Fact #178333
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Short story:
Please Please Me by The Beatles reaches No1 in the NME singles chart, sharing the slot with The Wayward Wind by Frank Ifield.
Full article:
George Martin (producer) : Once we had our first No1 (on some UK charts) under our belt with Please Please Me, Brian (Beatles' manager Brian Epstein) and I worked out a grand plan of campaign. A single would be released every three months and an album every six. I quickly realised I had to have an album. I knew the boys had a big repertoire from the Cavern and from their knowledge of American records. I said, 'I'll just record everything you've got. That's how the first album was made.
Bruce Welch (guitarist, Cliff Richard and The Shadows] : We knew they'd be enormous because of the songs, which were terrific. We'd already been going for five years by then, though, so we were the establishment, the guys in tuxes and silk shirts, the Rat Pack of British pop, and The Beatles overturned all of that.
But, at the same time, those mid-sixties years were the most successful we ever had in terms of the number of hits we had and the amount of records we were selling.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, August 2008)
John Miles (manager, based in Bristol) : When The Beatles happened, I was talking to my opposite number Danny Betesh in Manchester. We were wondering whether we should go to work in London, but Danny said why bother? He'd heard that after they'd scoured Liverpool for talent, the big record companies would then be doing Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol in that order.
It was all right for Danny. They were in Manchester instantly, signing up all his best acts - Herman's Hermits, Freddie And The Dreamers, Wayne Fontana... Then they went on down to Birmingham and lost so much money that they never did bother with Bristol...
(Source : Western Daily Press interview by John Hudson, June 2006)
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Bruce Welch (guitarist, Cliff Richard and The Shadows] : We knew they'd be enormous because of the songs, which were terrific. We'd already been going for five years by then, though, so we were the establishment, the guys in tuxes and silk shirts, the Rat Pack of British pop, and The Beatles overturned all of that.
But, at the same time, those mid-sixties years were the most successful we ever had in terms of the number of hits we had and the amount of records we were selling.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, August 2008)
John Miles (manager, based in Bristol) : When The Beatles happened, I was talking to my opposite number Danny Betesh in Manchester. We were wondering whether we should go to work in London, but Danny said why bother? He'd heard that after they'd scoured Liverpool for talent, the big record companies would then be doing Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol in that order.
It was all right for Danny. They were in Manchester instantly, signing up all his best acts - Herman's Hermits, Freddie And The Dreamers, Wayne Fontana... Then they went on down to Birmingham and lost so much money that they never did bother with Bristol...
(Source : Western Daily Press interview by John Hudson, June 2006)