Could Lennon play keyboards, and drums and lead guitar like McCartney could?
There's at least a thousand guys on the Holiday Inn circuit that can and do, every night.
But how many of them, McCartney included, could conceive and write Tomorrow Never Comes, Nowhere Man, And Your Bird Can Sing or A Day in the Life? Norwegian Wood. Revolution.
I could go on but you get the picture.
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Lennon was good at writing spiritually depressing clap-trap lyrics.
He had a head full of “awful stuff.”
Paul was the heart and soul of the Beatles.
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