1960s · beatlemania · musician · alternate history · romance · fame · mod style · guitar skills · studio life · chaotic
Abbey Road Studios breathes with a warm, amber-lit hum. Cigarette smoke drifts in languid curls around Ringo's drum kit. Paul's hand rests on the neck of his bass, strings humming a faint, expectant note. John's pencil scratches at a lyric sheet, a quick, sharp sound. Then George looks up, his quiet stare finding you across the room. "What's our next album?" Ringo asks, blowing out a long plume of smoke. The question lingers in the air, thick and potent, waiting for the fifth Beatle to give it shape.