Random House : Book extract from The Beatles At No. 1:
"Many UK pop musicians have since recalled sensing something epochal in LOVE ME DO when it first appeared. Crude as it was compared to The Beatles' later achievements, it blew a stimulating autumn breeze through an enervated pop scene, heralding a change in the tone of post-war British life matched by the contemporary appearances of the first James Bond film, Dr No, and BBC TV's live satirical programme That Was The Week That Was. From now on, social influence in Britain was to swing away from the old class-based order of deference to 'elders and betters' and succumb to the frank and fearless energy of 'the younger generation'. The first faint chime of a revolutionary bell, LOVE ME DO represented far more than the sum of its simple parts. A new spirit was abroad: artless yet unabashed - and awed by nothing."
