I, too, love their Beatlemania period - being a teeny-bopper at the time. Oddly enough, their later work bugged me because it was so nostalgic of Liverpool and the Goons. I had and still have no idea what they were singing about in those songs!
That being said, I knew this thread would bring out the Beatle haters. Yeah, right, that Communist Ringo, lol!
I don't hate the Beatles as a group, during their time they were great.
What ticks me off tho is the accolades that have been thrown on the individual artists John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr after the Beatles. Individually they were hacks with nothing noteworthy being produced by themselves but because they were "Beatles", they were still idolized......
I equate the "after Beatles" to Elton John after his break up with his major song writer Bernie Taupin...........The only thing Elton and the Beatle remnants have is their "oldies"........
I excuse Paul McCartney because he has maintained his own song writing and production career with new stuff that has been pretty good.