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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fun fact: the Rolling Stones' first hit record was a Lennon-McCartney song. [/quote]

Actually, it was their second single. They needed a follow-up hit and Jagger was visiting the Beatles in the studio. Paul said they had a song they just needed to finish. It was I Wanna Be Your Man. He went in a corner with John and finished it then and there.

One underappreciated aspect of McCartney and Lennon's genius was that, beyond all the songs they recorded with the Beatles, they gave away a huge number of songs during the 60s that became hits for other artists. Just another reason their songwriting talent is really unparalleled in the rock/pop world.

This album has just a few of them and doesn't even include I Wanna Be Your Man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_Lennon_and_McCartney_Gave_Away

Another thing people don't fully appreciate is that, despite the fact that Apple Records folded fairly quickly as a record company for anyone other than the Beatles, they did help produce albums for Badfinger, Cilla Black, and most notably, they were the first to sign James Taylor. The lyric "a holy host of others standing around me" in Carolina In My Mind is a reference to the fact that Paul played bass on it and George sang backing vocals. It also went the other way -- George openly said his lyric "something in the way she moves" came from Taylor's lyric.

This is a long way of saying that when you combine the ingenuity of the Beatles' group and solo outputs and the influence that music had, along with how many songs they gave away to others and the concrete impact they had on other artists' careers, I simply don't see how any other band compares. [/quote]

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