They had a wonderful sense of themselves, and they were very smart,

[14As Lennon stepped off the plane, a reporter came up to him and asked a question. John slapped her before heading into a limousine, according to] Lennon Revealed, ... The @&*# asked me if I was faithful to my wife.

I think that their impact is yet to be felt, their full impact. First of all, their music is now listened to as part of the psyche of everybody, day in and day out. It's the most recorded music in the world, the most copied music in the world, the most enviable music in the world. It's inspired thousands and thousands of artists. Culturally they've had a tremendous impact on the entire 20th century.

As much as the R&B people, and the gospel people, and spiritual music, and the country-western people influenced them, I think the Beatles were the bar. And they set the bar, and nobody's quite been able to jump beyond it.

Stations were crawling with record promoters. They were everywhere. They invaded a station, and they always had gifts,

There were two people who thought they were the greatest band in the world -- Brian Epstein and John Lennon, ... Both of them felt that they'd last into the next century.