It was only later that I found out there was good ’70s rock like the Raspberries and the Flaming Groovies. I always gravitated toward the ’60s music more, though, like the Kinks, the Who and the Beatles, of course.
When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles’ songs I sang to them at night. As one of the youngest of 24 cousins, I had never held an infant or baby-sat. I didn’t know any lullabies, so I sang Sam and Grace to sleep with ‘I Will’ and ‘P.S. I Love You.’
The Beatles were here in the 1960s, with their wives, at the Maharshi’s ashram. And they wanted my advice on various matters in India.
They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I’ve written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I’d wake up and they’d be gone.
The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year.
I knew The Beatles before because we did our first television with them, ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars.’
For me, the Beatles are proof of the existence of God.
Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.
The Beatles were a huge influence on me to write really good melodies.
The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
I was such a massive fan of all the ’60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it would definitely be The Beatles.
When the Beatles first came out, you had to go to a certain amount of trouble to have long hair. You just couldn’t have it immediately. Anything you can just go out and get – like platform shoes – is not going to inspire people as much as something they have to go through a little bit of hell to have.
Walter Cronkite was the last newsman everyone trusted in the same way that the Beatles were the last music everyone loved and Marilyn was the last star everyone concurred was worthy of the word.
My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I’ve learned to write pop songs.
Before the Beatles could give us ‘The White Album’, they had to achieve disorienting success.
Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn’t understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn’t understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.
I’d bite off the Beatles, or anybody else. It’s all one world, one planet and one groove. You’re supposed to learn from each other, blend from each other, and it moves around like that.
She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
Growing up, I was listening to a ton of Motown music, Otis Redding, Aretha, and then there was the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin. These were all people that I felt as though they truly felt every single lyric they said, and they weren’t afraid of imperfection.
I grew up listening to most of my parents’ music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.
When I grew up, my dad listened to all that stuff – Neil Young. Floyd. The Doors. The Beatles. Stones. So even now, to this day, it’s the music I listen to a lot of the time.
So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I’ve got a lot in common with everybody else.
I’m not exactly a huge Beatles fan, but when I have a chance to visit a legendary place like the Beatles museum, I definitely use it. It’s historic.
I like records that are all over the place. That’s why I think my favorite Beatles record was always ‘The White Album.’
Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could… over 15,000 kids chanting.
I had this image before Boy George, before the Beatles, before the Rolling Stones.
I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk – not very well, but sort of.
For me, the music of the Beatles then was serious and very, very serious art. So I couldn’t take a picture of John laughing his head off or pulling funny faces because he was a serious artist, even when he was only 20.
The Beatles are the ‘on switch’ to my life.
The Beatles in 1963 came to America and became international celebrities, but Bobby Fischer was one of the first, as Elvis was, more in terms of the message created around him.
