Beatles For Sale was the fourth studio album released by the Beatles in December 1964. Beatles Fire Sale is what this dad-joke-making crank calls the veritable explosion of Beatle-related, Beatle-adjacent, and Beatle-only-remotely-connected cash-ins occasioned by the 60th anniversary of their US invasion.
The first culprits are the remaining Beatles and their erstwhile bandmates' respective estates, who apparently found a tape of Lennon clearing his throat and decided to mate it with A.I. They thought so highly of the results that the “song” was incorporated into the soundtrack of the double-0-negative spy-spoof Argylle.
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