Decca turns down The Beatles - February 10, 1962
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| Date | February 10, 1962 |
| Short description | Decca Records turn The Beatles down. |
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Decca officially turned The Beatles down in a business meeting with Brian Epstein. Reportedly, Brian stormed out of the meeting shouting, "You must be out of your tiny little minds! These boys are going to explode. I am completely confident that one day they will be bigger than Elvis Presley!" Because they thought he could not handle the news, the rest of the band initially did not tell Pete Best about their rejection. "I was the last to hear about it," Best recalls, "John, Paul, and George heard long before me. They let it slip out in a casual conversation one day. Why didn’t you tell me? I said. And they said they didn’t want to dishearten me." What is little known is that Decca offered a studio for The Beatles to record in for 100 pounds until they got signed. This deal was most likely given because NEMS was such a large distributor of Decca records. However, Brian's pride got in the way of him accepting this deal, and he kept looking, now with the Decca acetates with him. He would later get rejected by Pye and Phillips also.
