↑ Original: "Guitar groups are on the way out, Mr. Epstein"
↑ Original: "Look, if you really want to get in these bigger places, you're going to have to change-stop eating on stage, stop swearing, stop smoking"
↑ Original: "We used to dress how we liked, on and off stage. He'd tell us that jeans were not particularly smart and could we possibly manage to wear proper trousers, but he did not want us suddenly looking square. he'd let us have our own sense of individuality ... it was a choice of making it or still eating chicken on stage ".
↑ Original: "the acoustic ambience of an oil tank"
↑ Original: "Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh, precisely because of its intense origins."
↑ Original: "just writing songs à la Everly Brothers, à la Buddy Holly, pop songs with no more thought of them than that-to create a sound. And the words were almost irrelevant."
↑ Original: "a sequel of the highest order-one that betters the original by developing its own tone and adding depth."
↑ Original: "the outstanding English composers of 1963"
↑ Original: “could not carry a tune across the Atlantic”
↑ Original: the Beatles is" truly coming into their own as a band. All of the disparate influences on their first two albums had coalesced into a bright, joyous, original sound, filled with ringing guitars."
↑ Original: "Material's becoming a hell of a problem".
↑ Original: "Help! Was great but it was not our filem-we were sort of guest stars. It was fun, but basically, as an idea for a film, it was a bit wrong."
↑ Original: "recovered the sense of direction that had begun to elude them during the later stages of work on Beatles for Sale"
↑ Original: "If I'd said television was more popular than Jesus, I might have got away with it."
↑ Original: " if you want me to apologise, if that will make you happy, then okay, I'm sorry."
↑ Original: "the sound of a band growing into supreme confidence"
↑ Original: "redefining what was expected from popular music."
↑ Original: "woven with motifs of circularity, reversal, and inversion"
↑ Original: "a true hybrid, conforming to no recognizable style or genre of song."
↑ Original: "The Beatles insisted that everything on Sgt. Pepper had to be different. We had microphones right down in the bells of brass instruments and headphones turned into microphones attached to violins. We used giant primitive pengayun to vary the speed of instruments and vocals and we had tapes chopped to pieces and stuck together upside down and the wrong way round."
↑ Original: "a rich, sustained, and overflowing work of collaborative genius whose bold ambition and startling originality dramatically enlarged the possibilities and raised the expectations of what the experience of listening to popular music on record could be. On the basis of this perception, Sgt. Pepper became the catalyst for an explosion of mass enthusiasm for album-formatted rock that would revolutionize both the aesthetics and the economics of the record business in ways that far outstripped the earlier pop explosions triggered by the Elvis phenomenon of 1956 and the Beatlemania phenomenon of 1963".
↑ Original: "It 's unwise ever to assume that they're doing only one thing or expressing themselves in only one style ... one kind of feeling about a subject is not enough ... any single induced feeling must often exist within the context of seemingly contradictory alternatives."
↑ Original: "We write songs. We know what we mean by them. But in a week someone else says something about it, and you can not deny it ... you put your own meaning at your own level to our songs".
↑ Original: "brightly coloured parodies of military uniforms"
↑ Original: "anti-authoritarian and anti-establishment".
↑ Original: "I did not have any misconceptions about our ability to do anything other than play music and I was scared."
↑ Original: "I knew that we were in trouble then ... I thought, We've fuckin 'had it now."
↑ Original: "it 's like if you took each track off it and made it all mine and all Paul's... just me and a backing group, Paul and a backing group, and I enjoyed it. We broke up then."
↑ Original: "Up to that point, the world was a problem, but we were not "which had always been" the best thing about the Beatles."
↑ Original: "The critical response... ranged from mixed to flat. In marked contrast to Sgt. Pepper, which had helped to establish an entire genre of literate rock criticism, the White Album inspired no critical writing of any note. Even the most sympathetic reviewers... clearly did not know what to make of this shapeless outpouring of songs. Newsweek 's Hubert Saal, citing the high proportion of parodies, accused the group of getting their tongues caught in their cheeks."
↑ Original: "large and sprawling, overflowing with ideas but also with indulgences, and filled with a hugely variable array of material ... its failings are as essential to its character as its triumphs."
↑ Original: "Clearly, the Beatles' two main songwriting forces were no longer on the same page, but neither were George and Ringo"
↑ Original: "Lennon turns in two of his best ballads"
↑ Original: "the jewel of the new songs ... resplendent in swirling Mellotron, larger-than-life percussion, and tidal waves of feedback guitar ... a virtuoso excursion into otherwise hazy psychedelia".
↑ Original: "perform it before a live audience for the very first time—on record and on film. In other words make a live album of new material, which no one had ever done before."
↑ Original: "not at all a happy ... experience. It was a time when relations between The Beatles were at their lowest ebb."
↑ Original: "thought it was the end of the road for all of us... they were becoming unpleasant people—to themselves as well as to other people."
↑ Original: "a continuously moving piece of music"
↑ Original: "some of the greatest harmonies to be heard on any rock record".
↑ Original:"Had it not been for McCartney's input as designer of the Long Medley... Abbey Road would lack the semblance of unity and coherence that makes it appear better than it is."
↑ Original: "a very bad film and a touching one ... about the breaking apart of this reassuring, geometrically perfect, once apparently ageless family of siblings."
↑ Original: "on the whole underrated... McCartney in particular offers several gems: the gospel-ish 'Let It Be', which has some of his best lyrics; 'Get Back', one of his hardest rockers; and the melodic 'The Long and Winding Road', ruined by Spector's heavy-handed overdubs."
↑ Original: "People were just thinking The Beatles were like public domain. You can not just go around pilfering The Beatles 'material."
↑ Original: "After 20 years, The Beatles still have some business differences which I had hoped would have been settled by now. Unfortunately, they have not been, so I would feel like a complete hypocrite waving and smiling with them at a fake reunion."
↑ Original: “a way of re-living the whole Beatles 'musical lifespan in a very condensed period"
↑ Original: "Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there had not been Elvis, there would not have been The Beatles ".
↑ Original: "Without Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper would not have happened ... Pepper was an attempt to equal Pet Sounds."
↑ Original: "You could call our new one a Beatles 'country-and-western LP"
↑ Original: "the first overtly psychedelic Beatles’ record"
↑ Original: "to replicate the raga form in miniature"
↑ Original: "as Lennon and McCartney became progressively more ambitious in their songwriting, Martin began to function as an informal music teacher to them"
↑ Original: "Sergeant Pepper' itself did not appear until halfway through making the album. It was Paul 's song, just an ordinary rock number and not particularly brilliant as songs go ... Paul said,' Why do not we make the album as though the Pepper band really existed, as though Sergeant Pepper was making the record? We'll dub in effects and things. 'I loved the idea, and from that moment on it was as though Pepper had a life of its own."
↑ Original: “Compared with Paul's songs, all of which seemed to keep in some sort of touch with reality, John' s had a psychedelic, almost mystical quality ... John 's imagery is one of the best things about his work- "tangerine trees", "marmalade skies" , "cellophane flowers" ... I always saw him as an aural Salvador Dalí, rather than some drug-ridden record artist. On the other hand, I would be stupid to pretend that drugs did not figure quite heavily in The Beatles 'lives at that time. At the same time they knew that I, in my schoolmasterly role, did not approve ... Not only was I not into it myself, I could not see the need for it; and there 's no doubt that, if I too had been on dope, Pepper would never have been the album it was"
