The black eye
Some of the fans – a couple of them – were shouting ‘Pete is best!’ and ‘Ringo never, Pete Best forever!’, but it was a small group and we ignored it. However, after about half an hour our it was getting a bit tiring so I shouted to the audience. When we stepped out of the band room into the dark tunnel, some guy nodded me one, giving me a black eye. The things we have to do for Ringo! – George Harrison (The Beatles Anthology)
(via bestbeatlesmemes)
The Beatles are the only pop group in the history of pop music that are actually better than everyone says they are. Ever had that feeling when listening to a new artist that you’d be waiting all your life to hear this music, while not even being aware that you were waiting? Imagine a whole planet feeling like that. Even 42 years after they fell apart The Beatles’ records retain every ounce of raw power. That’s not nostalgia. If it were, no one under 50 would listen. These records have been pored over for six decades, yet the magical mystery of why no one has ever made better ones remains. We won’t ever see their like again. And here’s the challenge that has faced every person who has written a pop song in the last 50 years: perhaps they were just so good, that we’ll never really need to. Now that really is an uncomfortable truth.
— Rob Fitzpatrick on The Beatles (via safety-in-the-clouds)
