Here Is Why It Was (Musically) Easy To Replace Paul

When I read criticism of Paul being replaced, the most common snide comment is:  "How could [the current] Paul possibly play a bass left-handed and sound like Paul?"

Really.

Bill Harry, who went to school with Stuart Sutcliffe and the original John Lennon, founded and edited Mersey Beat magazine that chronicled Liverpool area musicians, and who wrote books about The Beatles, says in the Merseyside area of Northern England, there were upwards of 350 bands in existence in the 1958-1965 time period.  He says, "The most popular line-up was a quartet with three guitarists -- lead, rhythm and bass [my emphasis] -- plus a drummer."

His list of those groups can be seen at:  https://www.sixtiescity.net/Mbeat/mb1A.htm  .

Check out the list and remember that there were hundreds of other bands throughout England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales with hundreds of guitarists in them, and in that sea of musicians there was our Paul--who replaced the original Paul--and the current Paul, who replaced them both.