We were driving through Colorado [and] we had the radio on and eight of the Top Ten songs were Beatles songs. In Colorado! 'I Want To Hold Your Hand,’ all those early ones.
They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid… But I kept it to myself that I really dug them. Everybody else thought they were for the teenyboppers, that they were gonna pass right away. But it was obvious to me that they had staying power. I knew they were pointing the direction where music had to go… in my head, The Beatles were it. In Colorado, I started thinking about it but it was so far out I couldn’t deal with it - eight in the Top Ten.
It seemed to me a definite line was being drawn. This was something that never happened before.
Bob Dylan
Quoted in In My Life: Encounters With The Beatles ed. by Robert Cording, Shelli Jankowski-Smith and E.J. Miller Laino (p 12)
You could quite easily have called this post 'If not for you'.
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