[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.

[presidio9]

John didn't like any of that stuff. He wanted straight ahead rock and roll. Look at his solo albums. His musical ambition plummeted.

His ambition plummeted before he left the Beatles. It was the drugs. Yoko was just a symptom. As for Paul's "weird production tricks, song suites," sometimes more is just more. Everysingle thing he ever did with Wings and on his own flat-out sucked.