mistake : A record label rejected The Beatles.
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 Studio 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 Record,told The Beatles's manager:"We don't like your boy's sound.Group are out;four-piece groups with guitar particularly are finished." He couldn't have know how wrong he was.He must have regretted that mistake for many,many years.The group eventually signed with another record label, sold million of records, and became one of the most popular bands in music history.