Speech: Brian Epstein
Well, the recording test came and went.
The people that decide about these things at
Decca said 'no'.
Well, you can imagine I was more worried about what I was going to say to the boys, having built up their hopes.
So I allowed myself a final 24 hours to exhaust the remaining disc companies and I booked into the
Green
Park
Hotel.
In the morning I took a cab to the EMI office block in
Manchester
Square,
London, to meet the man who would within less than 2 years produce 16 number one discs by my artists