Were the Beatles better musicians and singers than songwriters? It’s a question worth asking. As in could they have produced even more hits if they’d left the songwriting to others? John Lennon once said it all began musically with Elvis Presley, and Presley left the writing to others.
Most famously, legendary Beach Boy Brian Wilson loathed touring, so much so that he sent the Beach Boys band out on the road so that he could focus all of his energies on songwriting and recording with unknown-to-the-buying-public studio musicians. Pet Sounds, viewed by many music experts (I know nothing about music) as one of the greatest albums of all time, was the result of Wilson outsourcing his performing to others.
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