{"id":18321,"date":"2013-04-11T09:50:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T13:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=18321"},"modified":"2013-04-11T09:50:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T13:50:54","slug":"the-beatles-mortiversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-beatles-mortiversary\/","title":{"rendered":"It Was 43 Years Ago Yesterday: The Beatles&#8217; Mortiversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18322\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/paulquits.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18322\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18322\" alt=\"Quitter!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/paulquits-300x188.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/paulquits-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/paulquits.jpg 486w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quitter!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was 43 years ago yesterday that <a title=\"Press release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesbible.com\/1970\/04\/10\/paul-mccartney-announces-the-beatles-split\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong>&#8216;s self-interview<\/a> that accompanied the release of his first solo album effectively announced the beginning of the end of The Beatles.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: Do you foresee a time when Lennon-McCartney becomes an active songwriting partnership again?<br \/>\nA: No.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That was some way to announce the end of a band! Did <strong>Paul Weller<\/strong> make some self-important splash when he decided to end The Jam? Didn&#8217;t they put out an EP announcing the break up and coming farewell tour? A few songs into <em>The Gift<\/em> I&#8217;d already broken up with them.<\/p>\n<p>I recall <strong>Little Richard<\/strong> and <strong>David Bowie<\/strong> each broke up with themselves in dramatic, <em>once-and-for-all<\/em> fashion a few times. What other artists staged memorable break ups?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 43 years ago yesterday that Paul McCartney&#8216;s self-interview that accompanied the release of his first solo album effectively announced the beginning of the end of The Beatles. Q: Do you foresee a time when Lennon-McCartney becomes an active songwriting partnership again? A: No. That was some way to announce the end of a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-beatles-mortiversary\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}