Lennon or McCartney
 

John Lennon or Paul McCartney?

Who's yer' man and why?

neither. the beatles were the most overated band ever, and a very bad one too but my grandmam' likes the new Paul McCartney CD, and he didnt married someone named "yoko". so paul.

harrison

Damnit.. why do I have to agree with death of capitalism..... ... I suppose of the two choices John Lennon, he really had the vision, Paul was just a pop song writer.

lennon all the way, Imagine. he had the feel
and why cant i change my avatar? 20 x 20 wtf?

McCartney was the beatles

McCartney might have been the Beatles, but Lennon had the insight, and that is why he is regarded as one of the great symbols of international peace today. For sure he had a little help with some catchy pop songs in the beginning, but you can't engulf the world in flames with a couple of matches.
John Lennon gets my vote.

Death of capitalism, you have a good point about Harrison.
Without Harrison's understated influence on the Beatles, I doubt they would have developed in the way they did, particularly with the experimental stuff.

Both Lennon and McCartney had very different styles.
McCartney the romantic love song/ballad but Lennon's lyrics were far more adventurous, even dark at times and in true Lennon style, far more controversial.

If Lennon was alive today he'd still be cool, which is more than can be said of McCartney.

Like Clapton...

McCartney, amazing bass player, one who bassists still look to today for great bass lines. And to whatever donkey said he only wrote pop songs, please be more specicifc, if you think he didn't write anything in the later beatles years you don't know what your takling about, and I don't think "let it be" is the same as "penny lane". I want to know what you mean cause I think Lennon was a conveinent choice here, because he's algedly the "genious" but McCartney to me was the better all around musician.

Lennon

Maccer is a twat

Of course Lennon. But that was never a question.

For that reasons:

But my favourite Beatle is George anyway. Because of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" which is my most favourite Beatles tune ever.

lennon, definitely vladimir lennon. wait, what were we talking about. jk. but seriously, id have to go w/ john lennon over paul mccartney any day.

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I'm suprised that no one voted for Ringo Starr.





hah!

ringo starr - any firend of keith moon's is a friend of mine!

mcartney his music is more lively than lennons songs.

Both were amazing songwriters with the Beatles, But Lennon had the better solo career by far IMO.

I suppose, if there were a gun to my head, and I absolutely had to choose one I preferred over the other, I would have to say McCartney, simply because of the sheer volume of songs he's written that I enjoy outweighs the one by Lennon I enjoy.

There was more I could add, but reading this thread, it'd only be redundant.

I prefer George Harrison over both, really. Musically, I think he was more gifted than either of the other two. His songs always strike a deeper nerve than Lennon or McCartney.

Oh yeah!
You're just too right.

Same. I love John Lennon, I have his acoustic CD and it's one of my favourites. He's my favourite Beatle by far.

paul took control of the band so much, if you see their early concerts, hes totally taking the show over. and it was his idea to stay in the studio 65' onwards, -which is where they made their greatest stuff. paul is more of a softer singer i thnk, (dispite helter skelter ect.) john was more gritty and just had a really a raw voice, songs like 'girl' , and 'im only sleeping' really show that. i dont think paul could ever had the same effect on the songs john was singing, (if paul was doin the vocals in em) all the beatles are amazing in their own way (maybe except ringo) but yea, and towards the end their talents and egos were getting way too big to be contained in one band, and breaking up was inevitable. so what im saying it that i like all of them, i cant choose.