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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
In no particular order,
Every kid who ever picked up a guitar and wrote a song to get the attention of a girl owes a debt to Lennon and McCartney (sorry Elvis fans, he didn't write his own hits and was washed-up halfway through his career). Come to think of it, any successful band who wrote their own material owes them; everything else was by professional songwriters (kind of like today, which in itself would explain quite a bit).
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Yup, they wrote excellent lyrics:
"We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine..."
"I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob..."
I'd go on, but I'm nauseated just thinking about the drivel they wrote.