But, of course, they weren't black. So when they'd recombine all this stuff they heard and loved they sent it out with a very different, fresh twist. Those artists influencing the Beatles already are the older artists so the Beatles style doesn't seem current to blacks at the time. What's more, the Beatles are not just musicians but social icons whose image definitely is that of boys. It's growth going in the wrong direction.
People often juxtapose composers.
Mozart is stereotyped as joyous and happy, Beethoven is angry and mournful. Paul and John undergo a lot of the same stereotyping and reductions. Paul is seen as the writer of light ballads, John of hard rock and roll. The fact is that both were writing words and music all the time. Their partnership worked not so much on a single song but on a musical style.