harrison had at his home studio at Friar Park many recordings he had done on the side to get out there in case anything happened to him.
Exactly why he wouldn’t mentioned most of this to his bandmates before recording had taking place in Switzerland was a baffling one though know Harrison and his wicked sense of humour, maybe he didn’t mention this for a last laugh? In truth, the song he had recorded as demos weren’t intended for being Beatles songs but upon hearing them, they were considered too good not to leave out and thus with a good number of Harrison songs to add to along with what had been recorded already in Switzerland, the project was alive again although the remaining Beatles wouldn’t be alone in tackling this final album. To help out The Beatles in recording the album would see Jeff Lynne being brought in once more to help produce it alongside Dhani Harrison whom the latter would play a major role in helping to bring the album to life in which he had suggested that The Beatles should record the remainder of the album at Friar Park as in a way of getting inspiration of what his father would have wanted.
Granted this was far from the first time the band had been at Friar Park or had recorded music there, but this felt different that this was all without Harrison though his presence was still felt whenever Lennon, McCartney and Starr were about and Sir Brian Epstein would say that it all felt difficult for him personally as he had grown so fond of George Harrison that he had never even then had gotten over his loss that he felt he couldn't be there in Friar Park as the memories were too strong for him and that the fact that young Dhani bore a striking resemblance to his late father made this feel even worse and that how the rest of the band could manage this was something that Epstein couldn't fathom himself.
Also helping on with the album would be Eric Clapton, who was not only one who knew Harrison inside out better than perhaps the rest of The Beatles but had been personally chosen by Harrison to take his place in the band to which he had politely declined the offer knowing all the comparisons that would be made about him and that even knowing his long friendship with Harrison that some would have felt like he was taking his place in which he felt would have been almost scandalous to some Beatles fans. To also help out with the new album, The Beatles' long-time producer George Martin would also be brought in for the addition of strings for certain songs in which this album would be some of his final work and given that this was most certainly the final Beatles album to be made then it was fitting that this too would be his final work on any album and with that, work on
Beatles 27 would restart.
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Interview of Ringo Starr (2006)
When we started work on Brainwashed at Friar Park, it was the sight that there was just three of us that really hit us that George is no longer here. It was really difficult to try and get on with it so we had to say stuff like, "George can you get us a cup of tea?" [2] just to try and distract us from that fact and in some ways we did get on with it but it really was a difficult album to do in terms of emotions.
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Extract from ‘Final Days Of The Beatles' by Alyson Henderson
It had been decided that the new album would have a total of fourteen songs, the largest amount of Beatles songs on a single album since
Band On The Run in 1973 in which while Lennon and McCartney would both get their share of three songs each as always with Starr getting his usual single song as always, it was perhaps to no surprise that Harrison would get the lion's share of songs in which he would have a grand total of seven songs, the most he had ever had for any Beatles album before and in one weird full circle moment of history, the tables had turned in which after all the years of Lennon and McCartney dominating all the space on an album with Harrison lucky to get at least one track on an album, Harrison had finally gotten the last word by having more songs than both those men combined which only went to show just how far Harrison had come as a song writer. Just a cruel twist of fate it had to take until after Harrison's death for this to happen.
Nonetheless, the songs in question from Harrison alone were all a strong bunch in which the first to be included was so far was
Horse To The Water which of course had been the final song that all four Beatles had recorded together in Switzerland, the other half completed song from that time out there would be
Rising Sun which was considered another Harrison classic. The other songs had all had their vocals recorded from years before that the rest of the band would have to add to in order to complete the songs in which the first to be worked on a Friar Park was
Stuck inside A Cloud, a intimate song in which was about Harrison's smoking issues that had brought on his cancer and was considered a favourite track from Dhani Harrison and a song that is considered a hard song to listen to without getting upset knowing the meaning of that song as well as in the context of the final album from The Beatles. Another unique song which would have no vocals on it, a rarity for any Beatles album, would be
Marwa Blues which with all its slide guitar parts that Harrison had all done some years prior before he was unable to play guitar anymore was pure Harrison in every sense of the word.
The fifth song from Harrison would be
Never Get Over You which was a song that could rival any love song that he had written before, the sixth song would be
Pisces Fish which would be an ode to his zodiac sign on the same name and the final track from Harrison and perhaps one of his most rawest songs he'd ever written would be
Brainwashed, a song that be a meaningful song with it being about how everyone is brainwashed by pretty much anyone and anything. With Harrison's songs all listed, that left just for all the other Beatles to bring forward their share of songs for the new album. Ringo Starr would step up to the plate with a song he had started but with the help of both Lennon and McCartney he would complete in which would be the song
Never Without You [3] which was a tribute song written for Harrison and would be the first song that the remaining Beatles would record following Harrison's death and was perhaps one of the more touching Starr songs for sure.
McCartney's songs would be a mixed bunch of old and new in which the first presented was the song
Heaven On A Sunday which had been written, recorded but ultimately cut from
Flaming Pie yet McCartney still said it had been his favourite song from that period and had wanted to use it for the past several years and here was a chance to use it, not to mention that it did feature Harrison's original guitar parts as recorded from 1997 which made its inclusion all the more important in which with a few tweaks made to the song while keeping much of Harrison's parts with the original recording, it was a genuine song that had all four working on. The second song to be included from McCartney would be
She's Given Up Talking which he had written up the previous year based on someone he knew whose kid had gone to school and wouldn’t talk all day that she was in school and then for a year she wouldn’t talk at school to which this idea of her giving up talking seemed like a good title to use.
Finally, the third and final song from McCartney would be
Spinning On An Axis which had been inspired during a trip to New Hampshire visiting American relatives to which was based on how he and his son James noticed how the sun wasn't going down but that the Earth was spinning on a axis which would lead to the inspiration of the song. Both songs were one of the few on the album that didn't have any contribution from Harrison as they would be recorded at Friar Park. Finally it was down to Lennon's turn to bring forward his collection of songs to use for the album with the first being an acoustic solo number called
Not For Love, Nor Money [4] which had been a song that stuck in Lennon's backlog of songs for many years and he had tried and failed to find a place for the song until now. The second song from him would be
Grow Old With Me which had been a song that Lennon had imagined along with with May to end up becoming the kind of song that they would play in church every time a couple gets married [4] and indeed as he would hope for, it would be a song used in the years following to be played for whenever Beatles fans have gotten married to use it as the song for the married couple's first dance meaning that it did have the desired effect.
However, in the context following Harrison's death, the song took on a totally different meaning that perhaps no one expected in which the song could be viewed as a mournful plea from Lennon to Harrison wishing that he would 'grow old with the rest of them' so to speak which makes that track a tearjerker in truth. The final song from Lennon would actually be fittingly the final song that would be recorded for the album in which would be
Now And Then in which while there had been progress done in Switzerland with Harrison doing some backing vocals, as well as some of his final guitar playing before he would be unable to do so due to his advancing cancer but would be finished at Friar Park with some tweaked lyrics such as adding 'I miss you' [5] which was of course very much aimed at Harrison. The final ever Beatles recording would be done on March 14th 2002 with the completion of
Now And Then and then, it would dawn on those there the gravity of the situation.
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Interview of Paul McCartney (2012)
Once we did
Now And Then and we got the all clear from Jeff [Lynne] that we had a good take to use, we all just looked at each other in silent not knowing what else to say as it really didn't hit us then that this was likely the last song we'd record as The Beatles. Instead we all just shook hands, quietly patted each other on the back hoping to see each other next time and we all left Friar Park without much thought and it was when I was driving away and half way on my journey that it only really hit me as I though, "Oh shit, that's it, the last Beatles song ever to be done". It really was the end and you really did think to yourself as what are you supposed to do now with yourself.
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Extract from 'Brainwashed: The Inside Story of The Final Beatles Album' by Hunter Davis
Despite having completed all the recording, it wouldn't all over as final mixing would still need to be done in which George Martin would add the final touches by adding string sections to several songs mostly with
Now And Then before Jeff Lynne would complete the final mixing with a planned release for the album for May yet it was the title of the album that everyone wanted to know though unbeknown to everyone behind the scenes, it would see a late last minute change for the title. It was planned that the title for album when recording would restart in February was to call the album
Brainwashed Now And Then which of course was a combination of the two songs from Harrison and Lennon respectably in which the idea of the title was an in-joke that Beatles fans would be brainwashed now and then to love their work for all time.
However, while at first it had seemed like a fun idea to begin with, Lennon would admit to getting cold feet on the idea of the title feeling that the title might take away from Harrison's song which in turn was to be the finale song for the album and that him having the name of his own song added to the title would have felt rather tasteless in his eyes so he quietly asked for the title to be dropped to which the album would be revealed publicly to be simply called
Brainwashed.
That said, it had been so close to be be given its original name that posters and other pieces of promotional material had already been made in which have often been the source of rare pieces to any hardcore Beatles fan's collection as those unreleased posters in particular do sell for some large amounts of money. That said, there have been some who have felt that the original title would have been better suited for the album but alas, it was not meant to be and thus
Beatles 27 would become
Brainwashed and the rest of the world could hardly wait for the release of that final album.
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Extract from ‘Final Days Of The Beatles' by Alyson Henderson
While nearly every Beatles album always had some kind of hype going into its release with many keen to hear what The Beatles had cooked up next, even for the standards of The Beatles there was nothing like the hype that had gone into the build to the release of
Brainwashed prior to its release. The thought of the final ever Beatles album was something that few would have imagined or even had wanted to happen but here it was though some had suspected that the 'dead celebrity' bounce for a post humorous release in the wake of George Harrison's passing might have contributed to it to make this album feel more like an event and even if you weren't a Beatles or music fan in general this felt like a moment in history that you couldn't miss.
Even before one album had flown off the shelf,
Brainwashed would record the highest pre-orders for any Beatles album before, actually even the highest of that year compared to other albums, such was the hype for this album and finally on May 10th 2002, Brainwashed would be released worldwide to the public and the image to long remember that album by was of any major record store across the world having people lined up as if going to see a big blockbuster film such was how demand to hear the final Beatles album had reached a fever pitch. Question was, would it all live up to the hype?
Brainwashed (2002)
1) Horse To The Water
2) Never Without You
3) Rising Sun
4) She's Given Up Talking
5) Not For Love, Nor Money
6) Marwa Blues
7) Grow Old With Me
8) Stuck Inside A Cloud
9) Heaven On A Sunday
10) Never Get Over You
11) Spinning On An Axis
12) Pisces Fish
13) Now And Then
14) Brainwashed
Upon its release,
Brainwashed would be one of the fastest selling albums in history, even for Beatles standards this was something different and the album was at one point looking like it would become the highest selling album of 2002 but alas it would just be pipped at the post by
The Eminem Show which would come out shortly afterwards. Thankfully, the album would receive positive reviews in which while many critics did say it wasn't quite up there with some of the band's other masterpiece albums, it was nonetheless still considered a fine album in its own right an a fitting finale for The Beatles.
Brainwashed itself is wildly considered one of the more emotional Beatles albums not just for the fact of being the last ever Beatles album but that many of the songs are of a more venerable nature such as
Stuck Inside A Cloud and
Never Without You coming to mind with
Grow Old With Me and
Now And Then being very much a feeling like full circle numbers for the album. Indeed, on its release, the album itself would be a difficult one for Beatles fans to listen to in which it was likely no one would have gotten thought the album once before shedding a few tears to the point when some Beatles fans would rather call the album
Tearjerker instead because of this.
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Extract from 'Brainwashed: The Inside Story of The Final Beatles Album' by Hunter Davis
It must be reminded in which the album was rather unfortunately blinded by the hype of being the 'last Beatles album' and benefiting from the dead celebrity bounce in George Harrison that few early on would give the album a more detailed analysis to give it a more critical view. While indeed it was a good album in its own right, it has been criticised by some for given the large amount of Harrison songs on the album that Brainwashed can be argued to be more of a glorified Harrison solo album that has some Beatles sprinkling on it with some wondering if Harrison hadn't passed away if the same sort of album would have still happened or had been a totally different beast with some wondering if this was done to milk the moment on the death of Harrison.
It was a loaded comment to make yet it wasn't totally untrue as over the years whenever some famous singer or songwriter would pass on, an album baring their name with some never before heard songs would be released so thus some felt as this was a period of 'Harrison-exploitation' in which the other Beatles denied greatly though nonetheless it did make some people think. But with that all said, the album itself was a success overall with
Horse To The Water and
Now And Then being released as singles to start off with in which the former would be a number one hit in both the UK and US charts (subsequently being added on reprints on
1 in the coming years too) though the very final Beatles album would be released with many of the songs from Brainwashed on what would be the eighth and final Beatles compilation album being
The Beatles/Gold (1995 - 2002) released in time for the Christmas period which would bring a full circle of forty years of hits from 1962 to 2002 end neatly there and then.
While this might have seemed like the very end of The Beatles, there was still perhaps one final performance for the band in which would take exactly one year after Harrison's death at the Royal Albert Hall on November 29th 2002....
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Extract from ‘Final Days Of The Beatles' by Alyson Henderson
While there had been many countless tributes made for George Harrison following his death as well as countless covers of many of his songs being made in that time, there hadn't really been something like a farewell concert much like the emotional
Freddie Mercury Tribute Show organised by Queen about a decade prior, nor had there been really what many felt would be a true farewell for The Beatles but that would change on November 29th 2002, exactly one year following Harrison's death. This event would of course be the
Concert For George [6] in which was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London and the event was to be organised by Harrison's widow, Olivia, and his son, Dhani, and arranged under the musical direction of Eric Clapton.
It would perhaps one of the greatest tribute shows ever put on in which really was a microcosm of all those who Harrison had known in which the concert opened with a traditional Sanskrit invocation, the
Sarvesham chant, followed by Indian music starting with Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi Shankar, playing
Your Eyes before Brian Epstein would make his appearance on stage, one of his rare public appearances following Harrison's death, to welcome everyone to this event [7]. Next, Anoushka Shankar, Dhani Harrison, and Jeff Lynne performed the nearly forgotten Beatles number
The Inner Light, followed by a Ravi Shankar composition
Arpan (Sanskrit for 'to give'), specially written for the occasion.
Next, there was to be a comedy interlude with four of the surviving members of the Monty Python troupe (along with Python contributor Neil Innes) performing
Sit on My Face. Then, Michael Palin came out as an over-the-top announcer who eventually states that he only ever wanted to be a lumberjack. He was then joined by the Pythons, Innes, Carol Cleveland, Tom Hanks, and The Fred Tomlinson Singers to perform
The Lumberjack Song. There was something about seeing the members of Monty Python together to pay their tribute for Harrison for if not for him then likely the film
Life Of Brian would never had been made and maybe perhaps Python's legacy would never had reached the major heights were it not for Harrison fighting tooth and nail to bring them to the top.
After that, the rest of the concert featured 'George's Band' and included the surviving members of the three remaining members of The Beatles, Harrison's son Dhani Harrison, as well as musicians Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Billy Preston (this marking his brief reunion with The Beatles), Jools Holland, Albert Lee, Sam Brown, Gary Brooker, Joe Brown, Ray Cooper, Andy Fairweather-Low, Marc Mann, Dave Bronze, Klaus Voormann, Jim Keltner and several other musicians who had appeared on Harrison's recordings over the years. The show would show how quite vast the line up was in which the show would feature the unexpected appearance of Nirvana, the youngest band there be told, in which would have to their name as the final band that Harrison would produce a record for and would pay tribute by performing
Art of Dying and
Hear My Lord staying faithful to both numbers in which were both well received despite some scepticism to them being there.
Other acts there would all perform keeping faithful to all of Harrison's songs such as Jeff Lynne performed
I Want to Tell You and
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth); Eric Clapton on
If I Needed Someone and
Beware of Darkness; Tom Petty on
I Need You and
Taxman; Petty, Lynne, Dhani Harrison, and Keltner all then on
Handle With Care (reuniting most of the surviving Traveling Wilburys except for Bob Dylan); Joe Brown with
Here Comes The Sun and finally Clapton and Preston on
Isn't It a Pity. After this, it was time for the three Beatles to take their part in the show in which Ringo Starr would appear first in which he would perform
I'll Still Love You [8] and
Photograph; Lennon would then take his bow in which he would perform
Blow Away and
Cheer Down before letting McCartney take his part in the show by performing
For You Blue and
All Things Must Pass before both he and Lennon along with Clapton would perform
Something (McCartney would open with a solo ukulele accompaniment, an instrument that was one of Harrison's favourites, that would shift into a full band version featuring Clapton).
The rest of the show would see The Beatles as well the rest of the large supergroup to play out the rest of the show with numbers like
Horse To The Water, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, My Sweet Lord and a group performance of
Brainwashed [9]. Finally, Joe Brown would close the show out with an emotional rendition of
I'll See You in My Dreams on ukulele and with that, it really was the end of an era that would be really one of the greatest tribute shows ever performed. Towards the end of the show as many of the performers would embrace one another to congratulate each other, Brian Epstein would emerge from the wings to embrace Lennon, McCartney and Starr in which was really a tearjerker moment given how this really was it; the end of The Beatles and of an era and the tears in Epstein's eyes showed what this meant for him.
As others left the stage and the audience would soon leave, Epstein would, after telling others to give him a private moment to quiet reflection, stand by the wings looking out at the slowly emptying Albert Hall with him looking back on the life he had done what this moment really meant for him. Others who were looking at him from a far could see his eyes glazed and a thoughtful look on his face as no doubt he was reflecting everything that had come to this moment. They might had been any thought really from all the way back from going down into that cellar full of noise in which he first met The Beatles in the Cavern, the rise of Beatlemania and the conquest of America, the studio years, the rise of Apple Corps as a huge media empire over the past thirty years, given Harrison his voice in which the rest of the band didn't seem to have time for him, all the other acts he had signed on for Apple, the many avenues that Epstein had taken the company away from just The Beatles to finally this moment here.
He really had done it all, he had succeeded in manage the world's greatest rock band to levels of height that surely no one else would ever reach yet there was a bittersweet aspect to it all that it was all over. Epstein felt he could keep going but he knew his mind might have been still sharp yet his body likely wasn't the same as before so what could he do now? Actually, what
was there left to do now for him? He wouldn't say what he thought to anyone that evening as he finally left the stage and went backstage to meet with everyone else, half of which all owed it to Epstein for signing them onto Apple Records and given them the faith to reach their own level of success. But then again, who knows, maybe Epstein would find the next Beatles though it was a long shot for sure but now...maybe it was time to finally put his feet up and retire with grace?
One thing was for certain though, with the empire he had helped create from music, media, theme parks and computer that all were connected to him and that much of the world all took for granted, Sir Brian Epstein's fingerprints of that he had been part of now seemed to affect everyone and that maybe his legacy would be looked on far more than just The Beatles' gay manager but instead as a maverick in the entertainment world? Who was to say that anyone else would have the same sort of legacy as what Epstein would ever have? Who is to say had he died from that near overdose in 1967 that everything else still would have happened? It is a world that no one can barely comprehend how different it would be. Yes, there was only one Beatles, but there surely was only one Sir Brian Samuel Epstein OBE who without him, the world would have been a very different and worse place without him.
The End
[1] As with OTL.
[2] Same thing happened during the OTL Anthology though for John, ITTL it is shifted to Harrison instead.
[3] The song is mostly the same though is now a Starkey/Lennon/McCartney piece.
[4] One of the lost Lennon songs gets their moment to shine on here.
[5] Very much the last Beatles song like with OTL though much earlier given it is ITTL the last Beatles song recorded for that album.
[6] Pretty much the same concert from OTL though with some different acts given who Harrison would have interacted with ITTL such as Nirvana.
[7] Epstein takes the place of Clapton as the master of ceremonies ITTL which is pretty much fitting for him.
[8] Takes the place of Honey Don't as there is more Harrison songs to play here.
[9] With Wah-Wah never being written ITTL, it instead is played with a big jam version of Brainwashed which with that band would have sounded epic.
Well then, this is it, the final chapter of The Fingerprints Of Epstein, perhaps the most extensive Beatles TL ever written if I dare say so? Well, it is hard to imagine that when I started this, it was only done as a world to write up the fantasy Beatles albums I had come up with over a year ago to give them a reason to exist and in some ways it is kind of ironic to being like why JRR Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings being as just a world for his Elvish language to exist the same way as I wrote up this fantasy Beatles albums too in a way. But yeah, I will admit it does hit you when you realise that a huge TL you have written for all this time is now at an end is a feeling you don't know what to think.
After seeing all the Beatles TL's over the years, I will admit I never thought I'd actually do one myself but alas I've only just not only done one but completed it which is kind of crazy. However, this would not had been possible with all the support each and everyone of you who had read this from the very start to now the final chapter is something I can only thank you all from the bottom of my heart as you all kept me going to get this TL to where it is now. Anyway, it isn't quite the end yet as we have two epilogue chapters (or rather I should say Eppy-logue in terms of who the main character of this TL is) being a picture update and finally the true final chapter which takes up to the near present day of 2018 which is where this TL will finally end. So once again, thank you all for the support and there is still one last hurrah to come next and the question then would be a case of what now?
I have ideas of starting a spin-off TL is demand is there for an interacted TL in which I'd like to imagine you, the reader to write up chapters of how ITTL you or maybe write up a fictional character of some kind, would be like during the events of ITTL such as who they are, where they come from and how this world affects them. This is just an idea floating about that I need time to think about, maybe in the next update so once more...see you all next time for the last two updates for this TL.