Members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles have always refuted a feud, but Stones' guitarist Keith Richards' latest comments on the fab four are anything but complimentary.
The 71-year-old rocker has just finished touring the US with his band - formed in London in 1962 - and despite having outlasted The Beatles Keith still had plenty to say.
Speaking to Esquire magazine, Keith slammed The Beatles for losing the roots of their sound during a meteoric-rise to the top of the charts in the 1960s and even went so far as to label their Sgt. Pepper's album as 'a load of s**t'.
Talking to Scott Raab, the legendary rocker laid into Sir Paul McCartney and co., saying : 'The Beatles sounded great when they were the Beatles. But there's not a lot of roots in that music. I think they got carried away.But while John Lennon and Paul McCartney's modern psychedelic masterpiece conquered the charts, the Stones' own attempt at the genre, Their Satanic Majesties - released the same year -, only achieved a peak place at number three.
Though the bands have always denied that their musical rivalry extended to anything beyond the charts, these latest scathing comments from Keith are not the first shots to be fired.
In an interview with The Radio Times in 2011, Sir Paul McCartney candidly spoke of Sir Mick Jagger's playful joshing when it came to The Beatles and their recipe for pop success.
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| The Beatles at the album launch of Sgt. Pepper |
Sir Paul revealed that Mick appeared to be jealous of the Liverpudlian quartet's musical abilities, explaining: 'I could sing, John could sing, George could sing and Ringo did numbers that he could sing. So it wasn't just the front man and the back-up band.
'We were an entity. Mick used to call us the Four-headed Monster.'
But while the two bands have always maintained a cordial friendship, despite the occasional dig at each other, the same could not be said of the original members of The Rolling Stones themselves.
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