The same interview, with Yahoo Movies, confirms how challenging it can be to obtain Beatles music for use in one's movie. Yes, Tarquin Gotch confirms that they had to drop $100,000 just on the rights to use Twist and Shout in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. But what I love is that he also had alternatives picked out for John Hughes just in case the Beatles deal fell through. For all we know, Ferris could have been dancing on a parade float to the beats of Herman's Hermits or The Searchers -- British bands who were relative unknowns at the time -- if EMI played hardball.