For me, there's always a feeling that they were always No. 2 to The Bealtes during the Brian Jones era. "Oh no, they were the Anti-Beatles during that time", you may say.
Well you
need a Beatles to
have an anti-Beatles.
I don't buy the notion that The Beatles were 'lily-white pop' while The Stones wer 'authentic & blues'. Neither is the case to me. I feel that their similarities outweighed the difference, and when you compare them, the favour is in the Beatles' camp with one exception - live show entertainment value.
The Stones, for me, seemed to earn their legendary status when Jagger and Jimmy Miller got them to stop peeping into The Beatles' kitchen window.
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