Anyone who sez that Macca isn't musically important is, well, one of several things. I'll have a go: a Macca-hater. A Macca envier. A Macca jealousee. A Macca denier. A Stones fan. A snob. Just give over, will you. By any objective standard, Macca is musically extremely important. In a hundred years' time we'll still be listening to Macca's stuff (Jesus wept, we're already fifty years down the road and we're still listening...)

I am not a fan of Macca. I do like a few of his songs and I can appreciate that he is extremely accomplished in his particular field, not to speak of extremely influential. You really are not obliged to like him though. I dislike Vivaldi and Benjamin Britten but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate their place in their genre. It just means that I won't be buying their LPs, my choice, that's all. Having a bash at Macca in a Macca thread is no more than immature tribal teenage Blur vs Oasis stuff. Just say you're not keen and move on.