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Beatles never broke upIn case you are ever chasing a rabbit through the dessert, trip, and get transported to a parallel universe, here's what you'll need to know:

  • Ketchup on the Bizzaro-World is purple.
  • Technology in the alternate reality is advanced enough to mass market Parallel Travel Machines, but hasn't produced a sound recording format with better fidelity than a cassette tape.
  • The Beatles are still around. And their post-Let It Be material sounds exactly like a mash-up of various songs from the familiar post-Beatles output of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr that we have here on our Earth.

This is all explained in greater detail in the 2,275 word (whoa.) preamble to the 11 MP3s of a never-before-heard-on-Earth Beatles' album available on The Beatles Never Broke Up.

The 11 fictitious Beatles' tracks are skillfully put together, pretty fun to listen to, and available to download for free. The Sci-Fi context, though, is weird, and a little disturbing. I mean a world in which the Beatles still exist is all well and good, but a world without Paul McCartney and Wings!? I shudder to think. Did I mention that ketchup there is apparently purple!? Just what kind of a madcap wacky freak zones are in our midst? There is no mention whether submarines are still yellow.


Take a listen to track 2 -- Talking to Myself: