A closer look
Paul McCartney and John Lennon never actually learned how to read or write standard sheet music, despite composing some of the most influential and commercially successful pop songs in human history, relying entirely on their ears, memory, and a few basic guitar chords to revolutionize the global music industry, which proves that formal musical education is mostly just a polite suggestion if you happen to be a generational genius, creating an incredibly frustrating reality for classically trained musicians who spend twenty years perfecting their sight-reading abilities and mastering complex theory only to realize that four guys from Liverpool conquered the planet by just messing around in a studio until things sounded good, effectively turning the entire concept of formal conservatory training into a wildly expensive joke
