Consumos web. 06/04/2024

• Drive My Car: The Beatles’ Road Incidents – The Daily Beatle

  Apart from their obvious love of music, each of The Beatles had an eye for nice cars. While they were together, the Fab Four owned more than forty different automobiles.

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  • Apart from their obvious love of music, each of The Beatles had an eye for nice cars. While they were together, the Fab Four owned more than forty different automobiles.

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Consumos web. 05/31/2024

• 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.

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Consumos web. 05/29/2024

• 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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Consumos web. 05/26/2024

• 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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Consumos web. 05/25/2024

• 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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Consumos web. 05/23/2024

• 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.

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Consumos web. 03/26/2024

• 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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Consumos web. 03/23/2024

• Auction of Pattie Boyd's trove of treasures surpasses expectations as it nets $3.6 million - ABC News

  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.

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Consumos web. 03/18/2024

• 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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Consumos web. 03/16/2024

• 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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