![]() ![]() Once There Was a Way: What if The Beatles Stayed Together? is a story of another reality, the one we wish had happened, where the Fab Four chose to work it out rather than let it be. ![]() The fact that their contemporaries like the Rolling Stones are still playing today makes their ending even more painful. After seven years as the most popular rock-and-roll group the world has ever seen, the Beatles - torn apart by personal and creative differences - called it quits in 1970, never to play together again. It's a great new adventure full of twists and turns that never were, but might have been." ![]() "We know The Beatles let it be, but what if they worked it out instead? This book gives life to every fan's fantasy. The next novel from author Bryce Zabel, whose debut, Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas? won the coveted Sidewise Award for Alternate History. ![]()
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