Beatles vs. Stones, ce preferaţi?

Pele sau Maradona, Linux sau Windows, Lamborghini sau Ferrari, America sau Rusia, The Beatles sau The Rolling Stones...

... Beatles sau Stones. Primii erau supranumiţi "The Fab Four" şi întrupau băieţii perfecţi, ceilalţi s-au născut prin campania făcută sub sloganul "would you let your doughter marry a Rolling Stone?". The Beatles erau mereu la costum, toţi la fel, Stones au refuzat uniforma. The Beatles a compus "Let it be", Stones a răspuns cu "Let it bleed"; Beatles a creat "Sg. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band", Stones a transpus controversatul "Their Satanic Majesties Request". Aş duce comparaţia şi spre "Imagine" a lui John Lennon versus "Sympathy for the Devil", dar între ele nu există o conexiune, o piesă nu a generat alta, antiteza e însă interesantă.

Beatles erau băieţii buni ai Angliei, Stones erau băieţii răi, o rivalitate cultivată de ambele formaţii în anii '60, chiar dacă pe parcurs munca lor s-a interpus, cum ar fi în piesa "I wanna be your man", scrisă de John Lennon şi Paul McCartney, dar interpretată de The Rolling Stones, iar Mick Jagger a făcut backing vocals pe "All You Need Is Love" al The Beatles.

Mai jos, găsiţi o descriere poate perfectă a disputei Beatles-Stones, apoi aveţi un sondaj.

“If you truly loved pop music in the 1960s… there was no ducking the choice and no cop-out third option,” one writer remarked. “You could dance with them both,” but there could never be any doubt about which one you’d take home.

Much of this was by design. With their matching suits, mop-tops, and cheeky humor, the Beatles largely obscured their origins as working-class Liverpudlians; by contrast, under the influence of their wily manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, the Stones cultivated a decadent, outlaw image, even though they mostly hailed from the London suburbs. “The Beatles were thugs who were put across as nice blokes,” someone remarked, “and the Rolling Stones were gentlemen who were made into thugs by Andrew.”
JOHN MCMILLIAN, The Believer, iunie 2007

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