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For one whose place in history is not so much secure as gloriously, unquestionably assured, Paul McCartney behaves as though there is some doubt. He is, lest we forget, not just any old ex-Beatle, but the Beatle. At least since John departed.
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A poem handwritten by Sir Paul McCartney for his friend Spike Milligan is to be sold at auction next week.
On one side of the paper the former Beatle wrote a ditty called ‘The Poet of Dumbswoman Lane’ while on the reverse he drew a rough cartoon titled ‘The Nutters of Starvecrow Lane’.
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Sir Paul McCartney has spoken about his desire to take the Beatles music to China.
The singer, who three years ago said he would boycott the country because of its human rights record, said he was intrigued by the nation.
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The Beatles in Dublin, in the momentous month of November 1963, photographed by Dermot O’Shea of The Irish Times
KARL WHITNEY
FOR Philip Larkin, 1963 was the year when sexual intercourse began, “‘Between the end of the Chatterley ban / And the Beatles’ first LP”. In Ireland, November of that year seemed like the point at which the Sixties began, between the arrival of the Beatles in Dublin and the release of the band’s second LP. But, in a way, November was also the month when the Sixties ended.
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