The Most Fab of the Fab Four?

[Sidhe]

Paul definitely was more of the balladeer, but he wasnt CHEESY, He was the best musician, he can sing great, he could play guitar, he played bass, he played drums when Ringo stormed out near the end, he played the flute thing in the beginning of Strawberry Fields. Yes he tended to write more love songs, but it was the perfect balance to John's experimental tendencies. Paul wasn't much of a preacher but he was a damn fine songwriter. I mean, if you are considered the "cute" member in the biggest band ever, you will get stuck up. He wrote Eleanor Rigby, he wrote Penny Lane, Sgt. Peppers(the album not the song) was his brainchild. His role was the balladeer, George was the spiritual one, and John avant-garde. Beethoven was a jerk, but that doesnt make him not a genius right?

Yes Beethoven was a jerk and yes he was a genius? What's your point. Paul was good, but Lennon was better IMO. Both geniuses. But different people will find them so for different reasons and it depends on your musical taste, and your outlook on life. fear not there is no wrong answer it's opinion here I'd be perfectly willing to except the fifth Beatle as the true genius: Stuart Suttcliffe, it's not a competition

 

[BCLG100]

John Lennon.

 

[luiz]

I can't believe that George is behind freakin' Ringo.

 

[amadeus]

I still can't believe it's not butter.

 

[sysyphus]

he played the flute thing in the beginning of Strawberry Fields.

I'm pretty sure that's a mellotron at the start of SFF, not a flute.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Beatle

 

[shortguy]

I'm not a huge Beatles fan, but, in the spirit of LLXerxes...

My favorite is... *looks at avatar*

Ah geez...George? That's George, right?

 

[LLXerxes]

Stu Sutcliffe or Pete Best?

If anybody should be fifth beatle, it should be Billy Preston.

George Harrison! He was an awesome guitar player, deeply into religion, very concerned with poverty (see the Concert for Bangladesh), kept in touch with all the others after the breakup, wrote the best songs (Here Comes the Sun, Something, I want to Tell You, Taxman, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, just to name a few...) and he was a very down to earth dude.

1. George
2. Ringo
3. Paul
4. John
5. Billy Preston

 

[LLXerxes]

Paul definitely was more of the balladeer, but he wasnt CHEESY, He was the best musician, he can sing great, he could play guitar, he played bass, he played drums when Ringo stormed out near the end, he played the flute thing in the beginning of Strawberry Fields. Yes he tended to write more love songs, but it was the perfect balance to John's experimental tendencies. Paul wasn't much of a preacher but he was a damn fine songwriter. I mean, if you are considered the "cute" member in the biggest band ever, you will get stuck up. He wrote Eleanor Rigby, he wrote Penny Lane, Sgt. Peppers(the album not the song) was his brainchild. His role was the balladeer, George was the spiritual one, and John avant-garde. Beethoven was a jerk, but that doesnt make him not a genius right?

He played so-so drums while Ringo left (in fact, he made Ringo and George leave), while Ringo was an awesome drummer (check out the Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour albums). He could play bass and a little bit of guitar (guitar was George's thing), piano, but that was it. The flute sound at the beginning of SFF was John on the mellotron. By trying to perfect every single song he made towards the end (IE bang bang Maxwell's Silver Hammer) he inadvertantly made sure that none of the other Beatles would ever play with him again. He was stuck up, he was the one that just had to produce the Naked LIB (yawn), and acted like an ass to Yoko, which didn't make John happy about being a Beatle.

 

[The 777 Hoax]

Ringo. He was waaay underrated. And he's a drummer.