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From Me To You: The Story of the Beatles

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It was fifty years ago this May when four working class lads from Liverpool were signed to a recording contract that would generate one billion record sales over five decades of ever changing popular music trends. Glam rock, punk rock, disco fever, new wave, Brit pop and more have all come and gone as youth culture moved on, but the one constant has been The Beatles and their music.

After their first UK number one single From Me To You in 1963, John Lennon (9/10/40 – 8/12/80); Paul McCartney (b. 18/06/42); George Harrison (25/02/43 – 29/11/01) and Richard Starkey (alias Ringo Starr, b. 7/07/40), were a band on the run...

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