Chapter 8 & 9
Wonderwall Music
- George Harrison's first solo album and film score for the movie Wonderwall
Linda Eastman
- Paul McCartney's girlfriend after Jane Asher who was a well established photographer from New York - They would marry and have children - Linda would later join Paul on stage in Wings - She died of cancer in the early 1990s
Abbey Road
- The name of the last Beatle's album, which was the name of the street EMI Studios, was on. - Eventually EMI studios were changed to Abbey Road Studios
Let It Be
- originally titled Get Back, the documentary and album that was McCartney's attempt to get the band to return to their roots - It was original shelved, but then released when the Beatles broke up a year later
Apple Corps
- the company the Beatles created that housed their own label, electronics division, film division, boutique, and also served as a tax shelter
Moog Synthesizer
- the exotic instrument brought to the Abbey Road sessions by George Harrison the twas invented by Robert Moog - It was a portable keyboard that ran on oscillators and sound generators
Hey Jude/Revolution
- the first hit single released on Apple Records - It would be the biggest selling single of the Beatles' catalogue
Billy Preston
- the keyboard player George Harrison Brough into the Let It Be Sessions in an attempt to ease tensions within the band
Allen Klein
- the manager John Lennon decided would take care of his affairs - Harrison and Starr sided with Lennon to have Klein represent the Beatles, but McCartney wanted Lee Eastman, a New York entertainment lawyer and father of his soon to be wife Linda, to manage the group - This led to further divisions in the band
The White Album
- the nickname for the Beatles' double album named simply the Beatles that was released in November 1968
Phil Spector
- the producer known for the "wall of sound" that added strings and voices to the final cut of Let It Be before its release, much to McCartney's dissatisfaction
Eric Clapton
- the renown British guitarist from Yardbirds and Cream that was befriended by George Harrison and brought to the White Album sessions to record Harrison's While My Guitar Gently Weeps. - He was the first outsider-rock start to record a prominent musical contribution on a Beatles track
Rishikesh, India
- where the Beatles followed George Harrison's lead to participate in a course in meditation led by the Maharishi in 1968
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
the Hindu swami leading a spiritual movement in transcendental meditation that influenced the Beatles
Yoko Ono
the Japanese avant-garde artist who John Lennon left his wife Cynthia for, and unwittingly interfered with the Beatles' solidarity
Lady Madonna
the first number hit for the Beatles in the winter of 1968 that signaled a return to "basics" after their psychedelic experiment
Ian McMillan
the photographer who shot the famous Abbey Road album cover with the Beatles walking across the street of the same name