re: The Stones ' pop period is better than the beatle' Rock attempts

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Prive me wrong. Stones would record and then go out on the road and deliver killer shows. The Beatles after 1966 could not be bothered with leving the studio. That makes the Rolling Stones "The Hardest Working Band in Show Business"

Show me where they shrugged off touring . Mick, Keith and Ronnie are still touring.

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The level of 24/7 grind that went into The Beatles prior to anyone in America ever having heard of them is absurdly epic. They were poor and desperate. The Stones were comfortable and middle class - and they had The Beatles to lay all the groundwork for them - including writing their first hit song.

But even AFTER Beatlemania came stateside, their work rate was insane. In 1964 (the year that hit Sullivan), they recorded 2 new full-length albums AND made a feature film...all while touring like madmen.

Yes, it's true - by 1966, they had been utterly battered by the road in a way the Stones never really knew...so they stopped.

"Deconstruction" or "demolition"?

Interesting for sure. Lennon did somehow transition that tune into doo-wop and typical chord structure. But almost as though he ran out of ideas as to wrap up the song.

Too each his own, and I know many love it, but my overall assessment of Happiness is a Warm Gun's composition would not be kind.

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Btw, maybe you've misconstrued the gist of my post up-thread:

(DJs and record producers still managed to integrate pre-Beatles pseudo-doo wop stuff and instrumentals side by side along with the newer "Beatles-sound", modern guitars and baroque pop etc.)

I meant the integration of pre-1964 Beatles pop music style (still based largely on simple 50's chords and harmonies) to post-1964 style pop changes based on Beatles song structure (Byrds, Kinks, Who, Herman's Hermits etal.)

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"Deconstruction" or "demolition"?

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I would say his deconstructed ended the genre...and he revisited this in 1980 with (Just Like) Starting Over.

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Lennon did somehow transition that tune into doo-wop and typical chord structure. But almost as though he ran out of ideas as to wrap up the song.

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I don't think so.

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I would say his deconstructed ended the genre...and he revisited this in 1980 with (Just Like) Starting Over. ?

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That's such a well recorded song. Jack Douglas was behind a lot of that.