Forget much of what you knew about the breakup of the Beatles...

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22. The tapes

are what they are and only have whatever importance can be attached to them by Lewisohn/the Guardian author claiming that everybody thought it was all the opposite of what the tapes say and now this is setting us straight. I'm simply telling you that he is wrong in claiming that everybody has always thought or known what he claims these "books" say. So Lewisohn has tapes that are of mild interest and he monetizes them by claiming some grand contradictions to "books". I've seen this before. It's one of the things that comes from being old enough to have lived through it as it happened. 50 years from now someone will come along with some thing they've stumbled upon and claim it changes everything. It's been going on about bands and events for a very long time. It's not a matter of reiterating what's been written. Carefully re-read my OP. The assumption stated by the Guardian author, and apparently Lewisohn, is incorrect. We have not all thought it is was the way they state.