Bans Quote by Philip Larkin

“Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.”

— Philip Larkin

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began…

— Michael Kinsley

It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.

— Paul Simon

I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were just my…

— Alasdair MacLean

The Beatles first appeared on our show on February 9, 1964, and I have never seen any scenes to compare with the bedlam that…

— Ed Sullivan

Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing 'She…

— Gordon Lightfoot

Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.

— Merle Haggard

The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you…

— Gerry Beckley

As every teenage girl, I was absolutely obsessed with The Beatles, and the first record I bought was 'Please Please Me.' I'd have been…

— Twiggy

There were some great tunes played between '67 and '73. The Beatles were everywhere in those days, the most famous people in the world.…

— Shaun Ryder

The Beatles did everything first, and they did it the best.

— Taylor Momsen

The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it captured the…

— Paul Bley