More parallel worlds

If you liked my earlier posting on slightly parallel universes, here are a few more ways in which just a few things might be wierdly different.

• Ian Gillan and Roger Glover never joined Deep Purple in 1969. The first lineup of Deep Purple with Rod Evans and Nick Simper made a further three albums, which, although better and more successful than the first three, failed to set the world on fire. After Deep Purple fizzled out in 1973, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore joined Thin Lizzy as the replacement for the recently-departed Eric Bell. This lineup only survived for three albums before the inevitable clash of egos, but those incendiary albums are universally hailed as classics of the hard-rock genre. Meanwhile Gillan and Glover remained in Episode Six, who finally made a commercial breakthrough in 1970, with a string of chart singles and several successful albums.
• The Beatles didn't split in 1970, and continued making albums throughout the 70s, only disbanding when John Lennon was murdered. Most of the best-known songs written during that period by Lennon or McCartney, such as "Imagine" appeared as Beatles songs. However, the Rolling Stones split up in 1971, although they would reform a decade later.
• L.Ron Hubbard never founded the Church of Scientology. However, a vaguely similar cult exists, founded by Robert Heinlein, based on some of the ideas that appeared in the Stranger in a Strange Land in our own timeline.
• Many long-distance US Railroads are electrified, and it's possible to travel coast-to-coast behind electric locomotives. The Milwaukee Road is still a going concern, although the 'Little Joes' have been retired in favour of more modern electric locomotives.
• George W Bush is President of the United States, as in our own timeline. His predecessor was President Clinton, except it was Hillary, not Bill. The president before that was Dan Quayle, who only served one term, and before that, John Wayne. All three did much the same things as their counterparts in our own timeline.