Hetgeen me doet denken aan John Lennon. In 1967 bleef de Beatles-single Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane op nummer 2 van de hitparade steken. Dat was al lang niet meer voorgekomen want aan deze plaat ging een hele rist van opeenvolgende nummer 1-hits vooraf. Lennons meesterwerk Strawberry Fields Forever haalde de nummer 1-positie nooit, want daarvan was toen Release Me van Engelbert Humperdinck niet weg te branden. In The Beatles Anthology reageren drie van The Fab Four in een interview op dit incident de parcours (de opvolger, All You Need Is Love, haalde gewoon weer moeiteloos de toppositie). George: "It was pretty bad, was'nt it, that Engelbert Humperdinck stopped Strawberry Fields Forever getting to Number One? But I don't think it was a worry. At first, we wanted to have good chart positions, but then I think we started taking it for granted. It might have been a bit of a shock being Number Two - but then again, there were always so many different charts that you could be Number Two in one chart and Number One in another. Paul: "It's fine if you're kept from being Number One by a record like Release Me, because you're not trying to do the same kind of thing. That's a completely different scene altogether." En dan Herr Lennon, met zijn droge Liverpudlian humor: "The charts? I read them all. There's room for everything. I don't mind Humperbert Engeldinck."
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