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Sitting in his English garden, Ringo Starr is dreaming. It’s September 1966, the last waning days of a glorious summer, and it feels like the first time he’s put his feet up in years. It’s been just four years since he skipped out on Rory Storm and
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Brian Epstein is weeping. No one can see because of the Raybans he’s kept firmly in place all day, but gazing down at the crowds from the balcony of Liverpool Town Hall this sunny Friday afternoon, 10 July 1964, he just can’t keep it together. In truth he’
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1962 has been quite a year for George Henry Martin. As head of Parlophone, he’s had top ten hits with both Matt Monro and Bernard Cribbins. Under the name Ray Cathode, recording with Maddalena Fagandini from the Radiophonic Workshop, he’s launched “Time Beat”, an early probe into the
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“Where we going Johnny?” It’s been their catchphrase for a couple of years now, ever since the three of them came together, top deck of an 86 bus one night back in the spring of 1958 - John and Paul joined by George, Paul’s cocky little mate with the
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Joni Mitchell's star-sailing, time-scrambling 1976 solo odyssey across America
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Brian Wilson, 1942–2025
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