Lennon or McCartney

Lennon or McCartney

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urban genie said:
Lennon a wife beating tory **** who pretended to be a hippy living in a a mansion and craving fame and fortune.

McCartney was a vegan before it was a trend so dodgy but I will let him off.

Plus wings were decent


Anyway Harrison was better than both
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McCartney is documented (Tune In?) as having slapped his girlfriend Dot Rhone about and been generally controlling of her in their relationship. They separated shortly after she suffered a miscarriage in the summer of ‘62. He rationalised it (for both him and Lennon) citing having seen Elvis do it in his movies, and kind of considered it the norm as a result.
Lennon was an angry drunk, a state he was often in following the death of his mother (ironically run over by a drunk driver) when he was 17. Shortly afterwards he started seeing Cynthia Powell and she bore the worst of his excesses. If you want a semblance of a positive it’s that they both later saw the error of their ways
 
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Exeter Blue I am here said:
McCartney is documented (Tune In?) as having slapped his girlfriend Dot Rhone about and been generally controlling of her in their relationship. They separated shortly after she suffered a miscarriage in the summer of ‘62. He rationalised it (for both him and Lennon) citing having seen Elvis do it in his movies, and kind of considered it the norm as a result.
Lennon was an angry drunk, a state he was often in following the death of his mother (ironically run over by a drunk driver) when he was 17. Shortly afterwards he started seeing Cynthia Powell and she bore the worst of excesses. If you want a semblance of a positive it’s that they both later saw the error of their ways
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So they were both cunts, I revert to my original answer of neither then.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
Ralph McTell is a much better song writer than Lennon in my opinion.

And to be fair, both Lennon and McCartney both displayed their fair share of c*ntish behavior in the 70's.
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Taking your post at face value mate, I genuinely only know one McTell song, which is admittedly a classic, but what made L&M so special and better than anyone else for me, to this day, is the sheer volume of great songs they wrote (over such a short period compared to subsequent eras). They had the best hit/miss ratio of any artist I’ve ever heard.
Every single track on their two Red & Blue double albums is a classic, and there are numerous that didn’t even make those albums. No other artist can match that.
Apart from Ralph of course ;-)
 
Difficult to separate Lennon and McCartney.
You could say that George Harrison had the best songs on a number of albums from 1965 onwards. All things must pass is a fantastic solo album.
Rubber Soul - If I needed someone
Revolver - Taxman
White Album - While me guitar gently weeps
Abbey Road - Something/ Here comes the sun

It’s what gives them the edge on everyone else. Three, very different, phenomenal talents in my opinion.
 
chesterbells said:
Taking your post at face value mate, I genuinely only know one McTell song, which is admittedly a classic, but what made L&M so special and better than anyone else for me, to this day, is the sheer volume of great songs they wrote (over such a short period compared to subsequent eras). They had the best hit/miss ratio of any artist I’ve ever heard.
Every single track on their two Red & Blue double albums is a classic, and there are numerous that didn’t even make those albums. No other artist can match that.
Apart from Ralph of course ;-)
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Agreed thar the Red and Blue albums are very good albums, but without the 5th Beetle would they be anywhere near as good?
 
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