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meanmistermustard said
What would be the point? Most either wouldn’t care, wouldn’t believe him and/or claim he was trying to rob John of his legacy whilst being an obsessed egotistical control freak. 

We’ve been here before with that conversation.

Well the point would be the imparting of information……Getting the history correct. All historians will draw on many sources for corroboration. But while we have the horse’s mouth still with us……..!!

I believe most on here would care……and are fair enough to want to give credit where it’s due. Look at the conversation over the Ahhhs in ADITL. Whether he’s believed or not, or how it’s interpreted is not in his or anyone’s control. I suspect there would be some accusations of egotism……….But better to go to the Great Composer In The Sky having said you piece don’t you think?

Apologies if this has been discussed before. Perhaps you could point me to that thread. I’d be interested in why this suggestion has previously been summarily dismissed.  

Having just read thru those 5 pages i can see exactly why MMM and perhaps others from both camps wouldn’t want to go there again……There’s certainly powerful arguments on both sides…..But ultimately leading nowhere.

There was a lot of sense spoken……..But I’m firmly with vectisfabber’s comment mid-way through the thread:

“One of the things which irritates me about this issue is the fact that there seems to be a strong point of view which would prefer Paul to shut up and say nothing, rather than tell us something which gives us more information about the songs we all love.”

After all part of the reason why we’re here is to learn more about ‘what’ and ‘when’ and ‘how’ they did it……

In the context of this thread I was just suggesting that George and John’s relative success in the poll might spur Paul into making more unsubtle asides when it would be better (from my point of view) to ‘put-up’ once and for all ……..and then shut-up.

Win win for me as he’s already tagged as egotistical whatever he does….But he puts his case out clearly. We can make of it what we want.

A nice point that MMM made was that after he dies Paul’s recognition and popularity will soar……..and I’m sure it will.

………..But the arguments that he could have cleared up about who did what will rage on for eternity.

…Still it will sell books.

Thanks Ahh Girl

Ahhh Girl said

Wigwam said
There are only a few dozen songs where he would need to clear up any doubts over his contribution. He should sit down toe-to-toe with Joe.

I’d pay good money to watch @Joe interview Paul. Or maybe Joe could find a way to stream it to us over the internet. I could see all of us huddled around our computers the way people huddled around their radios to hear an FDR or Churchill speech.

Yes, no point in pursuing this but…….For instance I’d wager Joe…..or even MMM or Nice Mr Nasty with their almost unparalleled knowledge of Beatles’ lore, given the opportunity would ask some searching and intelligent questions…..And despite statements to the contrary would be keen themselves to get to the bottom who did what.

But hey…….This is not the thread to belabour the point……Which I’ve just done I suppose. But I’m stopping now.

Roll on the 30th.

When evaluating medical students for a spot in our orthopedic surgery program, we do exactly what’s been done here: everyone on the committee gives a score to every candidate. Then we add up the scores (and send them to Ron Nasty and Annadog40).

Having said that, when we look at the rankings there are often surprises: “Gee how did A end up so far behind B?” Everyone agrees that shouldn’t be so. Someone then pipes up that he doesn’t know why he gave A such a low score; he thinks he might have been put off by A’s hair. So then by consensus, A is moved up in the rankings in a totally subjective unscientific way.

Looking at the list here, do we think that the Top 10 /Top 20 are a fair representation of the Beatles’ very, very best work? [You COULD argue that with this band, the Top 50 would represent their very, very best].

I wonder how many here feel that certain songs belong in the top 20 at the expense of this or that song? (You already guess where I stand on that.) 

I don’t know how to rip and put on my Mac songs from youtube?