Like Some Forgotten Dream
What if the Beatles hadn't split up?

Before the Beatles broke up John suggested their next album should be made up of 4 songs each by John, Paul and George, with two from Ringo. The author of this book speculates what that album would’ve been like and using only songs that were written before the end of the Beatles. The first half of t......more

One of the more enduring what ifs in pop culture is “What if the Beatles kept making music together,” and Daniel Rachel’s book is a good take on that idea, although in the end I wondered if it does much more than submit one fan’s fantasy track list for debate. For the first 140 pages he delves into t......more

Book reviews 3/2022 - 'Like some forgotten dream' Danel Rachel I bought this in my great 'Boxing day Waterstones half-price hardbacks book swoop' - and it was probably still overpriced on that basis. I am a huge Beatles geek. HUGE. I had just watched 'Get Back' (twice) on Disney+ and felt I might en......more

Note: I received an ARC of this book via NetGalley in return for an honest review. The conceit is weak; as other reviewers have said, it’s basically one fan’s theory put up for debate. But as an oral history of the Beatles’ breakup and their attitudes towards themselves and one another in the immedi......more

The title promises new discoveries but fails to deliver. Beatles fans will learn nothing new from this. The ‘lost’ album turns out to be a collection of solo tracks released by the Fab 4 in the late sixties and early seventies. The idea that each group member would have one side of a double album de......more