25 New Beatles Albums, Part 3

As I focus my ‘brand’ for The Reincarnation Chronicles, my past life as a musician dims.  Before I give up writing about music and dance as much as before, let me complete a promise to share my playlists for fantasy albums by The Beatles.  Fantasy because the albums would come from after the band’s break-up, using the best songs from their solo albums in any given year.

Given the great response to my initial post-Beatles article, which you can revisit here, you asked for more playlists, and I delivered the albums from the 70s and 80s, before boomers strayed, and after John’s death.  George doubled his contribution from the Beatle albums, especially with all the great songs from All Things Must Pass and Living in the Material World.

There’s more fantasy albums from the 90s to the present.  Those years saw George’s death and some great final tunes, Ringo’s re-emergence from recovery to become a wonderful songwriter, and Paul’s continual lyricism, uber-musicianship, and experimentation.  It gets to be a challenge to include John and George on the albums, but the new Ringo output, electronica from Paul, and The Traveling Wilbury’s (with Dylan and Roy Orbison), make for a couple double albums.

A friend recently asked if there is a connection between my interest in the Beatles’ afterlife and The Reincarnation Chronicles series.  I spent two years obsessed with discovering every song the boys recorded after their break-up, choosing the greatest hits, and organizing and re-organizing them into fantasy albums.  I didn’t stop until there were 25 albums.  What does that have to do with writing an 11 book series with 1001 chapters and spending my free time organizing and re-organizing the 101 worlds that contain all the past life stories?  You tell me.

If you don’t know a song on the previous playlists, sample it on iTunes, Spotify, or Apple Music. If you’re curious about any of the post-80s playlists, shoot me a Comment, and I’ll be happy to email something to you.