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The Beatles in the late 70's- Disco. LOL
The Beatles in the 80s- Confused
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Ermm Who knows?
 
But judging by the later solo efforts of all of the former Beatles, I would say not. (Of course, that depends upon your definition of "prog.")
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Originally posted by mrcozdude mrcozdude wrote:

Weather the beatles went prog or not.The mothers still would of changed the world.
Ermm I wonder whether you feel you have weathered the Beatles.
 
Shocked And of course the mothers of us all would have changed the world (and many diapers in the process) no matter what. GeekWink
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yeah my feeling is that come 72, 73 they would have made a prog-ish album. I dont see them having gone to glitter rock, but my how diff. the world might be if the Beatles went another 5 years and kept experimenting.
 
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I think that the band probably followed their paths not as a prog band, but I think if they come till the '73they probably fell in temptation to make one more conceitual album :D
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"What is prog!? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me.... no more"

at least I amuse myself.



Seriosuly though, they probably would have done a side long track at some point. They wouldn't have stayed together at that point that.
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

I've pondered this much and my feeling is that if you take the best of the solo work from Lennon, Harrison and McCartney, you get a glimpse of what the albums would've been like..  as far as becoming 'prog', no not in the traditional sense, in fact knowing the Beatles they probably would've done their own thing, each new album a fresh statement unlike what others were doing.





ah, but who knows, maybe one or 2 of those albums would be competing for the #1 spot on the top 100 list on the home page right now, had they been made. The band would probably have been in a different mindset if they were still together as a band.

not to mention those 'what is prog?' discussions would be even more complex.
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Weather the beatles went prog or not.The mothers still would of changed the world.



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I've pondered this much and my feeling is that if you take the best of the solo work from Lennon, Harrison and McCartney, you get a glimpse of what the albums would've been like..  as far as becoming 'prog', no not in the traditional sense, in fact knowing the Beatles they probably would've done their own thing, each new album a fresh statement unlike what others were doing.
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imo they went from art-rock in the late 60s to pop , blues & rock'n'roll in the 70s, so in no way they could have contributed more to the progressive movement...
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sorry if this has been done, but
 
we were discussing at work whether or not the Beatles would have started to make "prog" albums in the early 70's like many contemporaries did. I for one see it going either way. Let It Be was throwback, but the masterpieces like Sgt Peppers and MMT led the way for prog. The sum of what those for did on solo albums suggests that they wouldnt have, but with studio wizardry and the way those 4 made music, I think we missed out on maybe an even better prog masterpeice than DSOTM. I dunno, do you guys think they'd have gone there?
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