It came to nothing. We didn’t buy an island, we came home. We were great at going on holiday with big ideas, but we never carried them out. We were also going to buy a village in England - one with rows of houses on four sides and a village green in the middle. We were going to have a side each.
That was what happened when we got out. It was safer making records, because once they let us out we’d just go barmy.
We really became the workmen who took over the factory. In the end, we had the run of the whole building. It would be us, the recording people on our session and a doorman. There would be nobody else there. It was amazing, just wandering around, having a smoke in the echo chamber. I think we knew the place better than the chairman of the company, because we LIVED there. I even got a house just round the corner, I loved it so much. I didn’t ever want to leave.
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Paul McCartney, Anthology
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Until now we’d never topped a bill. You can’t measure success, but if you could, then the minute I knew we’d been successful was when Roy Orbison asked us if he could record two of our songs.
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John Lennon, 1963 (as quoted in Anthology)
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The LP cover was photographed with us looking over the balcony at the EMI offices in Manchester Square. It was by Angus McBean - and I’ve still got the suit I wore then. (I wore it in 1990 to a party. It was a Fifties party but I cheated and wore a Sixties suit. It looked as if it fitted, but I had to have the trousers open at the top.)
- George Harrison, Anthology
As a band, we were tight, that was one thing to be said about us, we were really tight, as friends. We could argue among ourselves, but we were very, very close to each other and in the company of other people or other situations we’d always stick together.
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George Harrison, Anthology
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John Lennon: “We were so overawed by American radio, Epstein had to stop us: we phoned every radio [station] in town, saying, ‘Will you play the Ronettes doing this?’ We wanted to hear the music. We didn’t ask for our own records, we asked for other people’s. In the old days we listened to Elvis, of course, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Little Richard and Eddie Cochran, to name but a few, but now we liked Marvin Gaye, The Miracles, Shirelles, all those people.”
![John Lennon: “We were so overawed by American radio, Epstein had to stop us: we phoned every radio [station] in town, saying, ‘Will you play the Ronettes doing this?’ We wanted to hear the music. We didn’t ask for our own records, we asked for other people’s. In the old days we listened to Elvis, of course, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Little Richard and Eddie Cochran, to name but a few, but now we liked Marvin Gaye, The Miracles, Shirelles, all those people.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lssglhVeCL1qhnkvco1_400.jpg)
