A very famous radio DJ here in the UK has claimed it:
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Rihanna is a better artist than the the Beatles, Tony Blackburn has claimed.
The veteran DJ, who won the first series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2002, was speaking to the Radio Times.
When it was suggested to him that the 1960s were a golden age of music, he said: "I actually think today's artists are better than those of yesteryear.
"The Beatles and the Stones just stood there with guitars and sang.
"These days, people like Rihanna can sing and dance and do everything."
Sir Paul McCartney spoke in March about One Direction being compared to the Beatles, commenting: "It's a pressure, because suddenly you've got to live up to all the things that we did, and it was a different time. So let's just call them 'the next terrific band'."