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Originally Posted by Quackerson
And the truth of the matter is that The Beatles weren't a great live act. In part because they stopped performing halfway through their recording career.
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Quackerson, in previous posts in this thread, our late brother billybunter and I had a discussion on whether the Beatles were a good live band or not. If you listen to live Beatles recordings of the era, especially the
Live at the BBC discs, they sound good. But you try playing Shea Stadium with equpment that was suited more for the Cavern Club. Of course you're gonna sound like crap, then add on the 35,000 screaming teenagers and you won't hear a damn thing. The Beatles stopped touring just as the equipment necessary to make arena and stadium shows possible. If they had toured in the post-Epstein years, who knows how things would have been.
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Originally Posted by chris chunt
Jagger and Richards are the geniuses in popular music not Lennon and McCartney.
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Yet it was Lennon and McCartney who showed how Mick and Keith how to write songs. In the 2004 edition of
Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time; the Beatles had 23 songs (21 by Lennon/McCartney) and the Stones had only 14. The highest ranked Beatles song was "Hey Jude" at #8, while the Stones just missed the top spot, placing "Satisfaction" at #2.