As a personality















As an artist


Basically, the dead ones.
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Look at my avatar.....

As a personality i'd Say lennon
As an Artist i'd Say Harrison

As a personality, Ringo


As an artist, John Lennon





(as Supernova knows "Lennon rules, McCartney drools")


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As a poet and experimentalist, Lennon

As an artist and musician, McCartney

As a man that just got extremely famous for tagging along for the ride and not having to do a whole lot (my ambition ), Starr.
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Paul and John are tied with me

i honestly admire all four very much.

McCartney for his vision, his melody and his little richard-esque wails

Lennon for his minor chords

Harrison for his songwriting too - i don't rate him massively as a guitarist, but some of his songs are outstanding

Ringo - well, certainly NOT for his songwriting, lol. "don't pass me by"? Erm...no, please DO pass me by, thanks. But his drumming is maligned unfairly - the guy can play.

i never tire of the beatles. wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

Yoko.

it has to be John and George

JOHN

ugh...so hard.

well i gotta go with john

i hate picking favorites

George Martin

For me it would have to be George Harrison. He was the diffident Beatle, the quiet and unassuming one beside the towering egos of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.Yet he wrote a number of Beatles tracks which remain my favorites and shows he was a great songwriter, with works such as 'Here Comes The Sun', 'While My Guitar Gently Weep's holding their own beside those of his colleagues. 'Something' was hailed by Frank Sinatra as "the greatest love song ever written". There is almost the sense that people held back their feelings, through the years, out of respect for Harrison's much-coveted privacy. Besides, the man famously shied away from compliments, and was dogged in playing down his musical worth, whether as a Beatle or solo artist.

George Harrison was as important in shaping the sound, feel, and political tenor of the times as his more celebrated contemporaries. The piercing, trebly jingle-jangle of the electric guitar, the wedding of social activism and rock spectacle, and the searing twang of the sitar—all major time stamps of the era—were all Harrison contributions. Lennon and McCartney were the luminary songwriters that epitomized the era, however, Harrison provided the unconscious backdrop that made the decade so unforgettable.

Of all the one word epitaphs pundits have used to capture George Harrison's personality—quiet, sullen, reluctant, humble—one stands out in particular. Shortly before his own death, Lennon, in his typically audacious and provocative tone, called his band mate "invisible." Though Lennon employed the remark as a derogatory joke I think, it expands the distinction between McCartney's and his larger-than-life charisma to Harrison's diminutive persona, "invisible" may be just the word to precisely describe Harrison's essence. Amidst all the madness of Beatlemania, solo career, lawsuits, and business turmoil, an invisibility, or transparency, to spirit shone forth through George Harrison with remarkable uniformity throughout his life. Prior to and after his interest in Eastern spirituality, there was a forlorn vacancy in his eyes that suggested that nothing in this world was going to satisfy a deeper need inside.

If the Beatles were shining symbols ofcreativity and self expression, Harrison was I think the Yoda of the group, binding the deep, spiritual mystery of life for practical purposes long after the genius of the Beatle collaboration waned. He was a reluctant bridge to the East, often awkwardly stepping into the limelight from the shadows to introduce the West to meditation and Krishna consciousness. Harrison refused to take on a more PR face for public acceptance, however, he used his celebrity to spread the spiritual gold he had learnt from Eastern teachers. He is the one I most admired because he was in every way a pioneering spirit, a pilgrim of new ways of being, and, most remarkably, he did this under the intensity of the public worship that made his life insufferable at times.

As a personality and an artist: Paul McCartney

Well, I know this is rather cliched, but I have to pick John. No offense to George or Ringo, but it has to be between Paul and John. And even though Paul did write some great songs sometimes I can't stand him! So I gotta go with John.

Oops, I didn't read the rest of the post. I'll stick pick John on both counts. He seemed to have great wit and I think he was the type of guy that everybody wanted to be friends with. And, overall, I like his songs better, even though it is very close between him and Paul.

JDINTERACTIVE said:

Obviously, it's a personal choice as to who you like best. But don't you think you are overstating George's importance? John and Paul, on their own, could have fronted two of the '60s biggest bands. It's a total fluke that they managed to meet and have the massive success that the Beatles enjoyed. I like to think that if Pete Townshend and Ray Davies had formed a band together it would have been bigger than the Beatles, but neither of them is a great singer, so maybe not. Anyway, I don't think George could have led a band on his own, at least not a terrifically successful one. And if you look at his solo career, All Things Must Pass aside, there's not a whole lot there. Personally, I always felt that George was overrated. But I could be wrong. Paul and John cast mighty large shadows!

John.

MrSquiggle said:

NWF said:

He's serious.

minneapolisgenius said:

Oh.

NWF said:

Yeah, I think Yoko had a far more memorable, creative and groundbreaking catalogue of work. I really do.

Paul in every way

The End!

CinisterCee said:

nice save


i coulda easily said "Murray the k"

TheRealFiness said:

and before u ask who he is... he was known as the 5th beatle...he was a dj at wins in ny i believe then switched to cbs-fm in the earrrrrly 70s

TheRealFiness said:

Preach!

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You could also have said...


Billy Preston

Supposedly, John and Paul hung "the 5th Beatle" label on him.

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theAudience said:

nah he was just tha brotha that added extra dirt in tha grease but i feel ya on that hell i give him 6th beatle status

TheRealFiness said:

It's all good.
Murray did have it 1st.

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theAudience said:

and i did get my hands on those airchecks man memories my gawd.. some i wasnt even born yet.. and some i remember like yesterday