Beatles question

[Tin Soldier]

Wings, the band the Beatles could have been the wonderful Partridge

 

[Sideshow Bob2]

Are we classing Wings as McCartney solo?

The band the Beatles could have been.

Has no one suggested McCartney's been dead since the 60s yet?

 

[vinegar hill]

I'm their biggest fan, but I think they needed to bounce of each other to inspire them to do what they did, even though they largely individually wrote their own songs.
Also I think a lot of groups /artists have a truly inspiring period which is relatively short lived which they can never achieve again, it's just the circumstances that prevail at the time.

 

[Sideshow Bob2]

Wings, the band the Beatles could have been the wonderful Partridge

Bastard.

 

[errant]

3 and a half decent writers with genius like spells,1 great producer and bingo.

sounds like a reasonable summation... won't go down well...

 

[Billy Rocket]

Off the top of me head...

Jealous Guy
How Do You Sleep?
Cold Turkey
Crippled Inside
Working Class Hero
Gimme Some Truth
Starting Over
Woman
Mother
....and Imagine. Belters all.

I've only heard the Roxy Music song (excellent, original can't be as good), Starting Over (meh), Imagine (awful) and Woman (bland in the extreme). I'm willing to bet that 9 dogs out of 10 would call the whole lot bland.

 

[Slippery Jim]

There are many bands where internal differences of artistic opinion has pulled the music somewhere no individual would have taken it. This usually shows when the band splits and the solo careers are not as successful.

Happened with The Jam.

 

[a1970man]

The reason they weren't a big success after the split is that Paul died in 1966 and the talent struggled after that.
Paul and John wrote well together, but after his death John wrote his own style of music which wasn't quite as big as they'd had.

Makes sense really.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/7-completely-legit-signs-paul-5262843

 

[Kevj]

Happened with The Jam.

Pink Floyd is another prime example.

 

[The Voice Of Reason]

How did Danny Baker know his correct birth date and George didn't?

Dinnar hew

 

[JonMc]

I've only heard the Roxy Music song (excellent, original can't be as good), Starting Over (meh), Imagine (awful) and Woman (bland in the extreme). I'm willing to bet that 9 dogs out of 10 would call the whole lot bland.

It is an excellent song. Who wrote it? Thank you - and Lennon's version is a simpler, more beautiful version.
Imagine and Woman? Bland? Proof you have no ears lad - the latter is a lovely love song...and Imagine? I'm willing to bet that 9/10 cats do, in fact prefer it to other, inferior brands.

 

[waddy999]

And then there's Ringo...peace and love...Starr.

 

[Daffy]

Typical SMB, you're either amazing or shite. No middle ground.



That's completely different though. They weren't shite.

And no one was as good as the Beatles in their prime.

This

 

[errant]

Makes sense really.

perfect...

 

[Deleted member 26]

I have a soft spot for Macca with Wings but non of Lennons stuff stands out.Not a massive Beatles fan but i can see what they did

3 and a half decent writers with genius like spells,1 great producer and Ringo.

tidied

 

[luvulongtime]

Getting shot didn't help Lennon much mind

wrote 'happiness is a warm gun' he certainly found out that it's not true

 

[dangermows]

wrote 'happiness is a warm gun' he certainly found out that it's not true

It freed him from Yoko...

 

[Son of Stan]

Off the top of me head...

Jealous Guy
How Do You Sleep?
Cold Turkey
Crippled Inside
Working Class Hero
Gimme Some Truth
Starting Over
Woman
Mother
....and Imagine. Belters all.

You forgot Whatever gets you thru the night! And Real Love always makes me feel rather emotional too. Not many songs/writers can do that.

I have even found myself humming Oh Yoko! on occasion too.

 

[Boinger]

Went from genius as a partnership, to just very, very good individually.

Not too shabby that!

 

[JAZZMANB]

eY

tidied

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