The Beatles - Live at Madison Square Garden

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     After 1975 John Lennon wanted to spend more time with his son Sean and less time with The Beatles but that didn't mean there wasn't a new album in 1976. After recording Blast From Your Past, McCartney suggested a tour again. They settled on one live performance at the end of 1975 in New York City so John could go back to the Dakota afterwards. In this alternate reality a live album of the event would released in 1976.
     In reality, John joined Elton John at Madison Square Garden for three songs on 28 November 1974. All three songs can be found on disc three of the Lennon box set from 1990. Paul played the Garden with his band Wings in May of 1976. Selections from the tour were on the triple album Wings Over America. George Harrison played with Ravi Shankar at the Garden in December of 1974. Unfortunately, no album was put out of the concert.
     For this fictional album I started of with "Be Bop A Lula" and the playlist has a video by Neil A. that combined John and Paul's vocals. I pulled "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Whatever gets You Through the Night" from John's 1974 performance as well as "Come Together" and "Imagine" from the Live in New York City album that was recorded at the Garden in 1972. From Wings Over America, I used "Yesterday", "Lady Madonna", "Band on the Run" and "Maybe I'm Amazed". For George I used "Something" from the Concert of Bangladesh and while compiling the playlist I found a great video from Aldo Vargas that has clips of all the Beatles playing. Also from Bangladesh is "Here Comes the Sun". The only other live album put out of George's was 1992's Live in Japan, so from that I picked "Dark Horse". From the 1997 record, Ringo Starr and His Third All-Starr Band Volume 1 I used "You're Sixteen" and "Yellow Submarine"

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