700 The Beatles “Can’t Buy Me Love” 1964

“Elvis Presley’s press conferences were all deferential: he even called reporters sir and ma’am. The Beatles were not that way. Asked to sing, they refused. Pressed by a reporter who said there was doubt that they could sing, Lennon said drily, ‘we need money first’. Asked why their music excited teenagers, McCartney deadpanned, ‘we don’t know, really’, to which Lennon added, ‘if we did we’d form another group and be managers’” (Allan Kozinn, The Beatles, 1995). 

The Beatles “Can’t Buy Me Love”