Bill Maher
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Okay.
Dorking, I suppose, for a year.
Then we lived in... Okay, so you were very...
You know, you were in the country where it was happening.
Yeah.
I mean, obviously they were in the north because that's Liverpool.
Well, 1963 is the year the Beatles went crazy big, but only in England.
In England, yeah.
We didn't know who the fuck they were.
No.
I mean, they said Ed Sullivan saw them.
Yes, he saw the crowd at the airport.
So suddenly Capitol got behind us.
They didn't have a record label, that's part of the reason.
She Loves You was issued on Swan.
Swan, that's right, yeah.
Swan Records, which was, you know, like a guy with a fax machine in his mother's basement.
It was, you know, nothing.
So you know, there was no press behind it.
Now, very often what happened in America was a disc jockey would love a song and start playing it.