Quoted from o-din:Yes, this should be about the psychedelic, LSD and other drug induced, anti establishment years.
Only if you are a hippy dipshit.
The older shit has the balls of the band, when they worked Hamburg for hours, slept on the floor, cursed and spat on stage, gave away future million dollar contracts for a couple of pitchers of beer, and played for German gangsters. That's what made band. The first album recorded in hours, with Lennon's voice so shot that all he could do was scream, and yet it turned into a timeless classic still played today. When they played together as a band on stage and on the recordings. When they took other people's shitty ass B-sides from America and made them into timeless classics as a fucking joke. Where they played in dives so bad their art house friends were in fear of attending.
Boy band material? I don't think so. Go watch the only video from the Cavern when Ringo was with them for days and show me a boy band that can rocks like that. No one could touch them back then.