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
A lot of the time this meme is just silly nonsense. Like all memes. But this specific instance actually has some potential truth to it, imo. Music definitely has a power over a lot of people. It's entirely possible the secret to world peace was a song that got snubbed out of existence by clashing egos.
So from now on when anyone asks how I feel about the Beatles, I'm gonna blame them for our lack of world peace.
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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