From music.Yahoo.com
Beatles fans spent the 1970s hoping the band might get back together, before John Lennon's death put the kibosh on that. But a few dreamers held out and spent the '80s floating the idea that the Beatles could still always reunite and tour with Julian Lennon, who was a huge MTV star at the time, subbing for his dad. Naïveté is stronger than death, right?
But now a new sort of hope has drifted entirely toward the Beatle descendants. Paul's son, 34-year-old singer/songwriter James McCartney, told the BBC that he'd be up for forming a band with some other musically inclined Scions of the Fabs. The group could be called "The Beatles—The Next Generation," the BBC interview helpfully suggested.
James even suggested that he'd had discussions with other Beatle offspring that could result in a quorum…. with one major holdout to contend with.
"I don't think it's something that Zak wants to do," said McCartney, referring to Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey, a highly successful drummer. "Maybe Jason would want to do it," he added, throwing the name of a lesser-known Starr offspring into the mix. "I'd be up for it. Sean (Lennon) seemed to be into it..."
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Wow. So we'd get a watered down Paul McCartney playing his insipid stuff, and Sean Lennon, who not only stands forever in his father's shadow, but Elliott Smith's too. Hopefully Dhani and Zak the most talented of the offspring don't budge on this cheesy idea. I think Oasis covered the 'modern Beatles' schtick in '94/95 and very well. This would be quite awkward.
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