love them both but the STONES win by a mile, jagger/richards a great songwriting team, lennon/mcartney good also but would argue lennon the much stronger of the two,on the basis that after the split mcartney wrote some real dirge wheras lennon some classics. saw the stones at the hyde park free concert also 20 years later so no they hadnt outlived their stay then certainly,only saw the beatles once they were ok, so on live performance the stones won again in my book.
