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“The story began in Harold Macmillan’s “never had it so good” ’50s Britain. It should be fiction: four teenagers with no more than eight O’Levels between them, running and biking and busing and busking all over Liverpool in search of new chords and old guitars and half-decent drum kit and any gig at all.

They were determined to amount to something – in George’s words “we just had this amazing inner feeling of: ‘We’re going to do it’. I don’t know why... we were just cocky” – and make a record (in Ringo’s words you’d kill for that bit of plastic and make some money and have a laugh and shout. That would do to be going on with.

Six years later, they were the four most famous and musical men on earth, the best dressed and on a good day the most captivating people anyone can remember. The narrative that began where Paul met John and clicked at a garden fete in leafy Liverpool, and ended in high dudgeon in high-end London, is so far fetched that it needs the power of a song punctuating every page to remind you with a joyous jolt that it was all true.

We didn’t dream it... though it came out of John’s dream of the “man on a flaming pie” who said “You are Beatles with an ‘A’”. It did all happen. The whole wonderful thing did happen, a long time ago, on the Mersey, on the Elbe, by the Thames and the Hudson River.

Amazing and marvellous and, nearly forty years on, forever young.

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  • chiang 888

    chiang 888 on 13th Mar 10:

    “but really,they rules”

  • chiang 888

    chiang 888 on 13th Mar 10:

    “BETLESSSSSSSSS THEYYYYYY RULESSSSSS ok that is stupid thing to do”

  • buggy1002

    buggy1002 on 11th Mar 10:

    “the beatles are asomee”

  • Lindt

    Lindt on 9th Mar 10:

    “No, my friend is just very funny, but sometimes her funniness goes out of control.”

  • beatlemania09

    beatlemania09 on 2nd Mar 10:

    “The Beatles never "tried" to look cool, you see, that's the problem these days, all these celebrities try to look cool, and muscicians take their music so seriously and never have fun with it, The Beatles always had fun with their music, you always saw a smile on their faces in the studio.”

  • beatlesfan28

    beatlesfan28 on 24th Feb 10:

    “wow your friend must be constipated then because shes not that smart the second reason it probably took her a loooooooooooong time to think of that on if you know what i mean! jk but seriously your friend im guessing is weird”

  • Lindt

    Lindt on 24th Feb 10:

    “Strangely enough, my friend thinks that Paul looks constipated. Seriously!”

  • beatlesfan28

    beatlesfan28 on 22nd Feb 10:

    “thats not it its please please me oh yea like i please you”

  • sean is the beatle

    sean is the beatle on 21st Feb 10:

    “please please me oh ya i need to please you”

  • 123JOHN

    123JOHN on 19th Feb 10:

    “LIVE 4 EVR JOHN LENNON”

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