Albert Goldman's Clues of 1968, Part 2

Continuing with my last post, Albert Goldman, author and professor wrote a critique of Hunter Davies' Beatles biography in the October, 1968 Vogue magazine.  Goldman's biography of John Lennon was published in November,1988.  Goldman said he spent six years researching Lennon's life for the book and conducted 1,200 interviews during that time, so my guess is that Goldman had a keen interest in The Beatles and by 1968 must have had a fair grasp of the dramas and machinations happening within the lives of The Beatles--by my count--eight young men total.

So in the article Goldman says:

"Blown off all the charts of traditional and contemporary life by their stupendous success, the SURVIVING [my emphasis] Beatles lead a Robinson Crusoe existence, struggling to live alone on their little islands of idleness."

He's talking about the four Beatles written about by Davies in 1968:  the last group with a new Paul and a new John introduced in late 1966.

So I take it Goldman means there were other Beatles no longer in the group.  And he also could have meant literally that certain of the other Beatles were by the publishing of the book and the article, DEAD.