The beatles and beyond...the solo careers

[Mrrusty1]

Ringo is very under rated in my view because he has made some very good tracks for instance photograph/im the greatest/it don't come easy / beaucoups of blues.. all very good songs and excellent production and musicianship

as good as the Beatles were, i think Paul and John didnt really hit their straps until they went solo...i think John came into his own on the Imagine album...Paul had to wait another couple of years until Band On The Run was released...
George, well, i think he was at his best sometime between The White Album through to his debut solo set All Things Must Pass, that said, i thought "somewhere in england", "cloud nine" and "brainwashed" were also superb albums from him...
Ringo, i must say he reached his peak somewhere around 1989ish when he narrated Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends(seriourly, im not kidding!)

back to the Beatles though...i do own all of their albums, they are all good bar "yellow submarine" and "magical mystery tour" which, imo were crap!
i still think that they had one or two dud tracks on each album, and without the genius and foresight of George Martin they would have been just another 1960s UK beat band....and they were just that until Rubber Soul and Revolver, and it was at that moment they became the greatest band in history

IMO the Beatles did record some rubbish that no-one else would have got away with like...Octopus' Garden, Yellow Submarine, Within You Without You etc etc, i could probably name another twenty songs to fit that catagory, regardless of those bloopers, you cannot deny the impact they had on popular music and still do, so hats off to those four lads from the shitty city of Liverpool...