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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
Are the Beatles the only rock band that, like Shakespeare and Woody Allen, produced brilliant early stuff, then later went on to produce their true masterworks, works of altogether greater complexity and gravity and wholly of a different kind from the early stuff? I think maybe the factor that distinguishes the Beatles is they matured as artists and actually experienced an arc in their creativity. Most rock and roll stars are like meteors.
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Did their increased drug use help or hurt their later stuff?