"Get Back" was okay, I really wish they had interviewed some of today's top artists for the film. Would have liked to see Dave Grohl say that there wouldn't have been Nirvana or the Foo Fighters without the Beatles, to put the band in historical context
"There were four guys. John, Paul, George and - you know where I'm going with this - Ringo."
"Ringo, man, he was like a drum machine, you gotta remember this was -before- the invention of the drum machine"
"They called George 'the quiet one' of the group, but when he spoke, everyone listened. Well, except John"
"When 'Come Together' starts and you just hear that guitar go 'shunk shunk doo-doo-DOO, doo', you just know man, this is The Beatles right here"
"Helter Skelter, man, that's like the original punk song. Would we have punk rock without The Beatles? I dunno man, I can't answer that question. I don't WANT to answer that question"
"The first time I ever heard em, I must have been about 15, and 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' comes on the radio and I pulled over to a payphone and called my girlfriend, didn't even wait for her to pick up, I was like 'have you ever heard of this band The Beatles?'"
"I guess enough time's past I can admit it, right? The Beatles were a huge influence on Oasis. Huge. Those mellotrons on 'Morning Glory'? We nicked that from the Lads"
"Without John Lennon and Paul McCartney, there would be no Elton John and Bernie Taupin. That's the honest truth"
"The rock and roll drummer, as we know it, as we understand it, would not exist without Ringo Starr."
"We played a little rooftop concert of our own, ya know. Got into a little trouble with the law ourselves. I guess you could say it was kind of our tribute to the Lads"
"I gotta be honest with you, it took me a while to get into their early records"
(plays the end of Eleanor Rigby) "This was something you never heard in the popular music of the time"
"I remember thinking to myself, Pharrell, don't screw this up, you're performing one of Paul McCartney's songs...in FRONT OF Paul McCartney!"
"Actually one of the songs in Hamilton was inspired by the Beatles breaking up"
“The whole country was absolutely mad for these four lads from Liverpool. They even had a word for it - they called it Beatlemania!”
"When you're in a band, you're gonna find yourself in conflict with your bandmates. That's just a fact, whether you are some high school punk band or the biggest act in music. And the Beatles WERE LITERALLY the biggest act in music! I mean, you can't imagine it"
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