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Ok they didn't play orchestral instruments on song like Yesterday, but The Beatles did more than play one instrument. John played guitar, harmonica and melodica, Paul played bass guitar piano and drums, George played electric guitar, sitar and classical guitar and even had a master class with Andrés Segovia, and Ringo besides playing drums played the plucky comic relief guy.

Wes Montgomery before he started playing guitar at 20, played on a four course tenor guitar which btw so happens to be tuned like a tenor banjo. Roger McGuinn also played banjo before he played the electric 12 string Ric. They took what he knew about chord shapes and technique and applied it to guitar. When they did it, they were hailed as a geniuses.

Oh yeah, well look at Yes, what the Beatles did pales in comparison. And besides there's no rule in Rock that says at some point in its band history they must stick to that one line-up. Even the Beach Boys had line-up changes.

John, Paul and George were mates from early on even before they had a Rock band or needed a drummer. Pete came in later on, and there were instances where Paul played drums. Stu was part of the group too, he opt out to pursue art. Martin might had his doubts about the whole band in the beginning but that was because it would a way to insure a hit, I don't that thought lasted long. And anyway the Beach Boys actually did what Martin and Epstein only thaought about doing. They admit they could had handled it better, but it was done after's George Martin's suggestion who wanted a better than Best. They met up with Ringo playing the circuit and were chums with him more so than Pete.

That only proves one thing: George Martin - the fifth Beatle.

Give the man a break he had a tough choldhood, he suffered from pleurisy, peritonitis, and tonsilitis as a child. Ringo isn't a complete failure that didn't leave his mark on society as you might want people to think. When The Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, h sold more drums then anyone at the time. They was such an increase in drum sales and Zildjian cymbols were on back order for a year at that time.

I don't think everyone knows who Bozo the Clown is.



The other band members weren't too happy at the time to be relegated to just singingwhile the studio played for the recordings, they want to play as well. And there weren't "some session musicians" some of those musicians were famous in their own right. Like Hal Blaine for instance he played for everyone from the Mumus and the Papas, the Monkeys, 5th Dimension, Simon and Golfuncle and Neil Diamond.

John Lennon never felt that way, he felt like some in English high society "crust" (as you put it) didn't like him because he was a Northerner.

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