Here you can talk about the fascinating time of the 1960s.
Specially the music.
Specially "The Beatles"   
The poll is about "Who is your favourite Beatle"? That includes just the Fab Four and not former band members like Pete Shotton, Colin (or Collin) Hanton, Eric Griffiths, Rod Davis, Bill Smith, Len Garry, Ivan Vaughn, Nigel Whalley, John 'Duff' Lowe, Ken Brown, Stuart 'Stu' Sutcliffe, Tommy Moore, Norman Chapman, Randolph Peter 'Pete' Best, and Chas Newby ...
Also William 'Billy Shears' Campbell, if you should belive in the Paul-is-dead-conspiracy.

My favourite Beatle is John 
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um..I dont listen 'beatles'...

*scratches back of his head*
And I always thought that the Beatles had only had five members.
Anyway, I pick John Lennon, because I have a strange relationship to him...

Thomas the Tank engine? Enlighten me! NOW!

Thomas the Tank Engine is a lil' kids program.. i used to watch it.  The narrater was called ringo star.  Its about alil' train set that all have namse.  the main was was thomas

 

Originally posted by Margarita:
um..I dont listen 'beatles'...

Nurdbot, you're needed again. 

Ringo. He played drums. No question about it.

Rose Tinted Specs=Cool.

Go Lennon!

i can't really vote for any of them. they were brilliant together, and that's the whole point.
and although most people assume that john was the real genius in the band, these were just images created by the media. lennon/mccartney really meant that these songs were created by both of them, so it'ld be really hard to pick anyway.

All of them were great, that's why they got so far 
But if I have to pick one, I'd go with John. I mean Paul.

Ringo Starr because..um..he has cool nick yeah 

Ringo Star then George Harrison then Paul Diddy McCartney, all for appearing on the Simpsons!
Then John Lennon for being a hippie lovebot and doing all the songs, minus points for marrying Yoko, cause she freaks me out.

Fav songs: Hey Jude, Let It Be and I Am The Walrus.

"I Wanna Hold Your Hand" is symptomatic of everything I hate about The Beatles.  Overtly over-innocent to the point of being patronising, for gods sake, it's written by 20-somethings and it's called "I wanna HOLD YOUR HAND"!  Give me a break!

There are a few great Beatles Songs, namely "Tomorrow Never Knows", "Helter Skelter" and "Paperback Writer".  Now them, I really like.

I think we'll have to agree to differ here.

However, I agree about the Pop-Idol thing, baring in mind that (with a few exceptions) they don't write their own material.

I maintain my point that The Beatles were much consistantly improved post-Revolver, ("Tomorrow Never Knows" being the last track on Revolver and being one of my favourites).

Maybe.  Today, IWTHYH would be given to Aaron Carter and performers of his ilk. 

Contemporaries and predecessors of The Beatles were writing much stronger material.  Mississippi bluesman Willie Dixon wrote the classic "I Just Wanna Make Love To You", sung subsequently by Etta James and The Rolling Stones among others.

He also wrote "You Need Love", traces of which can be heard in the immortal "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin.

The Stones, themselves, wrote "Satisfaction" in 1965.  So, no, unless you were Little Eva ("My Boy Lollypop" ).  Four 20-something Scouser Scally Blokes singing about "Hand Holding" is trite to say the least.

To re-iterate my point, I contend that there were just as important bands around at the time of The Beatles, and just because they were popular it doesn't mean they were great.  I'd take The Stones, The Who, The Animals, The Yardbirds (bands who embraced Rhythm & Blues as a major influence) over the The Beatles any day of the week. 

This is not to say that The Beatles didn't make good records. I'd say that the later into the sixties you got, the better the music got.  Japanese conceptual artists notwithstanding.

One more further point:  Of the bands stated above The Beatles were only marginally less influencial compared to say, The Yardbirds who set in motion a powerhouse of blues based rock which survives today.  A succession of great guitarists and their subsequent projects have been legendary - Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page all played with The Yardbirds.  After The Yardbirds split, The "New Yardbirds" line-up consisted of Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham (thereafter known as Led Zeppelin).

Also, look at The Animals (who's biggest single hit was a cover version, "House Of The Rising Sun" ).  However, their biggest contribution came from bass-player Chas Chandler - who, after The Animals split, became a Manager and discovered Jimi Hendrix.

I voted John, but I am not a big Beatles fan. I like some of their later stuff.

Most of the reason I am not a Beatles fan is because I used to work as a waitress in a theme restaurant. Eight hours a day of 'Paperback Writer', 'Day Tripper', 'I Want to Hold Your Hand', and 'Help' was enough for me.

Your biology teacher was mean.

I would like to say one thing though. Hey Jude has to be one of the most overrated durges ever written. Ag, I can't stand that song.

I'm not sure who was the 'best' one. I prefer all of them together! I do like Paul McCartney's music though (with Wings), although I don't have any of that on CD.

My favourite Beatles songs are:
Help!
Eleanor Rigby
Hello, Goodbye
Hey Jude

  Wasn't "All You Need Is Love" the offical song or something of the Queen's Jubilee?

My favourite Beatle song is Run for your Life although I like most of their songs 

Who the hell listens to the Beatles for their lyrics anyway? I don't care if the words don't make sense, or if they're just three hours of "na na na na na", or if they're childish songs about holding hands and having farty pants. The Beatles are still sexy. I mean, geez--just look at them!

 

Originally posted by germanfryfan:
"Imagine all the people
living life in peace..."

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
I hope some day you'll join us and the world will be as one."   
 

I still think that Yoko Ono has planned his murder. <reasons why>

I don't think so. I guess very much so called music-experts don't like Yoko, because she took very much of the traditionaly "manly" part in her relationship with John.
(Listening to "Women" shows very much about their relationship I think.)
Yoko was a strong woman, not a cute, sexy "babe", what most Japanese women are still in the view of European/American men.
Her art was new, experimental and tradition-breaking. See:
TLL: *reaches a card to germanfryfan*
GFF: *reads: "Breath"* ... deep and slow?
TLL: Yes, you've got it!   
(In original it were Yoko and John saying this.)
... by the way: There are also people saying Yoko made John to go away from The Beatles, but I think those people should learn to accept that John did end The Beatles, because he wanted to.
 

Beside Beatles I also love other music fom this time, especially Jimi Hendrix, Santana, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, and all the others from the great happenings in the US (Montery, Woodstock, etc.).

You've ever seen The Who's "Tommy" - or The Beatles "Yellow Submarine" or "A Hard Day's Night"?

Edit:Cute!