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Throughout the Beatles' tour of the UK, reporters struggled to describe the sound of thousands of adolescents screaming at the top of their voices. 'I have not attended the mass torture or execution of 5000 assorted farmyard animals', wrote the Newcastle Journals reporter Rodney Pybus. 'But I imagine the noise they would make would be very similar to that which forced my fingertips deep into my ears'.

The students of Leeds University elected Ringo Starr their vice-president.
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In Hollywood, top movie stars Edward G. Robinson, Dean Martin, Lloyd Bridges, Kirk Douglas, Shelley Winters, Jack Palance, Jack Lemmon — donated money to charity in order to queue for their autographs. In exile in France, the Duchess of Windsor sang their songs to herself. 'Oh, the Beatles. Don't you just love 'em?' she said.

Unsurprisingly, it is John who pops the poppermost, and to the greatest effect, yelling obscenities, rolling around on the stage, throwing food at other band members, pretending to be a hunchback, jumping on Paul's back, hurling himself into the audience, delighting in calling them 'fucking Krauts' or 'Nazis' or 'German spassies.
Diplomacy has never come naturally to him.

turns out that Bob Dylan is an enthusiast for visiting sites associated with rock stars.(.)he visited Mendips [casa de John Lennon],as well as Sun Studios in Memphis, where he took the trouble to kneel down and kiss the spot where Elvis Presley first sang "That's All Right. Apparently, as Dylan left the studios, a man chased after him and told him how much he loved him. 'Well, son, we all have our heroes, he replied.

Ringo was the Beatle for girls who lacked ambition. Picking him as your favourite suggested a touch of realism. It went without saying that the others were already taken, but you might just stand an outside chance with the drummer.

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