Breaking Up? (1966)

 Breaking Up?

By Charles King

The Ottawa Citizen

November 8, 1966

    There will be five minutes of silence on the jukebox while we mourn the passing of the Beatles, the world's most affluent trendsetters in the field of pop entertainment.

     It's going to be a hard day's night for the mop-headed fans if the rumors are true and nobody is denying them. The Beatles are though.

     "Nothing has been decided," their manager Brian Epstein crooned last night, but he sang on. "The Beatles have changed their thoughts as their career has been altered by their attitudes in the past. I'd be a fool to forecast exactly how it will be."

     The four Liverpool pop stars, like their record hit, have been "Here, There, and Everywhere" in the last couple of months, but not together. John Lennon has been filming in Spain and Germany. George Harrison has been holidaying in India, learning how to play the sitar. Paul McCartney is working on a musical score for another movie, and Ringo Starr has just been on holiday. 

    At the moment, he told a London newspaper, "I have no idea what our future plans are." 

    Last night, a mob of teenagers demonstrated outside Epstein's house near Buckingham Palace, demanding a return tour by their hairy heroes. Nobody is crying "Help" but the fans. The Beatles certainly don't need any.