Over the decades & various podcasts I've probably heard Bill Simmons speak on more topics than anyone on Earth ("anyone else on Earth"...as in, where the fuck else would they be?") and time & time again he's shown that he doesn't know that the fuck he's talking about whenever he veers into music. - XMASTIME
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You guessed it, Universe, he was merely repeating word for word what I had written on these very pages 11 months earlier:
Paul McCartney, who I am hereby officially decreeing to be the Michael Jordan of rock and roll. After Revolver and retiring from touring in 1966, The Beatles were ready to, after going non-stop for almost a decade and showering the world with enough albums and singles for a lifetime, kick their heels up and rest a little bit. Sure they'd record again, but they wanted to go at a more leisurely pace and see what else was out there in life to enjoy.
But not McCartney. Every other Beatle has gone out of their way to bitch and moan about how Paul would nag at them to get back to work, dragging them back to Abbey Road for yet another project. It's kind of funny whenever you hear Ringo tell the stories over and over now, but what if Paul hadn't pushed them to keep working so hard? There'd be no landmark Sgt. Pepper, no sprawling White Album. No bare-boned Let it Be, no majestic Abbey Road. No Hey Jude, Lady Madonna, and on and on. Even if they had stopped in 1966 the Beatles' legacy would have been cemented, but we'd be without such incredibly cultural-shifting pieces of art - jut try imagining the world around us without them existing as part of it. And we have Paul "I Wanna Be Like Mike!" McCartney to thank for it all.
CONGRATS ON RIPPING OFF THE BEST OF THE BEST, BILL SIMMONS!
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