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Originally Posted by aigel
Listening to their early stuff makes me laugh sometimes. They were terrible. In later years they had a lot of help from studio musicians, whole orchestras ...
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I have to respectfully, but strongly, disagree. In my mind, one of the most striking things about the Beatles' early popularity explosion is that it did not happen suddenly or accidentally. Before their hit records began in 1963, they had completed five tours to Hamburg. In Hamburg, they ate, slept and played music. Hours and hours per day. Literally thousands of gigs. This was the rock and roll equivalent of a perfectly tuned four-cam Porsche engine. If you listen carefully to their records (except for the Tony Sheridan crap), you'll notice that Paul and John are nearly always singing together. What sounds like one voice is actually two. Their harmonies are stunning. Their guitar-playing is fully polished. There is nothing but technical perfection in those earliest (except for the Tony Sheridan crap) recordings.
To answer the OP, Paul was probably technically superior to John. Paul was the brain, John was the heart.