I really cant answer this....

if it's just the music (rather than all knowledge of them)
then i'd get rid of the beatles, but that's only because i'm having a big bowie phase right now.
ask me in a few months and i may change my mind.
very hard question.

there was a great record store in San Diego devoted to Bowie and the Beatles. I mean, they had other stuff, yeah... but half the store was Bowie/Beatles stuff, bootlegs 'n everything. We'd spend all day there! Called the Blue Meanie or green Meanie (?) after a song by the band I didn't go there for.

and Beatles to leave, but then the Beatles have never really managed to enter my life so it isn't much of a change. I have never really clicked with the beatles I can see why there a big influence and all that but the music for me is just abit rubbish. prefer Hendrix.

not that i'm a massive Bowie fan or anything. i wouldn't even say that i liked Bowie all that much - in fact, i like him about the same as the Beatles which isn't very much in the first place. i guess i just prefer Bowie for superficial reasons, like his multiple personae and the power he seems to wield.

for example, if Macca does a show or performance, everyone kind of groans and says "oh, Hey Jude... yeah, great... okay that's enough." but if Bowie does a performance somewhere, everyone gets totally excited about it and they all praise it, even though it's Life On Mars? or something and that Bowie hasn't really done anything that great for about the same amount of time as Macca.

Bowie just has something about him that makes him a bit more likable. although, he does have crazier fans. i know a guy who only listens to Bowie or Bowie endorsed music. if Bowie hasn't mentioned or worked with or whatever'd a band, he won't listen to it. i find that really weird...

There are so many bands that have tried to emulate the Beatles that although irreplaceable, there are great alternatives whereas nobody gets close to Bowies' diverse output.

I'm not obsessive about either really. I probably like more Beatles songs than Bowie songs.

That said though, the Bowie songs I do like I probably like more than the Beatles songs I like so I'm in a quandary.

The count in at the start of Taxman is my earliest musical memory, and I spent ages as a toddler staring at the covers of Revolver and Abbey Road.

That makes me sound like Noel Gallagher doesn't it?

Bowie has blotted his copy book at various stages, whereas I think the Beatles are flawless.

Their solo careers can largely do one though.

if we had not the Beatles, then Oasis may have had a harder time hatching - that's reason enough for me.

he is great, but i've always been more of a beatler

to go.

I don't think I have ever put on a Beatles record in my life. Certainly not in the last five years.

Not that I've not heard them, you understand. Just I never look at the big racks of CDs and think "I know! The Beatles!"

Whereas Bowie is an all-time genius and legend, and I love him. Low, Ziggy, Scary Monsters, 'Heroes', Hunky Dory ... bloody hell. Unbelievable.

I went through a phase last year of LOVING Bowie. But I've liked the Beatles since forever, it's hard.

I think if I really had to pick, I'd banish Bowie and keep the Beatles.

assuming that the removal of the beatles doesn't mean that we're stuck listening to jive for the rest of eternity.

anyone would choose to keep Bowie over The Beatles. But there you go.