Beatles vs. Stones (43 page)

“We need money first”
:
As quoted in Norman,
John Lennon
, 346.

“Count the money”
:
http://www.beatlemoney.com/john6063.htm
.

“Spend it”
:
Beatles Press Conference, Melbourne, June 14, 1964.

“A lot”
:
Beatles Press Conference, Kansas City, September 17, 1964.

“Only how to make”
:
Beatles Press Conference, Montreal, September 9, 1964.

“More money than”
:
Beatles Interview, Doncaster, December 1, 1963.

“If they’ve got enough rubles”
:
Beatles Press Conference, September 3, 1964.

“Somebody said to me”
:
As quoted in David Bennahum, ed.,
The Beatles After the Break-Up: In Their Own Words
(Omnibus Press, 1991), p. 19.

“We’d be idiots to”
:
“Interview with the Beatles,”
Playboy
(February 1965).

(It would take more)
:
The mathematician who solved the riddle was Jason Brown, using a calculation known as Fourier. With computer software, he was able to identify distinct frequencies that revealed exactly what notes were played on the chord. (Simultaneously, George strummed a twelve-string guitar, John loudly strummed his six-string, Paul played a note on his bass, George Martin hit the piano.)

“This is going to surprise you”
:
As quoted in Barry Miles,
The British Invasion: The Music, the Times, the Era
(New York: Sterling, 2009), 68.

“the
Citizen Kane
of”
:
See Bob Neaverson, “A Hard Day’s Night,” in Sean Egan, ed.,
The
Mammoth Book of the Beatles
(London: Constable & Robinson, 2009), 373.

“a genius of the”
:
As quoted in Norman,
John Lennon
, 360.

“anyone who fears the”
:
As quoted in Spitz,
The Beatles
, 496.

“He turned on me”
:
Melly,
Revolt into Style
, 77. In one of his last interviews, in
Playboy
in 1980, Lennon confirmed that that was really his view: “I thought we were the best fucking group in the goddamn world. . . . As far as we were concerned, we were the best, but we thought we were the best before anybody else had even heard of us, back in Hamburg and Liverpool.”

“Cartoonists had a field day”
:
As quoted in Braun,
Love Me Do,
70.

“We couldn’t help it”
:
As quoted in Davies,
The Beatles
, 192.

“There’s
many
polls”
:
Beatles Press Conference, September 17, 1964. “They won it last year too, that one,” Lennon added with a chuckle. “You know, I mean, that’s
their
poll.”

Are you worried about
:
See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkFAf63FjgY
.

“Yes!”
:
Ray Coleman, “Rebels with a Beat,” in
Melody Maker
(March 14, 1964).

“Tell me, Mr. Coleman”
:
Chris Welch, “Obituary: Ray Coleman,”
The Independent
(September 13, 1996).

“They look like boys”
:
Judith Simons,
Daily Express
(February 28, 1964).

“looked as if they had been”
:
As quoted in Wyman,
Stone Alone,
233.

“I don’t know if the people”
:
As quoted in Ed Ward, Geoffrey Stokes, and Ken Tucker,
Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986), 283.

“He’d send money orders”
:
Marc Spitz,
Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue
(New York: Gotham, 2011), 25.

“Beatles fans were not”
:
Hans Oosterbaan, in
Love You Live, Rolling Stones: Fanfare from the Common Fan
(Springfield, PA: Fanfare Publishing, 2002) 29.

“The Rolling Stones Gather”
:
“Rolling Stones Gather No Lunch,”
Daily Express
(May 11, 1964).

“imitating the Stones’ hairstyle”
:
“Beatle Your Rolling Stone Hair,”
Daily Mirror
(May 27, 1964).

“American music critic Anthony DeCurtis”
:
Fornatale,
Fifty Licks,
25.

“had to sneak the records and”
:
As quoted in Oldham,
2Stoned
, 284.

“Nobody was particularly”
:
Richards,
Life
, 166.

“indicated their pleasure or displeasure”
:
As quoted in Mark Paytress, ed.,
The Rolling Stones: Off the Record
(London: Omnibus Press, 2003), 62.

“an utter disgrace”
:
As quoted in Wyman,
Stone Alone
, 238.

“effete posturing”
:
As quoted in Wyman,
Stone Alone
, 242.

“Get off my forecourt”
:
A forecourt is an open area or courtyard in front of a building’s entrance. The term is used more often in England than in the United States.

“Whether it is the Rolling Stones”
:
As quoted in Wyman,
Stone Alone
, 306.

“The notion that the Stones”
:
Marc Spitz,
Jagger
, 75–76.

Sometimes they claimed they
:
In the June 1964
Rolling Stones Book
(the premier issue), Bill Wyman was asked in a Q&A interview why, before he’d met the Stones, he’d left his job as a retail storekeeper?

“Oh—I had to leave,” he said. “Because of my hair. You see, I’d let it grow and grow and people started giving me curious looks. . . . I either had to have a haircut or leave the firm. So I left.”

The story is almost certainly not true. In his memoir, Wyman says that before he met the Stones, he looked like an ordinary civilian. In fact, he says that when he was introduced to Jagger, Jones, and Richards at a Chelsea pub in December 1962, he was taken aback by their appearance. They “had hair down over their ears and looked very scruffy—Bohemian and arty,” he said. “This was quite a shock: in the pop world I came from, smartness was automatic. I was neatly dressed,
as for work
, with a Tony Curtis hairstyle. My entire demeanor clashed with their unkempt look. People with casual, shabby jackets and trousers were not the sort of people I normally mixed with” [Emphasis added].

“I happen to be particularly”
:
Keith Altham, “The Rolling Stones: This Is a Stone Age!”
NME Summer Special
(1966).

“I don’t particularly care either”
:
“The Hair Stays Long So Hard Luck!”
Melody Maker
(March 28, 1964).

“So what? They”
:
As quoted in Massimo Bonanno, ed.,
The Rolling Stones Chronicle: The First Thirty Years
(New York: Henry Holt, 1990), 24.

“My hair is not a gimmick”
:
“The Hair Stays Long So Hard Luck!”
Melody Maker
(March 28, 1964).

Suggestions that the Stones
:
As quoted in Wyman,
Stone Alone
, 170. “Demob suits” was pejorative slang for conventional, unimaginative attire. The phrase comes from the cheap, mass-produced “demobilization suits” that British servicemen were issued after they returned from World War Two, in order to ease their transition into civilian life.

“I’m fed up with people saying”
:
Rolling Stones Monthly Book
, Issue 1 (June 1964), 2.

“Keith and I will talk”
:
As quoted in
According to the Rolling Stones
, 68.

(“like palm trees in a hurricane”)
:
As quoted in
Rave
magazine (1964).

“We’d walk into some”
:
As quoted in Davis,
Old Gods
, 83.

“The way he performed”
:
Peter Whitehead, the filmmaker who shot the Stones’ first (and rarely seen) documentary film,
Charlie Is My Darling
, in 1965, said something similar. “Mick was right out there at the front just rubbing up against every single person in the audience, just touching them up, just masturbating them. The boys as well, that was what was extraordinary . . . don’t think it was just the girls. The boys were standing at the front weeping! ‘
Miiick
!’ ” In 1964, when the Rolling Stones appeared on
The Mike Douglas Show,
the host asked, “Is there one of you five who seems to be more popular with the young ladies than the others?” and Brian Jones chimed in, “Mick’s more popular with the men.” “He’s putting you on!” Jagger protested.

“I was trapped in a field”
:
Patti Smith, “Rise of the Sacred Monsters,”
Creem
(1973).

“crap,” “awful,” “full of rubbish”
:
As quoted in
Sounds
(October 29, 1977).

“he’s my cleaner”
:
As quoted in Nicky Haslam,
Redeeming Features: A Memoir
(New York: Knopf, 2009), 142.

“He’s great”
:
As quoted in Spitz,
Jagger
, 40.

“was crying and shouting at him”
:
Marianne Faithfull,
Faithfull: An Autobiography
(New York: Cooper Square Press, 2012), 20.

“famous, plate-throwing”
:
As quoted in Carey Schofield,
Jagger
(London: Methuen, 1983), 100.

“Mick would cry a lot”
:
As quoted in Norman,
Mick Jagger
(New York: Ecco, 2012), 105.

“growing charisma”
:
Oldham,
Stoned
, 47.

“We’d be walking down the street”
:
As quoted in Norman,
Mick Jagger
, 105.

“Mick liked to imagine”
:
Norman,
The Stones
, 99.