As for Tom King's comments, Tom, everyone admits that Harrison was not his friend Clapton; that Ringo was not his drinking buddy Keith Moon...and so forth. But ask any drummer and Ringo will always get compliments (don't ask anybody from the DUH generation----18-30; they are pathetically stupid about everything). Sting once said that Paul was "the Gov'ner" when it came to the bass. I have heard trained bass players say he was the best in the business. And I love Entwhistle and Jack Bruce!! The Beatles were simply the best. You don't think they can rock? Are you kidding? Have you listened to the second side of Abbey Road? C'mon, Tom!!

Let's get this straight. I knew when I saw that REM was getting popular that the dumbing down of this nation was really sinking in. I have met two people who went to conservatories--one, the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, the other to the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio--and both told me that they might not have entered the field of music had it not been for the Beatles. Can you name anyone that went to a conservatory because of that moron Michael Stipe and his overrated group? Stipe flunked out of the University of Georgia, and you can tell that he's kinda dumb because his lyrics are insipid.