"Larry Kane" is an American journalist, news anchor and author. Kane spent 38 years as a news anchor in Philadelphia, and is the only person to have anchored at all three Philadelphia owned and operated television stations. Early in his career, he was the only broadcast journalist to travel to every stop on the Beatles' 1964 and 1965 American tours. He has authored three books about the Beatles, as well as a memoir and a novel. Today he is the host of Voice of Reason, a weekly news analysis program on the Comcast Network, as well as a consultant for NBC and a special contributor for KYW News Radio.

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There were two people who thought they were the greatest band in the world -- Brian Epstein and John Lennon, ... Both of them felt that they'd last into the next century.

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[14As Lennon stepped off the plane, a reporter came up to him and asked a question. John slapped her before heading into a limousine, according to] Lennon Revealed, ... The @&*# asked me if I was faithful to my wife.

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The Beatles were very sensitive about the other groups, ... In the plane, they'd make a point of talking with them. There was a lot of camaraderie there.

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I think the first factor is the music. I think the second is their individuality. And I really think the third was that if you take their music today, and you played it to an audience that never heard of the Beatles, and played their 20 or 30 best songs, the music would be as fresh today as it was in 1970 or 1966. It's timeless.

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They had a wonderful sense of themselves, and they were very smart.

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Stations were crawling with record promoters. They were everywhere. They invaded a station, and they always had gifts.

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As much as the R&B people, and the gospel people, and spiritual music, and the country-western people influenced them, I think the Beatles were the bar. And they set the bar, and nobody's quite been able to jump beyond it.

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And, in all honesty, the Beatles were fascinated by the journalists' immaturity.

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