" We called ourselves The Reasonably Good Band, but in fact we weren't. Our intention was to be the Beatles of the early eighties, but we got much better financial and legal advice than the Beatles ever did, which was basically 'Don't bother,' so we didn't. I left Cambridge and starved for three years. "

― Douglas Adams , Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)