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We Had a Neil Aspinall

Neil Aspinall, a road manager and later head of The Beatles’ Apple Corp., died a couple of days ago at 66. he was around when the Pete Best Beatles were taking the bus to gigs and he was the one who bought a van to take them around. A childhood friend of McCartney and Harrison [...]

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Denny Doherty – A Guy From Halifax

“One day a gypsy woman read my mother’s tea leaves and said: ‘You’re going to have two sons. Tell your second son to build his house on wheels,’ and that was me. The only one that ever left home.” – Denny Doherty, from Dream a Little Dream: The Almost True Story of the Mamas and [...]

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