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Oct 20, 2020
3 minutes
THE BEATLES’ LAST Show
1969
The Beatles wrote the soundtrack to the decade from their first single, Love Me Do, in 1962. Their final bow was a concert on the roof of their Apple Corps HQ at 3 Savile Row, Mayfair, on 30 January 1969.
Formed in Liverpool in 1960, the Beatles were initially a five-piece band. They went through a rigorous apprenticeship in all-night clubs in Hamburg, and emerged with a distinctive mix of guitar and vocal harmonies with three core members: George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. They gained a skilled manger in Brian Epstein, who
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