George Martin made us what we were in the studio. He helped us develop a language to talk to other musicians.
Beatles Quotes
My only regret with The Beatles is that I was wrongly advised and signed away my royalties to their records — about half a penny per title but, with them, that would have been an enormous amount.
They were rather war-weary during “Beatles For Sale”. One must remember that they’d been battered like mad throughout 1964, and much of 1963. Success is a wonderful thing but it is very, very tiring. They were always on the go. “Beatles for Sale” doesn’t appeal to me very much now, it’s not one of their […]
Who the hell are the Beatles?(Said after his plane was delayed at Heathrow Airport due to the hordes of fans welcoming the Beatles back from an overseas concert.)
That first “Ed Sullivan Show” performance proved a cultural turning point, one of those moments when everything changed, or at least, a point to which one can trace changes in everything from style in its broadest sense (in music, art and fashion, for example) to the way rock ‘n’ roll was marketed and perceived. It […]
Just to show you how wrong one can be: I was in Germany on tour just before “Revolver” came out. I started listening to the album and I got really down because I thought the whole thing was out of tune. Everyone had to reassure me that it was all okay.
What would I being doing in a lonely hearts club band?
When you get to the top, there is nowhere to go but down, but the Beatles could not get down. There they remain, unreachable, frozen, fabulous.
It was a hot day in London, a really nice hot day… Barefoot, nice warm day, I didn’t feel like wearing shoes. So I went around to the photo session and showed me bare feet… Turns out to be some old Mafia sign of death or something.
A habit of reading hidden meanings in record grooves left the runway when the music of certain pop stars was elevated from ephemera to Holy Writ… Beatles fans – especially in North America – began listening to their records in the dark, at the wrong speeds, backwards. Every inch of the sleeves and labels was […]
