According to Lennon in 1972, The Beatles ' music publisher Dick James was quite pleased with " No Reply ":

According to some reports, Lennon left Rishikesh because he felt personally betrayed by rumours that Maharishi had made sexual advances toward Mia Farrow's sister Prudence, who had accompanied The Beatles on their trip.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, The Beatles is The Beatles ' best-selling album at 19-times platinum and the tenth-best-selling album of all time in the United States.

According to biographers of McCartney and the Beatles, McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then girlfriend Jane Asher and her family.

According to Allmusic's Richie Unterberger, the very first use of feedback on a rock record is the introduction of the song " I Feel Fine " by The Beatles, recorded in 1964.

According to Meniketti and Haze, Leonard chose the name of the album that was playing on his turntable at that moment --" Yesterday & Today "-- an early album from The Beatles ' LP of the same name.

According to author George Gunby, Epstein told The Beatles ' publicist Alistair Taylor that Stigwood had originally offered to buy NEMS, but the deal eventually became a merger, in which Stigwood would have to put all his company assets into NEMS ; in return he would received a reciprocal shareholding in NEMS, plus a salary, an executive position as co-managing director, and access to all of NEMS now-considerable financial and other resources.

According to Joseph Murrell's The Book of Golden Discs ( 1978 ), " Mungomania " was possibly the most startling and unpredicted pop phenomenon to hit Britain since The Beatles.

According to Mark Lewisohn in The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, on 4 July 1969, The Beatles paused the dubbing session for their song " Golden Slumbers " to listen to Haydon-Jones beat King for the Wimbledon title, live on radio.

According to some sources, he was the inspiration for the Beatles song A Day In The Life.

According to his Twitter profile, Hanson is a fan of Liverpool FC, The Beatles, George Harrison and a film nut.

According to Clinton Heylin, author of Bootleg: The Rise & Fall of the Secret Recording Industry, the five most bootlegged artists are The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.

According to Lennon in the International Times: " The first dope, from a Benzedrine inhaler, was given to the Beatles ( John, George, Paul and Stuart ) by an English cover version of Allen Ginsberg — one Royston Ellis, known as ' beat poet ' ...

According to McCartney the song might have been excluded from The Beatles album, but Pattie Boyd " liked it very much so we decided to leave it on the album.

According to his mother, both she and her son maintained friendly relations with all of The Beatles except for Lennon, who by Cooke de Herrera's account was " a genius " but distant and contemptuous of the wealthy American Cooke de Herrera and her clean-cut, college-attending son.

According to Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, an early outtake of " Sexy Sadie " features Lennon demonstrating the song's original working lyrics to the rest of the band: " Maharishi, you little twat / Who the fuck do you think you are ?/ Who the fuck do you think you are ?/ Oh, you cunt.

According to music critic Richie Unterberger of allmusic, " Several songs on 1964's Beatles for Sale, as well as " I'll Cry Instead " from A Hard Day's Night, had leaned in a country and western direction.

According to Lennon in a 1972 interview, The Beatles ' music publisher Dick James was quite pleased with " No Reply ":

According to Robert Fontenont of About. com, this was Kurt Cobain's favourite Beatles song, and was played by Nirvana whenever there were technical problems at their concerts.

According to music critic Richie Unterberger, while the lyrics tell a story of romantic rejection, " I'm a Loser " is one of the first Beatles compositions that " goes beyond young love " including " the hypocrisy of keeping up a happy face when your world's falling down ".

According to critic Richie Unterberger of Allmusic, " I'm Down " is " one of the most frantic rockers in the entire Beatles ' catalog.

According to Allmusic critic Matthew Greenwald, the song was an attempt to Boyce and Hart to write a song like The Beatles ' " Yesterday.

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

According to Stalin's biographer, Simon Sebag Montefiore, the Boss was well aware that Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Bulgakov were geniuses, but ordered their writings suppressed.

According to biographer Carol Easton, Beatrice grew up in a middle-class English household.

According to biographer Keay Davidson, Sagan's " inner war " was a result of his close relations with both his parents, who were in many ways " opposites ".

According to biographer Ray Spangenburg, these early years as Sagan tried to understand the mysteries of the planets, became a " driving force in his life, a continual spark to his intellect, and a quest that would never be forgotten.

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

According to Capra biographer Joseph McBride, Capra " obviously felt a strong identification with the story of a Jewish immigrant who grows up in the ghetto of New York ... and feels he has to deny his ethnic origins to rise to success in America.

According to Fabius ' biographer Plutarch, Fabius possessed a mild temper and slowness in speaking.

According to biographer John Newsinger,

According to Handel's first biographer, John Mainwaring, he " had discovered such a strong propensity to Music, that his father who always intended him for the study of the Civil Law, had reason to be alarmed.

According to Gardner's first biographer, Jack Bracelin, Com was very flirtatious and " clearly looked on these trips as mainly manhunts ", viewing Gardner as a nuisance.

According to the biographer Esther Forbes, the Guy Fawkes Day celebration in the pre-revolutionary American colonies was a very popular holiday.

According to Berry's biographer Mark A. Moore, " The song ( with backing vocals, plus additional instruments added by the Ernie Freeman combo ) had a raucous R & B flavor, with a bouncing bomp-bomp vocal hook that would become a signature from Jan on future recordings.

According to biographer Julie Phillips, the suicide note Sheldon left was written years earlier, and saved until needed.

According to Landis biographer J. G.

According to Moon biographer Tony Fletcher's, Moon's toilet pyrotechnics began in 1965 when he purchased 500 cherry bombs.

According to his biographer, the Chevalier became a great admirer of Lucrezia's, considering her a " pearl among women ".

According to one Rand biographer, most people first read Rand's works in their " formative years.

According to his biographer in the Liber Pontificalis, Innocent was the son of a man called Innocens of Albano, but according to his contemporary Jerome, his father was Pope Anastasius I ( 399 – 401 ), whom he was called by the unanimous voice of the clergy and laity to succeed ( he had been born before his father's entry to the clergy ).

According to his early biographer Willibald, Boniface started to chop the oak down, when suddenly a great wind, as if by miracle, blew the ancient oak over.

According to Rolling Stone journalist and biographer David Sinclair, " Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh and Sporty were the most widely recognised group of individuals since John, Paul, George, and Ringo ".

According to biographer McFeely, historians overwhelmingly agree that his intemperance at the time was a fact, though there are no eyewitness reports extant.

According to biographer McFeely, this discontent may have been responsible for Grant's ill-considered issuance of General Orders No. 11 on December 17, 1862.

According to another Grant biographer, Jean E. Smith, it was " one of the most blatant examples of state-sponsored anti-Semitism in American history.

According to biographer McFeely, as the siege began, Grant lapsed into a two day drinking episode.