The sad fact for Beatles fans is that they performed well as a TEAM. Without Lennon to bring back to earth the nearly-pathologically optimistic McCartney, you get, well....Wings. [Without McCartney's music-composition skill, Lennon would have produced, well, the forgettable albums he produced (I guess with the exception of the song "Imagine"). ] Oddly, often cited as the most musically (playing and song-writing) gifted Beatle was George Harrison, who rarely got a chance to display his talent in either (guitar riffs and song-writing).
Ringo Starr wrote "Back Off, Boogaloo," ostensibly referring to McCartney's interfering manner, rose-colored-glasses way of looking at life. So even on the "team" he was regarded as a nuisance. A $250M nuisance...
[OOPS! I should have read MDStewart's post before I posted mine...pretty much the same.]
