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Linda McCartney

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WP:Beatles project

User:Moxy has amended the Beatles project banner to remove all the albums and song from related projects. His rationale for this change is Wikipedia:WikiProject coordination, which would actually say there cannot be co-ordination between projects. FWIW, It means every Beatle album and song (and any album or song or related category remotely connected to the Beatles have now been removed from those projects. A discussion has already been started by me at User_talk:Moxy#Template:WikiProject_The_Beatles:_Difference_between_revisions. Anybody else have an opinion? This will also be posted at song and album projects --Richhoncho (talk) 22:23, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

*Note Moxy has now undone his edit which caused all the problems, but the conversation should continue in case others are now of the same view as Moxy. --Richhoncho (talk) 23:40, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Link to the discussion. Lik to the banner. --kingboyk (talk) 19:54, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

The Beatles in fiction

I'd like to suggest a new The Beatles in fiction article, probably mainly in list form. I don't mean stuff like regular biopics, more stuff like Stephen King's 11/22/63, where in an alternative history where Kennedy wasn't assassinated, The Beatles reform in 1980 for a reunion concert which is attacked by terrorists due to which John doesn't die but Paul goes blind. There's another recent alternate history novel (forgot the title, duh!) dealing with Kennedy having started a short nuclear war with the Soviet Union in 1963 and the book deals with the aftermath in the 1970s or 80s, and it's mentioned in passing that The Beatles never went to devastated America, but their song catalogue seems largely the same when at a UK dinner party, Penny Lane is being played over the house stereo. In the beginning of Robert Harris's Fatherland taking place in 1964, it is mentioned that young German students start to grow their hair out and listen to "a Liverpool band that had played in Hamburg just a few years ago". Or there's this one sci-fi short story Broken Stairways, Walls of Time[1] by Lee Killough, where Paul is still alive in a future where they have holographic 3D television and holographic AI house servants, and he is mentioned as having written the lyrics to a musical song by the first-person narrator.

Any thoughts on this, guys? --2003:71:4E03:6440:50F3:8E2D:CF1C:6F5F (talk) 04:56, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Seems like a reasonable idea for an article. But I predict that it will soon become inundated with books/films/stories/television episodes where the Beatles are mentioned only briefly. You might want to give some thought as to the criteria for inclusion in the article. NewYorkActuary (talk) 05:17, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Here's another, more substantial find: With a Little Help From Her Friends by Michael Bishop. It's a sci-fi story first published in 1984 that takes place in 2013 and is about a TV reporter interviewing an old lady named Eleanor Riggins that has survived a South-American torture camp only by the power of songs by The Beatles that gave her and her other inmates hope. In response to her touching story, the TV station and a newspaper offer her to pay for a re-union concert of The "Threetles" just for her ("one of them is living in Britain, one alternatively lives in Scotland and on the US west coast, and one of them resides in a villa in Mare Imbrium on the moon. The low gravity remedies his ill health and frailty.").

Ringo is the Beatle on the moon and he's the first to arrive for preparative talks. When he and Paul meet in California while George is pretty much "skyping" in from London, Ringo is all for it in the name of peace & love, but Paul hates the idea because the people "definitely don't wanna see desperate old farts on a stage" and that John would've hated it too. George doesn't say much, what little he does say is mostly deep and cryptic, but he says that John "is most likely beyond caring at this point". For the concert, John's place is taken by a "digitally aged" hologram, and their setlist is partially broken down as "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Yesterday", "All you need is love", (then they joke they can't play "When I'm 64" because they're too old for that), "Love Me Do" (where Ms. Riggins is invited up on the stage to play the harmonica part), "Eleanor Rigby" (where Paul has changed the lyrics to tell about Ms. Riggins and her shining example), and "Happy Xmas (War is over)".

Oh, and there's also Sergeant Pepper Variations by Howard Roller and Parke Godwin, concerning a psychic who witnesses jam sessions of dead musicians in the afterlife, where John Lennon has found a rather fruitful writing partnership with Johann Sebastian Bach. After the psychic has clumsily tried to play Bach's variations of songs from the Pepper album on a piano, she tells the last remaining reporter that didn't run away at the obnoxious-sounding premise right away that she can hardly play it, because her hands are hardly as big as Bach's when he's playing on the afterlife harmonium, where this little-known fact of Bach's huge pranks already during his lifetime convinces him that she's telling the truth. --2003:EF:13C1:CE85:B8FC:3669:A57D:3378 (talk) 18:31, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

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Specifying song by member singing.

So I spent hours creating the category The Beatles songs sung by...…….. and I indicated member on mic and all my edits were deleted. Seems like a common sense idea to have a category like that. If you wanted to know how many were sung by a particular member, you can find out with ease. But you people like to screw me so the edits were wiped out.--68.192.236.111 (talk) 04:07, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

I suspect you will find it was not personal. I would suggest taking time to discuss large efforts like that before under-taking them. What may appear common sense to you may not make sense to everyone. Categories serve certain purposes and this may not be appropriate. --John (User:Jwy/talk) 05:08, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

I'm not sure the reversions were done by anybody who loiters here, but this seems a reasonable place to discuss creating such categories. I quite like the idea as I think it would be of use to some - possibly many - readers, but I'm not sure if they would be justifiable under current categorisation guidelines, which I am not up to speed with. --kingboyk (talk) 19:48, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Beatles' museums on the List of music museums

Hi there, I have introduced the List of music museums. There remain three Beatles' museums unwritten, that meanwhile have an article in another language:

• Buenos Aires, Argentina: Museo Beatle
• Halle, Germany: Beatles-Museum Halle
• Alkmaar, Netherlands: Beatles Museum Alkmaar
• Eger, Hungary: Egri Road Beatles Múzeum, has been written today by me for this project.

Are there people interested in writing one or all of these unwritten museums in English? It would help your project as well as the List of music museums a lot! I hope so Ymnes (talk) 19:35, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Community reassessment: Jim and Mary McCartney

Jim and Mary McCartney, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Trillfendi (talk) 01:52, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Paul is dead

A discussion about this article is underway at Talk:Paul is dead#Clues again. Any editors who are interested, please feel free to participate. Thanks, JG66 (talk) 13:27, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

New film

Hey, just wanted to give you guys a headsup on this new film: Yesterday (2019 film), so you can properly categorize it and link to it from relevant places (even if it may only be something like Template:The Beatles filmography and videography). It's not only about their songs, apparently Paul and Ringo also appear in the film in person, or at least that's what the credits are saying and what the trailer is suggesting. --46.93.158.170 (talk) 16:07, 13 February 2019 (UTC)