Bill Maher

And then the crowd would, you know, the people in the audience would write in and say, oh, we love that.

I mean, many singles like that have been broken that way.

I don't know if that's how it happened or it was just the noise from overseas was getting deafening.

And finally, Capitol put money behind him.

I suppose they put money behind him.

Right.

Finally.

Capitol Records, which EMI owned, you know, at that point they were with EMI.

They must have told them you've got to do it.

But they always said they didn't want to go to America until they had a number one.

And then they did.

Yeah.

It's funny, they were in, I think, Paris when they heard.

They came here, this is February, so they came here.

Yeah, they're playing the Olympia or something in Paris.

And not enjoying it.

The only place in the world, it's so indicative of the French, the only place in the world that stuck their nose up at Beatlemania was France.

They were like, we don't know what this phenomenon is all about.

They are talented, I suppose, but are they Charles Aznavour?

I do not think so.