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Earl Slick

THE BEATLES

MEET THE BEATLES! CAPITOL, 1964

The music that first inspired me to play was all coming from England. They were taking the music that Americans paid no attention to and feeding it back to my generation – and this album was the one that got the ball rolling for me. I remember seeing The Beatles on on February 9, 1964, when the shit hit the fan for every kid everywhere. I mean, we all had short hair, but whatever little bit we had we all tried to brush it down and have a Beatle

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