[grand wazoo]

Brian Wilson overrated? The man wrote some of the most popular and still well known music of the past fifty years. Most people can sing the lyrics of almost all of the Beach Boys top 40 hits.

Even a mentally diminished Brian Wilson is more talented than Billy Joel ever was.

I'll agree that McCartney and Lennon were better together than apart.

[Borges]

That’s your criteria? Joel’s best known songs can be hummed by multiple generations even if they don’t know who the artist is. They pop up in jazz bars all the time.