Godron Lightfoot Makes Note Of the Beatles

Gordon Lightfoot was living and working in London when Beatlemania
erupted.  Late in life, he recalled:
"When the Beatles burst on the scene, I watched it with my own eyes on
TV. 'I'll give it five [out of five],' the girl on Juke Box Jury would
say.  They'd have a panel, and they'd rate the singles of the week on
the television show.  And every time those Beatles came on, everybody in
the panel would give them a "five" at the same time.  All you had to do
was take one look and -- boom -- there it was:  'These guys can't miss,'
you thought.  Immediately, they had about five other acts imitating
them.  The Rolling Stones came out about a week after them, and they,
too, were all over the charts."
-- Gordon Lightfoot, quoted in Nicholas Jennings' biography of him.