The Beatles

"Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that I would play with The Rolling Stones and George Harrison, one of The Beatles," Leavell said.

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In the case of Nowhere Boy, "we wanted to avoid [the Beatles] at all costs," says Gregory.

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"New Moon" screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg says she learned firsthand just what she was dealing with when she attended a Comic-Con event the summer before the release of "Twilight. " "The cast came out onstage, and it really was like those documentaries of The Beatles, with the screaming," she says. "And I finally got it, like, 'Oh, my God. ' "

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His legacy: Jobs has said: "My model for business is The Beatles.

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"I think it drives a lot of what this band does, in terms of the flavor," says Derek Zimmerman, Sullo's lanky former college a cappella buddy who now plays keyboards and handles most of the vocal arrangements. "I wanted to create something that seemed sort of fantastical, but when you broke it down into its elements, was still very organic," explains Sullo, who immediately thereafter describes "taking a look back at those old '50s and '60s songs and reimagining them with modern technology that the Beatles and Os Mutantes didn't have." Either way, Dinosaur Feathers are evolving nicely-from this summer's free-download Early Morning Risers EP to the full-length scheduled for March-but Sullo still worries about his favorite paleontological theory. "It'll be interesting to see where that information goes in 20 years,"

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"I played sounds in those days I never heard. I could feel them going through my eyelids but I have no idea what they sounded like," said Thompson, who now lives in California, but spent much of the past 30 years in Europe, latterly Edinburgh. In Berkeley, a man told the band "that noise you're making killed a dog," before guitarist John Fahey landed them a gig at the New Orleans House, "a sort of supper club," Thompson said. "We cleared the joint in about three minutes. The manager came wringing his hands saying, 'please, please, I'll pay you to stop,'"

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The late rocker and archivist Cub Koda once wrote for the All Music Guide that "Quite simply, without him, there would be no Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, nor a myriad others.

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"I really think you have to put it partly in the context of the fears of Americanization. The Beatles were so huge by then and so much of the pop music was starting to come out of the UK, there was still this idea that it was somehow an American phenomenon," explains Michele Hilmes, author of several books on the radio industry and professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin. "I think there were some people in Britain who didn't see why you should just open up the airwaves to this influx of vulgar, crass, Americanized pop music."

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"But, like, I get it, you know. And I was happy when the Beatles ['Rock Band'] came out, because there's kids that probably wouldn't have discovered the Beatles any other way. And I think it's important for everyone to know about the Beatles," he continued. "It's the foundation of what we do. It's cool that now you have a 7-year-old kid that knows the chorus to 'Love Me Do,' because otherwise they probably wouldn't."

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In an interview yesterday she talked at length about her childhood: "I dreamt of The Beatles and of the outside world with all of its possibilities," she said.

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