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The Beatles’ accountant 50 years on: ‘They were scruffy boys who didn’t want to pay tax’

    The Beatles’ accountant 50 years on: ‘They were scruffy boys who didn’t want to pay tax’

In The Beatles’ 1966 song Taxman, George Harrison berates Harold Wilson’s proposed 95pc “supertax” on the UK’s highest earners. “If 5pc appears too small,” he sings bitterly, “be grateful I

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The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper merchandise collection with Selfridges | Brands | Music Week

    The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper merchandise collection with Selfridges | Brands | Music Week

Bravado, Universal Music Group’s leading merchandise and brand management company, has announced a 50 Years of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band capsule collection, to be launched in the UK

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Derelict Art Deco theatre where Beatles, Rolling Stones and many more played is saved by National Lottery – Liverpool Echo

    Derelict Art Deco theatre where Beatles, Rolling Stones and many more played is saved by National Lottery – Liverpool Echo

£4.5 million of National Lottery money is to be used to restore a derelict Art Deco theatre where the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Buddy Holly played.The funding will help

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Fab deal — Perthshire hotel used by The Beatles snapped up in £795,000 takeover deal – The Courier

    Fab deal — Perthshire hotel used by The Beatles snapped up in £795,000 takeover deal – The Courier

The Four Seasons at St Fillans in Highland Perthshire famously hosted The Beatles during an action-packed tour of Scotland in 1964. Guests can still stay in the chalet where John

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‘The Beatles: Yellow Submarine’ Coming to Comics in 2018 (Exclusive) | Hollywood Reporter

    ‘The Beatles: Yellow Submarine’ Coming to Comics in 2018 (Exclusive) | Hollywood Reporter

Incoming MAD Magazine editor Bill Morrison will write and illustrate Titan Comics’ adaptation in time for the movie’s 50th anniversary

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The Beatles Are On Top Of The Bestselling Vinyl List Of 2017 With A 50-Year-Old Album

    The Beatles Are On Top Of The Bestselling Vinyl List Of 2017 With A 50-Year-Old Album

In the first half of 2017, vinyl continued to be the only format of music where sales rose, though a

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Rarely Seen Photos Of John Lennon, George Harrison 1971 Post-Beatles Reunion Set For Auction

    Rarely Seen Photos Of John Lennon, George Harrison 1971 Post-Beatles Reunion Set For Auction

Candid photographs showing John Lennon and George Harrison reuniting a year after the Beatles split are set to be auctioned

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John Lennon often didn’t like what he heard on Beatles records – MarketWatch

    John Lennon often didn’t like what he heard on Beatles records – MarketWatch

Asked by “Fresh Air” host Terry Gross why it is that John Lennon has been said not to have cared

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Paul McCartney Regrets That The Beatles Split Up

    Paul McCartney Regrets That The Beatles Split Up

Paul McCartney has admitted he still harbors regrets about how The Beatles split up, confessing that the added complications of

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I love The Beatles. But they and their fans have a women problem | Varsity

    I love The Beatles. But they and their fans have a women problem | Varsity

Why did the Beatles break up at the tail-end of the 1960s? If you’re a proponent of the popular fan theory that just won’t die, it was Yoko Ono, John

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