Hunter Davies > Quotes

“His 1984 authorised biography, The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Chas ‘Dr Rock’ White, remains the funniest and most entertaining of all rock biographies,”
― Hunter Davies, The Beatles Book

“Johnstone railway station was small, neat and tidy, quite attractive. On the platforms, I noticed that the signs also had the name in Gaelic – ‘Baile Iain’, literally ‘John’s town’. It is a recent wheeze by the triumphant, all-conquering Scottish National Party to add the Gaelic name to every station in the whole of Scotland, despite the fact that most of these places never had a Gaelic name or people who ever spoke Gaelic.”
― Hunter Davies, The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North

“Oh, being alive was heaven, back in 1967. That;s honestly how it felt.”
― Hunter Davies, The Beatles Lyrics: The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs

“Oh, being alive was heaven, back in 1967. That's honestly how it felt.”
― Hunter Davies, The Beatles Lyrics: The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs

“I was sent to a teacher called Alf Adamson, who had a country dance band that toured the Borders.”
― Hunter Davies, The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North