How many of the Beatles could actually read music?

None of the Beatles could read music. They even refused to learn. Therefore, arrangements beyond the basic four-piece were supplied by George Martin, a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music.

Does paul mccartney listen to his own music?

However, The Beatles legend has revealed why he doesn’t really listen to his hit tunes anymore. Promoting his new book Hey Grandude! on The Penguin Podcast, the 77-year-old said: “I don’t listen to a lot of Beatles music, I don’t listen to a lot of my own music.”

Were the Beatles good musicians?

To be honest, it’s all relative. The Beatles were good musicians for what they did, especially Paul, but you can’t compare them to the likes of top jazz and classical musicians and even some of the progressive rock groups, who were far ahead of The Beatles as musicians.

What was the British music scene like before the Beatles?

Lemmy Kilmeister of motorhead said in his biography that back before the beatles got big there were lots of bands performing the British scene. He said pretty much wherever you went there was a band playing, and he said for the most part they were all talented.

What was Quincy Jones first impression of the Beatles?

Quincy Jones in 2017. In the new interview with New York Magazine, he discussed his first impressions of the Beatles in unsparing terms. “They were the worst musicians in the world,” he told interviewer David Marchese. “They were no-playing motherfuckers.

How good of a bass player is Paul Paul really?

Paul is a good musician and a good guitarist and a pretty good guy. I don’t think he was anything special as a bassist, to me he sounds like a guitar player who took up the bass because the other two guitarists weren’t going to do so when the first bassist left. Quora in general seems to disagree with me on this point.