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Published · transcript-backedBob Spitz: prediction
13 May 2026 Conversations with Tyler Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and the Art of Biography
“I think maybe if they had stayed together, they might have lost some of that spark.”
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- 13 May 2026
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Let’s say we put you in charge of social welfare. Was it good that the Beatles split up when they did? I mean for the world, not for them. Perhaps it was. I always felt that a lot of people run out of steam after three or four albums. If you look at Bob Dylan and Neil Young and Van Morrison and The Who and maybe even The Rolling Stones, after a couple years, after maybe four or five albums, they start trying to duplicate themselves. The Beatles gave us everything they had, and then they stopped. We have 230-some songs, perhaps the most remarkable songbook, aside from Hammerstein and Rodgers, that we know of from the 1900s on. The Beatles songbook I would put up against anybody’s. I think maybe if they had stayed together, they might have lost some of that spark. Think how many more George songs we got from this split, or Paul songs for that matter.…
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