"The Shaggs are better than the Beatles."
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January 1, 1970

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Popularly misattributed to musician and outsider music auteur Frank Zappa. The description of The Shaggs, a notoriously inept garage rock girl group from the 1960s, as being "better than the Beatles" was actually the work of Lester Bangs. Zappa did hold the group in high regard, despite not using the phrase.