"You have reminded us that history is not preserved only in master tapes, famous photographs, contracts, and concert halls. Sometimes history survives in a toy left on a bedroom floor, a button pinned to a teenager's coat, or a novelty record pressed in the moment of a magnificent madness, or a piece of merchandise that just someone had the wisdom and perhaps the good fortune not to throw away.

Your work gives those objects their voices back. And more importantly, you help us understand that Beatle Mania was never simply something people watched or listened to. It was something they wore, carried, collected, laughed about, argued over, and welcomed into their homes. It transformed for musicians into a cultural language understood around the world. And Terry Crain has devoted himself to preserving that language: one artifact, one document, one recording, and one wonderful unexpected discovery at a time.

Thank you for your meticulous research skills, your educator's generosity, and for proving that even the wildest corners of Beatles history deserve to be taken seriously without ever losing their sense of fun, and reminding us that sometimes the smallest souvenir can carry the biggest story."

- James D. Jones