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Hi,
The Beatles are an interesting study. I think there will be many PhD's done on them, say 200 years from now. So what did they have exactly?
There were many bands around who were technically as good or better musicians at the time - The Who (yessss), The Yardbirds, Brian Wilson (although McCartney was up there)
There were many many better singers as a group - The Hollies, CSN (although McCartney was up there)
There were better lyricists - Dylan, Paul Simon (although Lennon was up there)
So what was it? I think it was primarily timing. They had a good song-writing team in-house, good and complementary voices, technically competent musicians, and not forgetting George Martin too. Enormous.
The time was just right. I'll dare to say it could have been someone else. So why wasn't it? I'll go further, it was Martin and McCartney.
Eh? Eh?
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