The short but winding road that made the Beatles the greatest recording act and pop-culture sensation of all time ended publicly on this day in history, April 10, 1970.
Paul McCartney announced a "break with the Beatles" in press materials that accompanied the scheduled release of his first solo album a week later.
His announcement confirmed months of rumors about the band's dissolution.
"Personal differences, business differences, musical differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family," McCartney said in the statement.
Not one of the Liverpool lads had yet turned 30 when the Beatles imploded after a brief but spectacular seven-year period of prolific creative genius perhaps unmatched in human history.
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