[Superman]

It starts out slow and it seems tedious, but then you can see the development of the relationships and the music. At first, they are really struggling. Lots of tension. Nothing is working. The project gets a very obvious shot in the arm when Billy Preston shows up. Relationships start to heal. At times, they are light silly children singing nonsense lyrics but in reality they are in fact honing the material. It all comes together on a rooftop where they are clearly having fun.

At one point, McCartney is waiting for others to show up, playing chords on his bass, sort of in a trance, just putting his brain on standby and letting the music sort of write itself. In fairly short order, he had written Get Back.

At another point, John and others are looking at drawings of a concert that will never happen and ignoring Paul as he sits at the piano and writes one of pop music's most iconic anthems, Let It Be.

Then…here is Ringo and others reading newspapers and ignoring Paul as he sits at the piano and writes The Long And Winding Road.

I have aways been a HUGE Beatle fan. Always will be. Some folks don't care for their music, and I think personal preferences are just that....personal. Nothing wrong with that. But apparently they are sometimes a little out of step with overwhelming popular opinion. When someone asks what is the greatest band of all time, the question just assumes we are asking which band besides the Beatles. There is no question what was the greatest popular music band. Anyone doubting...would just need to look at the numbers. Do the math.

One more thing:

The Beatles released at least 16 albums in North America over a period of a bit more than seven years. About 90 months. While touring and then raising families and dealing with a degree of popularity that was schedule-crushing, they pumped out a new album chock full of top ten songs every 5.6 months, on average. Five of them in 1964 alone. This means that in the category of Songwriting Horsepower, they win by a mile in all three categories: Quality, Quantity and Velocity.