Or, 'Can you make it sound nasally? ' Despite the fact that [John] was one of the greatest rock 'n' roll singers of all time, he hated the sound of his own voice,” he added.
John's vocal style is a direct result of his lack of training. The most distinct quality of his voice is his nasality, which is most clear when he sings in a straight tone. Along with this technique comes some confusion, but make no mistake; if we must label him, baritone is the easy choice.
Lennon's voice is reedier, like an oboe, which i find more appealing. Easy one for me: John. I think Paul had a very good voice (not so much anymore but that's age for you) but for me it doesn't particularly stand out. It's got a lot of range but for me it's not as distinctive and that's the key from my point of view.
“My voice wasn't the same for a long time after— every time I swallowed it was like sandpaper.” In fact, listening back to the recording, Lennon has remarked that he “was always bitterly ashamed of it because I could sing it better than that, but now it doesn't bother me.
George Harrison was given the nickname the “Quiet Beatle” because he was reportedly shy and was often in the background of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
John. Lennon was singing with a sore throat due to a long. day of recording which added to his vocal intensity.
Of people who are at least somewhat familiar with the Beatles, 43% say they love McCartney, while somewhat fewer say they love each of the three other band members, including John Lennon (34% love him), Ringo Starr (32%), and George Harrison (31%).
Paul McCartney didn't used to be cool. Even back in the Nineties, when the Beatles-indebted Britpop scene was in its pomp, “Macca” always seemed like a cheesy elder statesman.
Paul McCartney: Paul's massive success with The Beatles and subsequent massive solo success leads me to believe he was the most talented Beatle. Unlike the others, a ton of his solo work still sounds great today. “Band on the Run”, “Live and Let Die”, “My Love”, “Uncle Albert, Admiral Halsey” immediately come to mind.
As far as the vocals, Paul obviously had better range, both were great at scream-singing (e.g., 'Long tall Sally', 'Oh Darling' for Paul, 'Bad Boy', 'Yer Blues' for John), but there was a tonal depth to John's voice that gave it a hauntingly beautiful quality (e.g., 'Strawberry Fields", 'Julia').
Not only does Paul have perfect pitch (recognizing notes where he hears them), he has absolute pitch (singing a given note on command). I heard him in the recording studio looking for the note to start a song on with his voice, and finding it even before anyone had played any instrument!
John was no virtuoso. Anyway, The Beatles had George Harrison for that. If, however, you define good guitar playing by how well a musician works with their bandmates, their dexterity and their inventiveness, then you're looking at a very different answer. John was very good at blending rhythm and lead lines.
George Harrison was a better guitarist than John Lennon because George Harrison was more technically proficient than John. John Lennon was a good guitar player but he was not than technically proficient because John didn't pay much attention to technical proficiency.
In 1968 McCartney started a secret affair with American star Francie Schwartz. Asher found out when she returned from an acting job early and found the Beatle in bed with Schwartz.
John Lennon opened up a little more about the song and how it allowed him to reflect on his past abuse behaviour: “I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women.
Harrison and Lennon were possibly the closest friends in the group at the time — and following the band's breakup with the guitarist notoriously featuring Lennon's famed Paul McCartney attack song — but their relationship was dramatically withering.
"More popular than Jesus" is part of a remark made by John Lennon of the Beatles in a March 1966 interview in which he argued that the public were more infatuated with the band than with Jesus and that Christian faith was declining to the extent that it might be outlasted by rock music.
Lennon insisted his voice be “double tracked”—again, first manually and then electronically. Lennon wanted the added depth to conceal—maybe to enrich—his own voice. Basically, as hard as it is to imagine, John Lennon hated the sound of his own voice!
John Lennon was a cultural icon, a musical genius, and one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. As a founding member of the Beatles, he revolutionized popular music and helped shape the cultural landscape of the 1960s and beyond.
“None of us could read music… None of us can write it.” John Lennon admitted this about the band in a 1980 Playboy interview, “but as pure musicians, as inspired humans to make the noise, they [Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr] are as good as anybody.”
9. John Lennon (1940-1980) The popular Beatle is thought to have had ADHD due to his disruptive behavior and inability to focus on his lessons growing up.
Many of The Beatles' most iconic songs, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, “Hey Jude”, and more, were written and composed by both John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Their hit song “Help!”, however, was written solely by Lennon himself after experiencing high levels of anxiety throughout the band's rise to fame.
Not most, but definitely more girls preferred Ringo than any of the other Beatles in 1964 in the USA. They each had lots of fans, but Ringo had the most — I remember reading about it at the time, in the newspapers.
In many respects Paul McCartney was the group's most rounded musician, and possibly even its best guitarist. It was he that devised many of the riffs and even played some of the most memorable solos, such as on Taxman (Revolver), Ticket To Ride and his killer Epiphone Casino riff on Paperback Writer.