Keith Richards disses the Beatles...again

Ticket sales and popularity says "objectively good" verbatim!

 

It sure does for the people buying the albums and concert tickets now, doesn't it??

 

No, Keith is about a credible as they come. He even calls out Mick Jagger without a second thought.

If that makes you feel any better....

 

It sounds a bit dismissive to me, but that's just an opinion. In all honesty, the first thing I thought of was Mike Love's HOF speech...

 

I remember reading somewhere that they did something like this - can't recall what. I think it was one of John's interviews. Don't think it was lip synching.

 

Led Zeppelin? quitters!
The Smiths? quitters!
The Jam? quitters!

Seems to me some of the best bands of all time are quitters

 

The Velvet Underground, Cream, Traffic, Roxy Music, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, The Clash & Baba's beloved Sex Pistols, after only one album. . . nothing lasts forever. Like I said before, every band has it's own arc. Some are brief but intense, while others are longer but they never sustain the quality of their peak years. They don't sign an unbreakable blood oath to serve hungry fans until their dying days. Artists have to follow their own muse.

 

I remember being 13 in 1965 and buying those fanzines headlining BEATLES vs STONES. It looks like it's still going on.

 

nice teeth

 

Paul knew it was over and wanted to move on. Paul was never depressed about the Beatles breakup. Paul wanted to release his first solo album. John was depressed that Paul would release his solo album before Let it Be the Beatles final album. That pretty much sums up how John & Paul felt.

 

Carried on " si !!!
Inventing themselves"
After Exile they became a joke boogie band.

 

From what I've read Paul was indeed depressed over the break up and wanted the band to continue. John and George couldn't get out of there fast enough. The Let It Be thing was just financial stuff, not John being unhappy about Paul's solo album.

 

Copying other styles / trends (psychedelia/punk/disco/new wave) = reinventing

 

Garbage.

 

I'm sure all of them were a little depressed about a breakup. Whether the boys admitted it or not human nature.

 

To some extent - Ringo certainly wasn't happy about it. I think though that John especially badly wanted out

 

Sarcasm emoticon would sometimes come in handy

 

After their classic Decca period, and after another 2 classic albums on their on label ( SF/Exile) what they put out after effectively imo was garbarge in comparison.

 

They were, to the person. Every one of them knew they were giving up something special, a once in a lifetime thing.

 

Some cracking singles though post '72 even if the albums were patchy/mediocre. Emotional Rescue,Miss You,Start Me Up and She's So Cold are all Stones faves

 

Nah! Pass.
Nothing to see here.

 

I think the singles were pretty patchy too. Of those four, "Start Me Up" is the best, but even that can grow tiresome after a while.

 

No, he never said any such thing.

 

One catchy one.
But....oops KD Lang wrote it.

 

Quitters...quitters...quitters....

It's given such a negative connotation.

In fact...it can be quite positive. As in 'the race for arms', 'elevating a conflict of any sort'....quitting...laying down one's arms....someone needs to quit. Escalation only leads to more conflict.

As in The Beatles quitting...if the tensions between the bandmembers got any worse....the 'breakup' might've been much more detrimental.

Being a quitter is good.