Matthew Modine's teenage obsessions: ‘In Utah, the Beatles were devil music’

The Full Metal Jacket actor, who stars in new horror film Wrong Turn, on Ernest Hemingway, Sean Connery, and why he turned down Top Gun

I am the youngest of seven, so I got a steady diet of the Beatles from my brothers and sisters at a young age. The Beatles first came to the United States in 1964 when I was four. It’s remarkable how much these boys with the skinny ties changed the world by the time they released Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967.