“All you need to succeed, really, is talent, for sure. And talent requires a lot of sweat and a lot of work and a lot of failure. And you need courage and you need to be real. And you need not to think you’re owed anything because you’re not.”...
“Inevitably just about everybody who showed me their work would start by saying ‘This, oh, uh, it’s not very good this, but, uh, uh…’ to which I would of course have to say, ‘Well, why are you showing it to me, then?’ You’ve got to believe in your stuff...
“He and I go to see the Beatles perform and I said, ‘What’s that guitar John Lennon’s playing?’ He said, ‘I think it’s a Rickenbacker,’ I said, off the top of my head, ‘Why don’t we go to the manager of the...
Mike Byrne created The Beatles Story Exhibition in Liverpool in 1990 with his wife, Bernadette, who was a Cavern Club regular who knew the Beatles well in the early years and became one of the first official Beatles Guides in Liverpool. Mike was a fellow Merseybeat...
