Everyone made mistakes
Mike Smith was an executive in charge of finding new talent for Decca Records in London. In 1961, he went to Liverpool to see the Beatles perform. Thinking the band had talent, Smith asked them to audition at the Decca Studios in London a couple of weeks later. The excited group went to London, and endured an intense two- hour audition. However, they were rejected. Dick Rowe, another executive at Decca Records, told the Beatles’s manager: “we don’t like your boy’s sound. Groups are out; four- piece groups with guitars particularly are finished.” He couldn’t have known how wrong he was. He must have regretted that mistake for many, many years. The group eventually signed with another record label, sold millions of records, and became one of the most popular bands in music history.
