Drago
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As a Bestles fan, but perhaps more importantly as a student of modern music and a multi-instrumentallist myself (or perhaps just a mentalist?) I can conform they are far from mediocre.
That you may not like them is fair play, entirely your right, and I have no issue with that. However, to suggest they are mediocre is simply incorrect at any level.
Technically McCartney and Harrison in particular were very good musicians, and Ringo wasn't bad all either, no mediocrity in that regard.
In terms of songwriting McCartney is perhaps the most significant composer of all time, certainly of the modern era. While not as prolific or successful in sales terms I would also suggest Lennon and Harrison were very accomplished songsmith too. No mediocrity there.
But perhaps most importantly is their influence on modern music, even to some degree modern classical. More than half a decade of popular music owes its lyrical approach, technical detail, and structural composition to the Beatles.
And their influence upon society at large...
To not like them is fair dos, but to suggest they are mediocre is indefensible.
The New song is OK, not their worst but far rrom their best. Where it suffers is simply from Lennon being dead. They had the lyrics, and nothing more. Their method of writing and completing a song as a pair and then as a group was absent. The people were all there ate one time or another, but because that was sometimes decades apart the dynamic was absent.
