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Originally Posted by fanofthefab4
Paul McCartney has 13 Grammy's and an honorary doctorate in music from the Univesity of Sussex decades ago,and this!!!!
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All those music awards shows are about as credible as a beauty pageant.
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Originally Posted by fanofthefab4
Well of course you you think that they are all rated pretty fairly as guitarists because you *underrate* John and Paul as guitar players! Eric Clapton saying John was a pretty good guitar player and he would know since he played live in concert with John as a member of his 1969 Plastic Ono Band,doesn't mean anything either! He's just generally considered one of the guitar greats thats all!
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Actually George Harrison is one of my favorite guitar players ever and I rated him number 3 (behind Hendrix and Prince) on my greatest guitar albums list. The reason I don't rate Paul and John so high is simple,
they weren't as good.
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And Paul having a very naturally musically talented father who was a self taught accomplished jazz pianist and leader of his own jazz band that were popular in clubs in Liverpool,and that he even wrote his own instrumental music, means the obvious that Paul inherited his father's same natural musical talent but to the extreme! I found an online article saying the same thing that I've said for a long time,that music because of his father is in his blood he was born extremely musicially talented and thats where he got it!!
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That's all bullsh
it, talent is something you earn, it's not something you're born into. Look at Sean Lennon or Jakob Dylan, they're good but nothing special especially in comparison to their fathers. Oh I have an even better example look at Kelly Osbourne.
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Paul has five Novello awards and he holds the record for the largest stadium audience in history when 184,000 Brazillions paid to see him in concert at The Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janerio in April 1990 and the world record for the fastest ticket sakes in history when 20,000 tickets sold out in 8 minutes for two shows in 1993. Paul also has a lifetime Achievement grammy award and in he was the first rock musician to recieve Chile's Order of Merit for services to music,peace and human understanding and in 1992 he was the first one to be awarded The Swedish Polar Music award which is the nobel prize for music!
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Britney Spears also sold out stadiums all the time back in her day and as I said before those music awards aren't credible sources for great musicians. Madonna was recently inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame for f
ucks sake.
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And Bob Dylan who I see you are a fan of,just recently said in a Spring Rolling Stone interview that he's in awe of Paul McCartney and that he is the only one he is in awe of! Bob Dylan said Paul has the melody,he's got the rhythm ,he can sing the ballad as good as anyone and he can play any instrument! He said there were no better singers than John Lennon and Paul McCartney. He did also say that he believes that George Harrison would have emerged as a song writer in his own right if he wasn't stuck behind John and Paul,but then Bob said who wouldn't get stuck?
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George Harrison was "stuck" behind Lennon and McCartney because they were egotistical as
sholes, not because he wasn't a good songwriter.