She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.

the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less

I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.

So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.

My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.