Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.quux.org!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: nyarlathotep1@hotmail.com (Norbert) Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles Subject: Godron Lightfoot Makes Note Of the Beatles Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:47:57 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2542069"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="jHSG7cE2S9tCiwNMo3DGhaiamUtTAcQZosSD3d15Pig"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Posting-User: 6048208f8e4825d9cf9eefdf20568224fc305389 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$kx0yFoMQEPQMwpCFWyOORuZDmDKpVnUm8X0TK483Umqg4/yO06dGC Bytes: 1699 Lines: 13 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.