Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

by Mark Lewisohn

As Tony Calder remembers, the young journalist who interviewed the Beatles “was a horrible, Bri-Nylon white-shirted guy with acne and supposed power because he worked for a magazine ‘people wanted to be in.’ He made it clear he didn’t really feel like giving the Beatles his valuable time, and said to them at the start, ‘Guitar groups are finished. It’s over. It’ll never happen again.’ ” After a few minutes of hard answers to soft questions, John Lennon unilaterally terminated the interview. “John just couldn’t take any more of it. He looked at me and said, ‘Let’s fucking get out of here, the cunt’—and, as he rose, he managed to accidentally-on-purpose tip up the man’s desk, which knocked over and broke one of Stigwood’s plaster busts. Those busts summed up the state of the business at the time the Beatles arrived—it was a symbolic moment.”