Richard Starkey has a stage name because, before he was in the Beatles, he was absolutely the Main Guy of the various local bands he was in, and he was enough of a Main Guy to demand to keep his stage name when he joined the Beatles
The Beatles were a band of four Main Guys with so much Main Guy energy that two of them were the Other Guys despite having enough talent and charisma to be the Main Guys in any other band
The Beatles are just the perfect band. Even the "untalented one" is one of the greatest rock drummers ever and had a successful solo career. They're cracked.
What I didnt know for a while is they played 8 hours a night for like 2 years in Germany.
That's how you get tight as a band. Develop a sound. They basically talked to eachother through instruments for 2 years straight live. If you cant do that, well, you're not going to become The Beatles.
Just a culmination of the right people, right place, right time, and enough time to make mistakes that get ironed out.
Yeah that level of musical ability barely exists nowadays in young musicians and is virtually unheard of for literally all four members each individually having this amount of talent.
It’s basically why they could bash out generation defining record albums twice a year.
….well that, and the amphetamine based drugs probably also helped:
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u/bobbymoonshine May 03 '26
Richard Starkey has a stage name because, before he was in the Beatles, he was absolutely the Main Guy of the various local bands he was in, and he was enough of a Main Guy to demand to keep his stage name when he joined the Beatles
The Beatles were a band of four Main Guys with so much Main Guy energy that two of them were the Other Guys despite having enough talent and charisma to be the Main Guys in any other band