Can someone please explain why bickering drama consumes so many bands and groups? Is it punishing tour schedules combined with the pressures to succeed and squeeze musical verve out of emotional cavities that have long run dry? Is it pure egotism and how it connects to those driven toward the performing arts? Is it differing visions for the future interwoven with the inherent difficulties of managing a multi-person creative project? "Yes" to all of the above. Sometimes it seems inevitable when a band breaks up, sometimes it's eye-rolling, sometimes it's exasperating, and sometimes it's actually quite sad. And sometimes, it's nothing anyone in the band ever wanted.
Take the most famous breakup of all, the Beatles. They split up in 1970, a mere seven years after their first album, 1963's "P

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