The Beatles: George, M.B.E., Always Knew...
Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 12 June 1965
SO THE Beatles have the MBE; they may be pleased but I doubt whether they're surprised. If they'd been made dukes I doubt whether they would have been surprised. In the last two years they have been so indulged by the British public that any mantle of fame would sit snugly on their shoulders.
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