It’s an uncontested fact that The Beatles were the finest songwriters of their generation - with the lion’s share of their culture-shifting output being penned by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. In the decades since their 1970 split, further iterations of rock have tended to venerate the stellar soloist or the virtuoso riff-merchant as evidence of musical prowess.
This has lead some modern listeners to look back at The Beatles - and Lennon in particular - and contrast them to the more ambidextrous shredders that followed in their wake.
