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The Beatles had already formed by the time Elvis Presley’s music first started playing on the BBC, but that doesn’t mean his music didn’t still have a profound effect on the group. “Elvis songs weren’t played until the late 1950s over here because the BBC would never play that sort of stuff,” explained Paul Endacott in an exclusive interview with Express.

In a 1975 interview with Geoffrey and Brenda Giuliano, John Lennon talked about the first time he heard Presley: “When I first heard Heartbreak Hotel, I could hardly make out what was being said. … We’d never heard American voices singing like that” (via Express). For Lennon and the rest of The Beatles, they were more familiar with Frank Sinatra and other crooners than anyone else coming out of America. Once Elvis’ music was introduced, though, it was a game-changer for the fledgling band. “Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis,” Lennon told Hunter Davies (via Express). “Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.”

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