2014, Hank Bordowitz, Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin: Interviews and Encounters, Chicago Review Press (→ISBN):, page 27:
RY: Why do you think English bands are beginning to be stronger chartwise, than American bands again?
JPJ: The Americans have got lazy.
(Can we date this quote?), Richie Unterberger, Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers, Hal Leonard Corporation (→ISBN):, page 11:
The Pretty Things had a few big and small British hits; the Poets had one small British hit and nothing else chartwise. The Pretty Things are still going in 2000, and indeed might be better known in the United States now than they've ever been; the Poets only put out a half dozen singles, and by 1967 had changed personnel so many times as to become unrecognizable. The Pretty Things were from London; the Poets from Scotland. And so on.
2013, Mark Lewisohn, Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years, Crown Archetype ({{ISBN|9780804139342), page 474:
This was studio set jungle music purveyed skillfully in a chartwise direction by arrangement with the A & R men. The Beatles, therefore, exploded on a jaded scene. And to those people on the verge of quitting teendom—those who had experienced during their most impressionable years the impact of rhythm 'n' blues music (raw rock 'n' roll)—this was an experience, a process of regaining and reliving a style of sounds and associated feelings identifiable with their era. Here again, in ...
