"They are stepping far ahead of their audience, recording music so complex and so unlike the music that made them successful that they could very likely lose the foundation of their support. But that possibility does not bother them in the least." – Life Magazine, 1967"A decisive moment in Western civilization." – Kenneth Tynan, The Times of London, 1967"I don't want to be a Mop Top." – John Lennon, 1967By the summer of 1966, the Beatles we...

"They've got their own groups. What are we going to give America that they don't already have?"– Paul McCartney"They give the teenagers something that thrills them, a vision. The boys and girls of this age are young men and women looking for something in life that can't always be found, a joie de vivre."– Leopold Stokowski, American Symphony Orchestra Conductor"I knew England would get even with us for the Boston Tea Party."– An American barberT...

In 1937, it seemed as if Cary Grant had it all: the fame and fortune of being a leading man for one of Hollywood’s biggest studios, with a life of luxury that was a world away from the hardship and misery he knew growing up in Bristol, England.But all that glitters is not gold. Grant felt that he had no say in the development of his own career, and he was seeing signs that the studio was losing interest in him—other than to just be a handsome face. He yearned for b...