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I kind of loathe Lennon as both a person and as a musician.

I tend to like McCartney, Harrison, and Ringo from stuff they did outside of the Beatles than anything they did as part of the group.

I think people give them way too much credit for being musical geniuses, because they weren't innovators as much as they were synthesizers and popularizers. Harrison is the only one I really think of as being all that much of a really creative musician, and even that more later on. I get that they had a strong influence on many acts and styles of music that followed after them, but to some degree I think that was more a case of being the right people in the right place at the right time than it was something that literally could not exist without them. Basically, in a universe without The Beatles, somebody else would be The Beatles.

And honestly, when it comes to their style of music in that relative era? I like more songs from The Monkees than I do The Beatles.