[presidio9]

What I can I say. The more “pop” music gets, the more I hate it. You’d be suprised how many people agree with me about McCartney. By the time John was dead, the man litterall didn’t have anything LEFT to sell-out. The popular legend that Yoko Ono was responsible for breaking up the band is total BS. Paul was always about selling the absolute number of albums possible, John wasn’t. To this day nobody has ever had a clue shat was going on in the mind of Ringo (including Ringo) and George just wanted to play his guitar.

[Borges]

That's fine. I have spoken to people who really think McCartney would be a nobody without the Beatles. But the stereotype of Paul being the commercial one and John being the Artsy one is mostly false. Most of the innovative aspects of the Beatles records was Paul. The weird production tricks, the song suites, the Sgt Pepper idea, the Abbey Road medley. McCartney was the one who went to hear Stockhausen in Germany and incorporate that into the Beatles records. John didn't like any of that stuff. He wanted straight ahead rock and roll. Look at his solo albums. His musical ambition plummeted.