These people looked into the future… and got it completely wrong.
Variety magazine, 1955.
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Charles Darwin, writing in the foreword to On The Origin Of Species, 1859.
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Economist Irving Fisher in October 1929, three days before the stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression.
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A Decca Records executive to the band's manager, Brian Epstein, following an audition in 1962. He continued: "We don't like your boys' sound. Groups are out. Four-piece groups with guitars, particularly, are finished."
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