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What happened to Jimmie Nicol?

Jimmie Nicol was given the regulation moptop haircut and the thin-lapel suit required to be in the world’s greatest pop group.For 13 days in 1964 he lived the dream as

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When the Beatles Brought Psychedelia to Prime Time | The Huffington Post

On February 25, 1967, promotional films for the Beatles’ “Penny Lane” and “Strawberry Fields Forever” debuted on ABC’s Hollywood Palace. Fans had never seen films like these before, and they

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FACT! The Beatles’ Penny Lane Video NOT Shot In Penny Lane | News – Radio X

Can it really be half a century since The Beatles put away their moptops and went WEIRD? It sure is. On 17 February 1967, the band released a double A-sided

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Photographer David Magnus shares rare photos of The Beatles in 1967 – The Jewish Chronicle

David Magnus was once told that he’d never make a photographer. But, at the age of 19, in 1963 he was invited to photograph the Beatles at Stowe School —

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Beatles inspiration Strawberry Field to undergo revamp – ITV News

The former children’s home that inspired one of the Beatles’ greatest hits Strawberry Fields Forever, is to be redeveloped by

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Roy Orbison’s Son Acquires ‘The Beatle Who Vanished’ Film – Rolling Stone

Roy Orbison’s son Alex has acquired the movie rights to The Beatle Who Vanished, a book about Jimmie Nicol, the

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Laurence Juber Announces New Album, ‘LJ Can’t Stop Playing The Beatles!’ | Guitar World

The album, which will be issued via Hologram Recordings, is Juber’s third collection of solo acoustic arrangements of Beatles tunes.

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The Beatles’ secretary to appear at film screenings

For more than a decade she worked with The Beatles, their manager and their families. Now Freda Kelly is coming

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The Beatles’ secretary to appear at film screenings

For more than a decade she worked with The Beatles, their manager and their families. Now Freda Kelly is coming

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The Beatles remind us: there’s a place… | Progressive Culture | Scholars & Rogues

T he English composer and musicologist Wilfrid Mellers, in his now classic scholarly study of the Beatles, Twilight of the Gods, calls the early Beatles period, the period of screaming

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