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He was always known as the shy one. But as this landmark biography reveals, George Harrison lost his virginity in a room at the back of a blue movie cinema… as the other Beatles cheered him on | Daily Mail Online

    He was always known as the shy one. But as this landmark biography reveals, George Harrison lost his virginity in a room at the back of a blue movie cinema… as the other Beatles cheered him on | Daily Mail Online

On a transatlantic flight in the late 1960s, George Harrison – the ‘Quiet Beatle’ – was sitting in first class with his eyes closed, chanting in an undertone. A cabin

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Watch John Lennon listen to ‘Imagine’ for the first time

    Watch John Lennon listen to ‘Imagine’ for the first time

Throughout his tenure co-writing with Paul McCartney for The Beatles, John Lennon developed an innovative and multi-faceted approach to songwriting. In complex, Beat Generation-inspired compositions like ‘Happiness Is a Warm

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The Beatles Make a Chaotic Arrival In the United States

    The Beatles Make a Chaotic Arrival In the United States

On February 7, 1964, the English rock and roll band The Beatles stepped onto U.S. soil for the first time. As they stepped off their flight from Heathrow Airport in

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The song that earned The Beatles $30 million

    The song that earned The Beatles $30 million

The Beatles may have been no different to anyone in their personal lives, but the different creative avenues they went down throughout their career led to them becoming one of

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Want to own a Clapton guitar? John Lennon’s juke box? McCartney’s tour bus? Here’s how – al.com

  Want to own a Clapton guitar? John Lennon’s juke box? McCartney’s tour bus? Here’s how – al.com

Notable pieces of rock-n-roll history will go on sale next month, including a guitar given to Eric Clapton by George

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The Truth Behind John Lennon’s ‘Lost Weekend’

  The Truth Behind John Lennon’s ‘Lost Weekend’

May Pang, now 72, was a teenage college dropout when she bluffed her way into a job at the Beatles’

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‘Isn’t It a Pity’: The best song The Beatles ever rejected

  ‘Isn’t It a Pity’: The best song The Beatles ever rejected

George Harrison’s emergence as a songwriting equal in The Beatles largely came at the end of the 1960s. After playing

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The Beatles song John Lennon told Alice Cooper was nonsense

  The Beatles song John Lennon told Alice Cooper was nonsense

It might seem a bit far-fetched, but Alice Cooper took most of his musical knowledge from The Beatles. While the

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The Beatles gift George Harrison called “biggest disaster”

  The Beatles gift George Harrison called “biggest disaster”

As they were the biggest band on the planet, it was only natural that The Beatles should have an array

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The lost Beatles song cut from ‘Magical Mystery Tour’

  The lost Beatles song cut from ‘Magical Mystery Tour’

The creation of Magical Mystery Tour found The Beatles in a place of chaos. Just four days after the final

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