10 Ways The Music Industry Owes John Hughes Big Time

5. The Beatles' "Twist and Shout" Charted Again, Thanks To Ferris

And you thought Ferris was just a malingering slacker. That iconic parade scene in which the film's protagonist leads a city block to sing the Beatles' rendition of "Twist and Shout" (originally written by Phil Medley and Bert Berns) helped give the song a chart comeback in an unexpected decade. The re-release of the song reached #23 in the singles charts. While the Beatles weren't necessary fading into obscurity, Paul McCartney wasn't particularly grateful for the bump or keen on the use of his recording in the film, saying, "I liked (the) film but they overdubbed some lousy brass on the stuff! If it had needed brass, we'd had stuck it on ourselves!" Hughes, for his part, grew up loving the Beatles while he himself was about Ferris's age. He said in an interview, "I ended up in a really big high school, and I didn't know anybody. But then The Beatles came along (and) changed my whole life." Hughes would go on to express his affinity for the Beatles, and particularly John Lennon, in Pretty in Pink, in the scene where Ducky (perhaps a stand-in for a younger Hughes in front of his bedroom mirror before school every day) lip synchs to John Lennon's "Love." Hughes has said, "My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on." That sort of forward-thinking certainly explains his own progressiveness as a screenwriter and soundtrack curator.