Rock n' Roll legends Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger have been engaged in a friendly argument recently about which one of their classic rock bands, The Beatles or The Rolling Stones, was better.
Rock n' Roll legends Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger have been engaged in a friendly argument recently about which one of their classic rock bands, The Beatles or The Rolling Stones, was better.
Much of the music and pop culture in the 1960's was influenced by the "British Invasion."
Rock n' roll bands from the UK were coming to America and making it big.
But as we know now, not all British Invasion bands were made the same.
They're the toppermost of the poppermost, if you will.
"[The Stones] are rooted in the blues. When they are writing stuff, it has to do with the blues. We had a little more influences,” McCartney said.
"There’s a lot of differences, and I love the Stones, but I’m with you. The Beatles were better."
“That’s so funny. He’s a sweetheart. There’s obviously no competition,” Jagger laughed.
"The big difference, though, is and sort of slightly seriously, is that The Rolling Stones is a big concert band in other decades and other areas when The Beatles never even did an arena tour, Madison Square Garden with a decent sound system. They broke up before that business started, the touring business for real," he explained.
"One band is unbelievably luckily still playing in stadiums and then the other band doesn’t exist.”