# Website to tell McCartney vs Lennon

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 25, 2006, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-to-tell-mccartney-vs-lennon/346050 "2006-02-25T07:11:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-to-tell-mccartney-vs-lennon/346050/21 "2006-02-26T20:26:56Z")

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Maybe it’s because I’m British, but they don’t ever sound alike to me.

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**Author:** ![Phantom\_Dennis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/51bf81/32.png) [@Phantom\_Dennis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phantom_Dennis)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-to-tell-mccartney-vs-lennon/346050/22 "2006-02-27T00:56:11Z")

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> [@Thudlow Boink](#):
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> Probably if you listened a lot to their post-Beatle solo works, it would help you learn to tell them apart.

Definitely true. I have no trouble telling them apart in the post-Beatle solo work, but before the split-up, their voices are much less distinctive. It almost sounds as if they were trying to imitate each other.

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