Quincy Jones Interview

I read that interview yesterday and considered posting it here.  Thanks for doing so.
I checked out the tune that he mentioned in the beginning (the great BIllie Jean ripoff).  I think I have a good ear and a clear understanding of copyright law but I just don't hear the similarity (just as with the Robin Thicke/Marvin Gaye case).  I haven't checked the Giant Steps/Slonimsky claim yet.  I'm not sure everything he says in the interview is true but it is absolutely the most compelling thing I've read in ages.  What an amazing life he has had.  Wow!

The early Beatles were rough around the edges but they were quick studies.  Just listen to their third album, A Hard Day's Night--a pop masterpiece if there ever was one.  I'll take it over Thriller.

Shadorne, if Michael stole it then it certainly was not from the track QJ cited.  Give a listen and you'll find little-to-nothing similar.

I do.

When I was in music school I once went into a practice room where someone had carved into the wooden case of an upright piano: "Legit is dead. Jazz lives!" I didn’t know that kind of snobbery still existed till just now.

I doubt most of the musicians cited by Minori share the view that Beatles were not very good musicians. IMO/YMMV.

The Beatles used to play up to 7 hours a night in Hamburg.  They learned everything by ear and by "seat of the pants."  They assimilated the music by the masters of rock and roll, pop and country.  Then they took pop music where it had never been before.  Face it, you're a snob, Minori, and apparently out of your element when not discussing jazz.  I think you should stick to what you know.  Also, please produce the documentation that proves the Beatles were bad musicians--I'd love to see it and I think others here would as well. 

No, they weren't.  McCartney, while not the "coolest" Beatle, wrote many of their finest songs.  And he wrote the most popular ones, which bugged Lennon to no end.

Minori, just so we're on the same page here, I was using this definition from the internet:

• a person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people."a musical snob"

So, how could it not apply to your posts?

minori, "for the record:"

"The Beatles were not very good musicians. That is a fact."

You also said it is "well-documented" that the Beatles were not good musicians.  Could you give us five or ten examples of this "documentation?" 

Also, while you're at it, please explain how such bad musicians produced the likes Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane and Something (which Sinatra said was the most beautiful love ballad ever written)? 

Just dumb luck I guess--over and over and over for 8 or 10 years.