Beatles vs. Stones

Two observations:  (1) the Beatles wrote the Stones' first big hit, I Wanna Be Your Man; (2) Mick Jagger was a complete phony.  He was raised in London,, attended the London School of Economics, and both of his parents were teachers.  He totally faked a Scouse accent.  There is no comparison:  the Beatles wrote better songs, sang better, played their instruments better, and sold more records: 

Beatles: 183 mil  McCartney solo: 45 mil. Lennon solo: 29 mil.  Harrison solo: 10 mil. 

Total Beatles plus solo: 263 mil. 

Stones:  240 mil. 

@larsman Spend a penny means to go to the toilet, especially a public toilet. One usually is said to be going to spend a penny. The expression is derived from the fact that public toilets were installed in the United Kingdom in the mid-1800s that required a penny to be unlocked.

On Bob Dylan's Tempest LP, song Roll On John, he sings the line "Another bottle's empty, another penny spent".  A little tip of the hat to Lennon's home country.  😁

I’m not so much into provenance, originality or other scholarly aspects of art & music as I am with the sheer emotional involvement a goodly piece of art or music can send my way. Yeah, it’s always nice to have your cerebral cortex tickled, but baser instincts have always ruled the day for me.

Then again, how many repetitions of  the One-Four-Five chord progression can a fella’ take?

@bdp24

He and I made a pilgrimage to Brian’s Bel-Air mansion in the summer of 1975, demo in hand (engineered by yours truly), to ask if he would produce us in a pro studio. It didn’t work out ;-)

Gee, that’s bad luck, or bad timing.

By most accounts Brian was not in a good place by the mid 1970s. 1975 was also the year he began his involvement with the controversial celebrity psychologist Eugene Landy.

@jrosemd

By most accounts the Beatles have outsold the Stones by a factor of more than 10 to 1.

Not too bad for a band that only recorded for 7 years.

@larsman The way I see it, I can't be sure the Stones were inspired enough by Sgt. Pepper to do Satanic Majesties, were doing it as a friendly tit-for-tat, or were given just a tiny bit of pressure from their record company. In any case, the Stones were pretty obviously out of their element with Satanic Majesties. It had its stretches of fun and a few moments of good music but it is certainly one of their less successful efforts.