[cpdiii]

Post Beatles George Harrison showed his brilliance. His work with the Wandering Wilberrys was the best. His conjunction with other great stars was great. They were all rich and were just having fun making great music. Lennon was a genius in writing songs and music but sadly murdered by a nut. Paul McCartney was just very average and his voice is gone today. Ringo Star was the luckiest man on earth to be with the Beatles. He was a good drummer but not the best.

My vote is for George Harrison as the best of the Beatles.

[nickcarraway]

He was the only religious one.

[OttawaFreeper]

It was the Traveling Wilburys. Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, and Roy Orbison were all good on that album as well.

[stanne]

George. Yep

All things must pass is great. It’s essentially Derek’s dominoes.

Someone on Conan or some podcast said whenever one would go to George’s hose for a dinner everyone got handed a ukelele and they’d all play

[dangus]

Lotsa people are adored by your average fan, but virtuosos say, “Meh.” Ringo is the opposite. The fans don’t think that he was all that, but I’ve heard so many all-time classic drummers say that Ringo was extremely exceptional. The absence of showing drum fills means next to nothing. Supposedly his timing was absolutely perfect and his drum patterns deceptively simple-sounding but very difficult to reproduce.

[Dr. Sivana]

Lennon was a genius in writing songs and music but sadly murdered by a nut. Paul McCartney was just very average and his voice is gone today.

I disagree with you about both Lennon and McCartney. After the breakup, he was generally the least successful Beatle for several years in terms of record sales and hits, with his only pre-death #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" (which in many ways is the opposite of "Imagine"). But the albums "Mind Games" and "Imagine" are not great albums. Harpie Yoko pops up regularly. It would be about six years between "Walls and Bridges" and "Double Fantasy" (which is a solid 1/2 album, 1/2 done by Yoko), with nothing but an album of covers "Rock and Roll" in between. "Walls and Bridges" only outstanding tracks were the releases ("#9 Dream" is a favorite of mine).

McCartney was the #5 acting of the early '40s (with the Carpenters, Jackson 5, Three Dog Night and Stevie Wonder ahead). Output remained high, and he wrote what he felt like writing, and he felt like writing pop-rock (Uncle Albert, Band on the Run). Venus and Mars runs the gamut of British Music Hall (You Gave Me the Answer) to #1 charting pop (Listen to What the Man Said) to straight rock (Magneto and Titanium Man) to something a little harder (Rock Show). The whole thing is a coherent whole. Around that time, he also (to my knowledge) was the only Beatle to make the country charts with "Sally G" (Junior's Farm B-Side). He also made an entire opera (Liverpool Oratorio).

He wasn't spent. He wrote what he wanted, and had fun. Did all well. Certainly not mediocre.