10 April 1970 A.D. GOOD NEWS: Head-Banger Paul McCartney Announces Beatles-Breakup—BAD NEWS: Individually, They’ll Keep Writing Braindead, Head-Banger & Illiterate Music
10 April 1970 A.D. GOOD NEWS: Head-Banger Paul McCartney Announces Beatles-Breakup—BAD NEWS: Individually, They’ll Keep Writing Braindead, Head-Banger & Illiterate Music Editors. “Paul McCartney announces the breakup of the Beatles.” History.com. 2009. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/paul-mccartney-announces-the-breakup-of-the-beatles . Accessed 9 Apr 2015. The legendary rock band the Beatles spent the better part of three years breaking up in the late 1960s, and even longer than that hashing out who did what and why. And by the spring of 1970, there was little more than a tangled set of business relationships keeping the group together. Each of the Beatles was pursuing his musical interests outside of the band, and there were no plans in place to record together as a group. But as far as the public knew, this was just a temporary state of affairs. That all changed on April 10, 1970, when an ambiguous Paul McCartney “self-interview” was seized upon by the i...