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1957-1962

“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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  • osodaniel

    osodaniel on 31st Aug 10:

    “THE BEST BAND OVER THE WORLD,DANIEL.GUSTAS.”

  • Elbe StarClub

    Elbe StarClub on 18th Aug 10:

    “TODAY, it was 50 years ago. The first Beatles concert in Hamburg-Germany. The stage was the club Indra! :o)”

  • IracheCorn

    IracheCorn on 17th Aug 10:

    “who could imagine in those times that those 4 simple guys that play music just for fun and for doing what they love... could be now a days the best band ever!! EVER, NO OTHER BAND CAN BE LIKE THE BEATLES!! and handsome indeed <3”

  • SavoyTruffle67

    SavoyTruffle67 on 15th Aug 10:

    “yeah look at my page!! i would say more but its between me!! but not being mean and plus a lot if us on here want him lol!”

  • Rachel84663

    Rachel84663 on 14th Aug 10:

    “PAUL IS MINE I CAN PROVE IT LOOK AT MY PAGE”

  • SavoyTruffle67

    SavoyTruffle67 on 7th Aug 10:

    “@IracheCorn i agree with u on that about paul!!! i love him!!!”

  • Peabear1369

    Peabear1369 on 30th Jul 10:

    “Love Paul”

  • iheartspaul(:

    iheartspaul(: on 29th Jul 10:

    “hott haircuts<3 love you paul/john/george/ringo<3”

  • LENNON LOVE

    LENNON LOVE on 24th Jul 10:

    “I'm missing from the picture...
    I told them to wait for me, I was still combing my hair but they went on without me.
    I suppose there couldn't be 2 John's in the band.”

  • IracheCorn

    IracheCorn on 23rd Jul 10:

    “-oh who's that lovely guy with that misterious face and super handsome?
    -who? the se**iest one? oh yeah that one is Paul McCartney”

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