See my below post.
His lyrics were fantastic, hence the success of Yesterday and Hey Jude amongst others despite their melodic shortcomings. But not every song he wrote had the vocal quality required to make up for the musical shortcomings, and so his quality was always limited.
John, on the other hand, was original and provocative, even if sometimes his lyrics lacked the widespread empathetic touch that makes a good song a classic.
For proof: what's recognised as the best song ever (besides perhaps Bohemian Rhapsody)? It's John's "Imagine," not anything Paul wrote.
( Malchick, Sun 3 Jul 2005, 0:05, archived)

hrmmm
imagine or yesterday?

actually, those two words seem to say an awful lot about lennon and maccas
( sex and dougs and rock n roll, Sun 3 Jul 2005, 0:07, archived)

and as a finale
four bars from the end of Hey Jude didn't really do it for me. Partly because some idiot gave Mariah Carey a mic and she then gave it to those stupid african kids.
(Brad Dice, Sun 3 Jul 2005, 0:08, archived)

This strikes me as a remarkably fucktarded point of view.

(0800221155 Coldseal windows, Sun 3 Jul 2005, 0:30, archived)