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Old 10-23-2018, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Silly Moustache View Post
I disn't really like the Beatles, I was in west London and my "thing" was r 7 b - the stones, Cyril Davies, Alexis Korner...
Were/are you a Pretty Things fan?

I always felt they were criminally underrated.

I love The Beatles AND The Stones. I may be the only person on Earth, however, who thinks The Stones' "Their Satanic Majesties Request" is a better psych album than Sgt. Peppers (though "A Day In The Life" is one of my favorite songs by anybody.

Funny thing about the Beatles/Stones dichotomy is that The Stones always had that reputation of being really bad boys, as in "lock up yer daughters!" and The Beatles had the more clean cut, goody-good image (thanks in part to Brian Epstein...The Beatles were a sweaty, ferocious band of rockers early on.)

But the fact is, The Stones were far more middle class than John, Paul, George and Richard Starkey were. The Stones went to college...art school...Mick was studying to be an accountant and go work at his father's firm.

The boys in The Beatles, though, grew up rough and hungry on the Liverpool docks.
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