Albums and Tours = 'It's All Too Much'

If you think about it, The Beatles did a lot in a VERY short time span. Their schedules were time consuming and left little amount of times for breaks (until the later years). On any person, this would take a major toll on them, I have no idea how they were able to manage it for so long. Well I do know one way they did (drugs, drugs, and more drugs) but that's beside the point. 

This is how the years played out 

~1962: Tour, working on Please Please Me album

~1963: Tour, Please Please album released, With The Beatles album releases 

~1964: First American Tour, Europeian Tour, A Hard Day's Night album and movie

~1965: American Tour, Europeian Tour, Help! album and movie, Rubber Soul album

~1966: Last tours ever and Revolver album (this is when we start seeing the decline in their work)

~1967: Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour movie and album 

~1968: The Beatles (more formally known as the White Album), Yellow Submarine album and movie

~1969: Abbey Road album 

~1970: Let It Be album and movie

So basically from the years 1962-1968 they were working nonstop. Their manager Brian Epstein when he was alive really pushed John and Paul to even work on a new album/songs when they were on tiny breaks. 

One of my favorite things I've ever heard was in the George Harrison documentary "Living in The Material World", in which Paul explained, "Brian would give us these little weeks off, and we'd say 'yay!', but he would want us [him and John Lennon] to write an ablum in the week, which was ok with us. John would write a few songs, then I'd write a few songs and we'd have 8 done by the end of that week". 

Even though it took a toll on all of the lads, I feel like Ringo got hit with the extreme conditions the worst. He had already suffered with illness and sadly he had to miss some of a tour, then when they were in India, he had to leave first before any of the other Beatles.

They got the work done though, they stuck through everything and produced some of the most wonderful albums in music history. 

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