Who do you think was the best beatle?

[phungi]

I have no answer for the OP’s question, but chuckle thinking of the National Lampoon Genius is Pain which includes the lyric (referring to George):

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

[Thudlow_Boink]

@What Exit?

For what it is worth, I heard it was not competition with John but the Who.

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.

[Voyager]

@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.

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.