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[mkrobinson]

Potential ideas for NANO

• 1965!AU: Paul (having already ended a short-term relationship with Jane Asher) and Linda encounter each other backstage at the Shea Stadium concert. Fed up with what he views as Brian's draconian attempts to control his life, Paul invites her and her daughter, two year old Heather Louise, to join him on the 1965 American tour. Paul's intentions are sincere: he wants to have a relationship with Linda and be her daughter's dad, however, this sudden grasp of maturity is viewed as a joke by his fellow Beatles and Brian. Tensions only grow further when Linda's father's connections to Capitol Records reveal that the record company has wanted Paul to do a solo album (due to the success of Yesterday) and Brian has taken it upon himself to refuse. Investigations into The Beatles contract reveal discrepancies between legalities and Brian's whims. This causes a rift within the band, as John takes Brian's side, while George (annoyed at what he perceives as a loss of money) sides with Paul. Ringo takes up the cause of the majority.

• 1976!AU: When Paul and Linda were in the states with their kids, planning their house rentals for their upcoming tour, Paul had dutifully gone to the Dakota to visit John, and he had invited him and Yoko to see the band perform at their concert at Madison Square. An invite mainly due to Paul's misguided sense of duty and obligation, he felt there was little chance of John or Yoko attending the concert. They had an infant, after all, and Yoko continued to hold a level of disdain for him and his family. The invitation had been Heather's idea, anyways. She seemed to have developed an unfortunate crush on the wayward ex-Beatle. Unfortunately for Paul, the concert ended, they walked off stage, and there was his thirteen year old daughter holding JOHN'S child. It appeared that Yoko had abandoned her husband and son, and John was as ill-equipped for being a father as he had been in 1963. He couldn't leave him to his own devices -- there was a child to think of. 
• Kidnapping!AU: The decision to allow The Beatles to take time off from the recording sessions of their latest record in 1969 was a decision that continued to haunt George Martin, though he had felt that the gesture was what was best to do at the time. Tensions between the foursome had been at a high, and it had been decided that a little holiday time had never hurt anyone. He had never anticipated that John and Yoko would have taken advantage of John's break from the studio and kidnapped their children. He still didn't understand how they'd disappeared without a trace. With John and Yoko missing, the state of the album remained in flux, and fast became the most infamous record he'd had the misfortune of producing. Though nominally still a band, the other Beatles hadn't recorded together since they'd cobbled the LP into a semblance of sense. Ringo and Maureen had taken their children and moved to LA, while George and Pattie had gone off traveling the globe in search of some sort of meaning (he'd never understood their mysticism beliefs). While Paul had remained in England, he certainly made no secret that he wanted nothing more to do with fame, preferring instead to live the life of a househusband, splitting his time between the various bases the McCartney family had set up. He'd heard rumors of a potential move to New York, where they could blend in with Linda's family. Whilst summering at Linda's brother's house at the Hamptons, young Heather encounters a familiar face. She was young when Julian disappeared -- and she barely knew him -- but if pressed, she'd swear it was him. Why would Julian be in the Hamptons? Have Yoko and John been hiding in plain sight the whole time? (this would be a series)