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Knowledgeable music fans know better.
He was the perfectionist who stayed in the studio alone with George Martin all night long overdubbing bass lines while the other three were long gone.
He was the mastermind of Sgt. Pepper and the Abbey Road suite. He did the tape loops on Tomorrow Never Knows and played lead guitar on Taxman and much of Sgt. Pepper. Magical Mystery Tour (the movie) was his idea, which, depending on your taste, might either be a good thing or a bad things.
Songs like Eleanor Rigby, Yesterday, Hey Jude and Blackbird stand pretty solely on their songwriting merits as opposed to their production merits. Some of his more underrated Beatles songs (For No One, And I Love Her, Mother Nature's Son, etc.) are all the same way.
The dude is a monster in ever sense of the word and disputing it is silly.
Also, his solo catalog is leaps and bounds better than any of the other Beatles in my opinion. He's got four legit classics: RAM, Band on the Run, Tug of War, and Chaos & Creation; four more excellent albums: McCartney, Flowers in the Dirt, Flaming Pie, Electric Arguments; and a few uneven but interesting efforts: Red Rose Speedway, Venus & Mars, McCartney II, Driving Rain, and Memory Almost Full.
I could on for days, but why bother. The percentage who don't understand is higher than the percentage who do.
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