Book contents
- The Beatles in Context
- Composers In Context
- The Beatles in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Part I Beatle People and Beatle Places
- Part II The Beatles in Performance
- Part III The Beatles on TV, Film, and the Internet
- Part IV The Beatles’ Sound
- Part V The Beatles as Sociocultural and Political Touchstones
- Part VI The Beatles’ Critical Reception and Cultural Legacy
- Chapter 27 Phantom Band: The Beatles after the Beatles
- Chapter 28 The Beatles, Apple, and the Business of Music Publishing
- Chapter 29 Rebooting Beatlemania in the Digital Age
- Chapter 30 The Beatles in the New Millennium
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 27 - Phantom Band: The Beatles after the Beatles
from Part VI - The Beatles’ Critical Reception and Cultural Legacy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2020
- The Beatles in Context
- Composers In Context
- The Beatles in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Part I Beatle People and Beatle Places
- Part II The Beatles in Performance
- Part III The Beatles on TV, Film, and the Internet
- Part IV The Beatles’ Sound
- Part V The Beatles as Sociocultural and Political Touchstones
- Part VI The Beatles’ Critical Reception and Cultural Legacy
- Chapter 27 Phantom Band: The Beatles after the Beatles
- Chapter 28 The Beatles, Apple, and the Business of Music Publishing
- Chapter 29 Rebooting Beatlemania in the Digital Age
- Chapter 30 The Beatles in the New Millennium
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
The word “phantom” conjures images of something elusory, abstract, or dream-like. A phantom may be a figment of one’s imagination, something we think we see but are not quite sure. Phantoms can be fleeting yet haunting, apparitions that resemble real life and impact us in some way. Phantoms may influence how we see, feel, and engage or understand the world. In what follows, I will explore the idea that the Beatles’ in their post-Beatles lives were a phantom band, an illusory apparition of their lives while on stage or in the studio as the Fab Four. Although Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr struck out in different directions to establish their own individual identities and careers in their post-Beatles years, they still played in tandem, performing with and against one another as they learned to do from their early days in Liverpool and Hamburg.
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- The Beatles in Context , pp. 291 - 302Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020