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Beatles or Stones? The Question Finally Addressed: Neither!

Beatles or Stones? The Question Finally Addressed: Neither!

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John Mendelssohn
Jan 26, 2015
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Beatles or Stones? The Question Finally Addressed: Neither!
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I've been meaning for 50 years to address this. As players, the Stones might have had the edge, as they arranged for two guitars much more imaginatively than The Beatles did (or could, given Lennon’s being very limited), and Brian Jones, on both harp and slide guitar, was probably the most accomplished instrumentalist of all nine, but the Beatles were o…

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