The Beatles also innovated things other rock stars don’t do, things that (as it turned out) only they did, because nobody followed them. Here’s a big one: John and Paul both quit the Beatles to start new bands with their wives. Can you imagine the Stones breaking up at their peak so they could make music with any women? Mick and Keith splitting up to jam with Bianca and Anita? (What a shame—we missed out on the Plastic Pallenberg Band.) Can you imagine a timeline where Jimmy Page and Robert Plant quit Led Zeppelin to collaborate full-time with their ladies, who have no previous musical
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