GEORGE HARRISON 1963 (regarding the Liverpool sound) Q: "George, what is the status of rock & roll in England today? Is that what you call your music?" GEORGE: "No, not really. We don't like to call it anything. The critics and the people who write about it have to call it something... and they didn't want to say it was rock & roll because rock was supposed to have gone out about five years ago. They decided it wasn't really rhythm and blues, so they called it the Liverpool sound... which is stupid, really. As far as we are concerned it's the same as the rock from five years ago." Q: "Can you describe the Liverpool sound?" GEORGE: "It's more like old rock... but everything's just a bit louder. There's more bass and drums, and everybody sort of sings loud and shouts."

JOHN LENNON 1963 (regarding the beginnings of The Beatles) JOHN: "We started and finished several groups until we got one together that had the beginnings of a new sound. By then George had joined us. We began to do well as semi-pros. Then one day our big break came with an offer to appear at The Star Club in Hamburg. This is a kind of super-Cavern, where just about everyone who is anyone on the Liverpool scene has played at some time or another."

 

PAUL McCARTNEY 1963 (on left-handedness) PAUL: "The only thing I couldn't cure myself of was being left-handed. I do everything with my left hand, and no matter how I try I can't change the habit. I just seem to do everything back to front. I used to even write backwards. Every time the schoolmasters would look at my handwriting they would throw swinging fits."

JOHN LENNON 1963 (on 'Goon-type' humor) Q: "John, it's said that you have the most 'Goon-type' humor of the four Beatles." JOHN: "Who said that?" Q: "I think I read it in one of the newspapers." JOHN: "You know what the newspapers are like." Q: "What are they like?" JOHN: "Wrong." Q: (laughs) "This is going wrong... I want to get a nice 'Personality' bit." JOHN: "I haven't got a nice personality." Q: (laughs) "Is this evidence of Goon-type humor?" JOHN: "No, I don't think I really have Goon-type humor. That's just an expression people use." Q: "You were interested in poetry in school." JOHN: "Who said?" Q: "It's printed in a book compiled by the Beatles and entitled, 'The Beatles.'" JOHN: (laughs) "I haven't read that book."

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