Godron Lightfoot Makes Note Of the Beatles
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nyarlathotep1@nyarlathotep1@hotmail.com (Norbert) to
rec.music.beatles on Mon Mar 31 13:47:57 2025
From Newsgroup: rec.music.beatles
Gordon Lightfoot was living and working in London when Beatlemania
erupted. Late in life, he recalled:
"When the Beatles burst on the scene, I watched it with my own eyes on
TV. 'I'll give it five [out of five],' the girl on Juke Box Jury would
say. They'd have a panel, and they'd rate the singles of the week on
the television show. And every time those Beatles came on, everybody in
the panel would give them a "five" at the same time. All you had to do
was take one look and -- boom -- there it was: 'These guys can't miss,'
you thought. Immediately, they had about five other acts imitating
them. The Rolling Stones came out about a week after them, and they,
too, were all over the charts."
-- Gordon Lightfoot, quoted in Nicholas Jennings' biography of him.
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