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The Damp, Sweaty Cellar That Made The Beatles — And Then Lost A Sleeve Off John Lennon's Jacket
How a fruit warehouse basement on Mathew Street, Liverpool, changed the course of popular music — and lost money doing it.
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"The Rest Are Basically Mine": How John Lennon Spent A Decade Quietly Nicking Credit For Eleanor Rigby
In 1980, John told Playboy he'd written most of a song that his own best friend said he barely touched. The numbers kept changing. The nerve never did.
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THE BEATLE WHO HAD THE SENSE TO QUIT
Stuart Sutcliffe invented The Beatles — their name, their look, their entire intellectual scaffolding — then had the audacity to choose a life instead…
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LMW 281F: THE MOST SCRUTINISED NUMBER PLATE IN HISTORY — AND EVERYONE GOT IT WRONG
For 56 years, a parked Volkswagen has borne the weight of the most elaborate conspiracy in rock mythology. The world read its number plate, announced…
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Peace, Love and Broccoli — and the Night John and Paul Nearly Reunited on a Dare
Ringo turns 85 in remarkable form and shares his first-ever duet with Paul — all while the world marks fifty years since the bittersweet last chapter of…
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The Band With No Name, No Drummer, No Bass Player, And Absolutely No Plan: How The Beatles Accidentally Became The Beatles
In 1960, a group of Liverpool lads couldn't agree on what to call themselves, recruited an art student who couldn't play bass, then turned up to the…
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Cilla Black Had To Rescue John's Harmonica From A Barcelona Hotel, Ringo Got A Medieval Pikestaff For His Birthday, And Nobody Thought Any…
Bullfight arenas, medieval swords, a Rolls-Royce with blacked-out windows, and the song that only had one Beatle on it — June and July 1965 were…
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