The Beatles - Blast From Your Past 1975

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     1975 saw the release of John Lennon's Rock n Roll, an album of cover versions of rock songs from the late fifties and early sixties. McCartney's Venus and Mars hit the record shelves, Harrison had a new album called Extra Texture and a compilation album of Starr's music, called Blast From Your Past was put out. The story behind Lennon's album involves lawsuits, stolen master tapes, re-recordings and an album released without John's approval. Look it up. It is an interesting story and could make an HBO movie.
      For this what-if, I propose that the Beatles put out an old-time rock n roll album so I used tracks from different years from the other three. Since Paul put out an album in 1988 similar to John's I used four tracks from that. John and Paul both covered "Ain't That a Shame" and I chose Paul's version, also his "Twenty Flight Rock" (which he first played for John when they met), "Lawdy, Miss Clawdy" and "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday". I used John's "Stand By Me" (which was released as a single), "Ya Ya", "You Can't Catch Me" (the song that led to the lawsuit) and "Slippin' and Slidin'". Ringo gets three songs, two of which appear on 1975 collection, "Lipstick Traces" from his 1978 album Bad Boy, "You'r Sixteen" from 1973's RINGO and "Only You" from 1974's Goodnight Vienna. George has two: his cover of Rudy Clark's 1962 hit, "Got My Mind Set on You" and his own version of "Bye Bye, Love" from 1974's Dark Horse.
      Even if this isn't how you would do a 1975 Beatles album. I think you could still enjoy listening to it.

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