he doesn’t understand that at a
certain level Norrie had a pas-
sion for Cliff Richard and a pas-
sion for his career. George just
sees it as Norrie’s making lots of
money and he’s a creep and he’s
writing B sides to get more mon-
ey. The part he’s leaving out is
Norrie cared about Cliff and, at
some point or another, said “I’m
in.” George had never done that
with anybody until the “Please
Please Me” episode.
I loved the idea of seeing the
beginning of Beatlemania from
someone within that world who
wasn’t a Beatle. Was there any-
thing that took you by surprise
about that period from Martin’s
perspective?
There sure is and I think about
it a lot. It’s still true in Volume
2 to a certain extent for a while
and that’s the issue of being a
flash in the pan. People who are
not first generation fans, and
let’s face it that’s everybody for-
ever from now on, cannot under-
stand outside of the context of
Watch a video about the day George Martin met The Beatles
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