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Paul, tall Ivan Vaughan and George. The picture was taken in 1959, according to the Flaming Pie book.
As you may or may not know, George Harrison and Paul McCartney were mates before they met John Lennon. In the recently released archive version of Paul’s 1997 album, “Flaming Pie”, there are a couple of interesting artefacts from way back when. The first...

The Beatles showing off their panda at the press photo call before the Manchester concert.
November 20th 1963. The Beatles performed two shows at Manchester’s ABC Cinema on the 16th date of their 1963 Autumn Tour.
During the first show, Pathé News filmed the group performing “She Loves You” and “Twist And Shout”. Accompanied with backstage footage and crowd scenes, this became an eight-minute cinema feature entitled The Beatles Come To Town, shown for a week from...

Our favourite Q cover
British music magazine Q folds, their last issue was the August issue, which hit the streets July 28th, 2020. The magazine folds due to the decline in the paper magazine business, and the process was speeded up due to the current pandemic....

On stage at Madison Square for Thanksgiving 1974, guest starring with Elton John.
Roadie Henry Smith was preparing for the May 1981 John Lennon tour when he got a call from Roberta Flack, informing him that Lennon had just been shot and killed. Flack had been a former resident of the Dakota building in New York City, and had been...