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The 1974 dissolution was a legal dissolution of The Beatles and Co., one of their legal entities. Specifically, a partnership set up basically as a tax shelter which received all non-publishing income and was owned 5% by each Beatle and 80% by Apple (itself owned 25% by each Beatle). While an important step in the breakup and legal drama, its dissolution (or continued existence until 1974) didn't really have any bearing on the Beatles as a recording or performing musical act (Which the "years active" field is for). It was only formed in 1967 (and their earlier partnership, The Beatles Ltd. was formed in 1963). The musical act the Beatles is not coterminous with a corporation they set up to receive revenue. Seltaeb Eht (talk) 19:32, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Songs modified after Lennon's death by the surviving Beatles are not considered part of their active years because the Beatles never worked together as a band on those songs. A number of their songs were remixed after the breakup, but they were not performed by the group as a whole. The last Beatles song recorded was I Me Mine in January 1970. At that point the band was a trio because Lennon had quit. Sundayclose (talk) 20:18, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No, The End is on Abbey Road which was recorded in 1969. Look, read the articles on these songs instead of speculating. All of this is well documented. The issue isn't when they all four recorded a song together. It's what the last song recorded by the Beatles is, which is I Me Mine. The band still existed as a trio in 1970 when they recorded I Me Mine. Sundayclose (talk) 03:27, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No one records after they are dead. The posthumous contributions were made by the surviving band members after the Beatles as a band no longer existed. Sundayclose (talk) 03:27, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This exact thing was discussed just over a year ago. At present, it is still at the top of this talk page. The consensus then, as it has been for many years, is to leave the infobox as 1960–1970. Tkbrett (✉)03:59, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Missing: How Epstein's attention was drawn to the Beatles
I wonder why this story is not told here, where a lad requested "My Bonnie by the Beatles" to Epstein in his NEMS record store? Was it just never mentioned yet, or was it mentioned but deleted because it was considered too anecdotal? The story is told in the wiki article: The Beatles in Hamburg J.Moondog (talk) 10:21, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I just realized that this missing section is oddly found complete in the article "The Beatles in Hamburg". I wrote in the "Talk" of that article that I was planning to move it from the Hamburg article to the main article, here, J.Moondog (talk) 05:58, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It is strange that Jimmie Nicol subbed in The Beatles on six days and is listed at the top of Template:The Beatles, whereas Preston recorded and performed with them over ten days and is not listed there. WWGB (talk) 09:43, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Tkbrett, Strange that all of a sudden, after close to a week, a massive revert was performed without explanation, with a vague reason that it was not readable enough? Can you explain? J.Moondog (talk) 03:58, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It isn't strange at all; this is a Featured Article where the standard for writing is higher. Your edits introduced arbitrary paragraph and section breaks which made it less readable. In another case, you added an unsourced one-sentence paragraph. Tkbrett (✉)15:20, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
level-3 vital article is rated FA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
