Side A
Artist	Song
Beatles Recording Collective (BRC): John Lennon	Instant Karma
BRC: Paul McCartney	Every Night
BRC: Geroge Harrison	What is Life
BRC: Ringo Starr	It Don't Come Easy (live)
BRC: John Lennon	Working Class Hero
BRC: George Harrison	Awaiting on You All
BRC: Paul McCartney	Teddy Boy
BRC: Yoko Ono	Why
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
BRC: John Lennon	Mother
BRC: Paul McCartney	Hot as Sun/Glass
BRC: George Harrison	Not Guilty
BRC: Paul McCartney	Maybe I'm Amazed
BRC: John Lennon	Remember
BRC: George Harrison	All Things Must Pass
BRC: Paul McCartney	Junk

Comment:

This is the follow-up the Beatles would have recorded to Let It Be. Now working on the nom de plume of the Beatles Recording Collective, the individual Beatles would have agreed to continue to release albums as a "collective," contributing individual or solo contributions on which other members of the Beatles might or might not collaborate. Their first such LP, released in late 1970 and containing many songs we still think of as classics, might have taken its name from the first cut, and would have been called Join the Human Race. This would've been heralded as a return to excellence after the controversial Let It Be, and possibly compared to The White Album due to the vastly different directions the band members were taking.

And in then controversial but magnanimous move, all Beatles agreed to allow contributions--even solo performances--by spouses and girlfriends. On this first outing, the Beatles Recording Collective includes Yoko Ono making her official Beatles record debut with "Why" (with John on blistering guitar and Ringo steady as every on the drum kit).

A rollercoaster of an album created in difficult times...

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