Beatles or Stones?

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This is probably considered heresy, like criticizing God or something, but.. The Beatles had a lot of very popular songs, hence the great songwriter label. But as lyricists I'm not that impressed, there were and are plenty who are better with the words. Lennon was pretty good, Harrison had his moments, just not that many. McCartney when it came to words was and still is pretty banal for the most part. But they had some great melodies and vocal harmonies and lots of catchy tunes.

George Martin doesn't get nearly as much credit as he should for the Beatles musical creativity and instrumentation in later years.