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Ringo pub for sale – The Daily Beatle
However, the plan was not to reopen the pub, but to turn it into a Beatles souvenir shop, making the whole building Beatles themed.
20240531
Consumos web. 05/31/2024
20240529
Consumos web. 05/29/2024
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The passing of Dennis Littler – The Daily Beatle
When Paul, John and George started rehearsing their own group at Aunty Ginny’s they actually looked up to us…They even pleaded to join us. We turned them down flat-too young and too inexperienced. They were all still at school.
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20240526
Consumos web. 05/26/2024
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Ted “Kingsize” Taylor – The Daily Beatle
Nicknamed because of his size, the 6.5 ft (2.0 m) Kingsize was born Edward William Taylor, on the 12th of November 1939, in Crosby, Liverpool. The Dominoes were originally formed in North Liverpool, in 1957, from a skiffle group called the Sinners.
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20240525
Consumos web. 05/25/2024
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Ken Mansfield – The Daily Beatle
In 1967 when the Beatles decided to form their own corporation, they turned to Mansfield to run their record division and named him the U.S. Manager of Apple Records, beginning in 1968.
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20240523
Consumos web. 05/23/2024
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Geoff Wonfor – The Daily Beatle
Geoff Wonfor spent five years working on the eight part documentary series, first televised in 1995, and containing the new Beatles tunes, John Lennon’s “Free As a Bird” and “Real Love”. Wonfor also directed the music video for the latter song, together with Kevin Godley.
20240326
Consumos web. 03/26/2024
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Pattie Boyd Sells 'Layla' Album Cover Painting for $2.5 Million
The painting, titled La Jeune Fille au Bouquet and created by Emile Theeodore Frandsen in the mid '50s, was acquired by Clapton directly via the artist's son in 1970. Clapton later gifted it to Harrison in the late '70s, who in turn gifted to Boyd in the late '80s. Boyd has now sold the painting for $2.5 million.
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20240323
Consumos web. 03/23/2024
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The 111 lots up for sale included affectionate letters from both her iconic rock icon husbands George Harrison and Eric Clapton, alongside clothing, jewelry, drawings and photographs — some of Boyd, and some by her.
20240318
Consumos web. 03/18/2024
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The Beatles: Sir Sam Mendes to direct four films - one about each band member
Coincidentally, Backbeat was turned into a novel by music journalist Alan Clayson - who later published a four-volume box set, telling the Beatles' story from the perspective of each individual band member. Sound familiar?
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20240316
Consumos web. 03/16/2024
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A trove from Pattie Boyd's life with George Harrison and Eric Clapton is up for sale - ABC News
Boyd is an accomplished photographer, and the sale includes both large-scale portraits and informal Polaroids of Harrison, Clapton and other musicians, including Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend and Ronnie Wood.
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Paul McCartney reunited with guitar stolen 51 years ago
The guitar, originally purchased for £30 in Germany in 1961, has not been valued, but the Lost Bass team think it would be worth more than the most expensive guitar ever sold - a Kurt Cobain guitar which sold for a record $6m (£4.9m) at auction in 2020. John Lennon's stolen guitar sold for $2.4m (£1.9m) when it resurfaced half a century later.
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20240217
Consumos web. 02/17/2024
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John Lennon's 'long lost' Gibson guitar up for sale - BBC News - YouTube
A guitar owned and used by John Lennon, which was lost after a gig, is going to be auctioned in the United States. The Gibson J-160-E acoustic guitar has been declared genuine by Beatles' instruments expert Andy Babiuk, who compared it to photographs and film footage of Lennon playing it. It will be auctioned in Beverley Hills in November. Mike Embley reports.
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Paul McCartney reunited with long-lost bass guitar, stolen in 1972 - The Washington Post
contacted Nick Wass, a McCartney collaborator who has worked at Höfner and had launched the project, to see if they could help. Wass is “absolutely the world’s expert on violin Höfner basses, and he’s the expert on Paul’s bass,” according to Jones. Wass co-wrote the definitive book about the Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass and has worked closely with McCartney’s team to supply parts and basses, according to a Beatles museum in Liverpool.
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