stackyFACTSIn 1967, The Beatles decided they wanted a grittier follow-up to Help!
In 1967, The Beatles decided they wanted a grittier follow-up to Help! and inexplicably hired subversive playwright Joe Orton. He handed them a chaotic script called Up Against It, featuring the Fab Four committing assassinations, engaging in political treason, and sharing a single bed with a cross-dressing woman. The band's management furiously rejected the manuscript, and Orton was tragically bludgeoned to death by his lover just months later.
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