25 Worst Beatles Solo Albums

For all of their promise, the Beatles’ journey as solo acts was dotted with potholes.

George Harrison got here roaring into the ’70s, rapidly releasing two chart-topping post-breakup albums and three High singles – topped by the No. 1 smash “My Candy Lord.” Ringo Starr struck platinum with 1973’s Ringo and reeled off 4 straight High 10 songs, together with a pair of No. 1 hits.

In the meantime, former bandmate Paul McCartney was already experiencing the form of ups (1971’s Ram) and downs (Wild Life, additionally from 1971) that will outline his profession away from the Beatles. Equally, John Lennon adopted up his biggest-selling solo LP (1971’s Think about) with certainly one of his most poorly acquired albums.

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McCartney would in the end outsell all of them, whereas Starr suffered probably the most dramatic solo profession setbacks. Lennon’s after which Harrison’s careers had been reduce quick once they died too early.

At one level, Starr was truly with no label after being dropped by RCA following a string of duds within the late ’70s. However he ended up turning into the best of all of his former bandmates, commonly issuing albums and EPs after the flip of the century.

After they had been collectively, the Beatles appeared to metronomically launch one inventive triumph after one other. The identical could not all the time be mentioned of their solo information, even the hits. As you will see within the following record of 25 Worst Beatles Solo Albums, every of them stumbled (generally badly) with out the friction and spark that outlined their former group’s successes.