# Who do you think was the best beatle?

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**Created:** [May 28, 2006, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-was-the-best-beatle/358530 "2006-05-28T09:56:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-was-the-best-beatle/358530/41 "2006-06-01T01:02:07Z")

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I have no answer for the OP’s question, but chuckle thinking of the National Lampoon [Genius is Pain](http://mlfoley.livejournal.com/1461989.html) which includes the lyric (referring to George):

_I should have beat the &^@%&@ right  
out of him,  
him with his @_&#@) Hari Krishna\*

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-was-the-best-beatle/358530/42 "2006-06-01T03:49:47Z")

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[QUOTE=What Exit?]  
For what it is worth, I heard it was not competition with John but the Who.  
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I find it easy to believe that both internal and external competition helped spur the Beatles, especially Paul, to greater creativity. For instance, it’s fairly well-known that hearing _Pet Sounds_ was one of the things that influenced Paul to do _Sgt. Pepper_. Ah, the Sixties.

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-was-the-best-beatle/358530/43 "2006-06-01T06:20:14Z")

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[QUOTE=Marley23]

Yeah, okay, Ringo was a goofball who couldn’t write a song. Still, 1.5/4 at most.

You mean instead of a tasteful player who barely had an ego at all? Beats me.  
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A competent drummer in a band of geniuses. But from Anthology, anyhow, he is certainly a nice guy. Though I must admit, after listening to some of the stuff on the Anthology CDs, I think the rest kept him bottled up.  
I’d just love to hear the sound with a talent on drums close to George’s on guitar. A Billy Cobham might be too much.

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