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...institution but a business-and their profits are strictly fabmost. This week they joined the rank of the financial mighty when one of their firms was listed on the London Stock Exchange. The corporation: Northern Songs Ltd., sole publisher of the songs of Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Northern Songs offered 1,250,000 shares at an initial price of $1.08 each, and the scramble to pick them up was likely to reach Comsat proportions...
...There are bound to be thick-heads," writes Paul McCartney in the introduction to In His Own Write, "Who will wonder why some of it doesn't make sense, and others who will search for hidden meanings... None of it has to make sense and if it seems funny then that's enough...
...Hard Day's Night will move one young segment of its audience to tears, hysteria and even outright unconsciousness. More than a movie, it is the answer to a maiden's prayer. Surprisingly, though, this hairy musical romp starring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr-yclept the Beatles-is one of the smoothest, freshest, funniest films ever made solely for purposes of exploitation. It seems better than it ought to be simply because the Beatles prove themselves disarming personalities...
...Married. All from Liverpool, all in their early 20s, they come from similar working-class backgrounds. George Harrison's father is a bus driver. Paul McCartney's sells cotton. Ringo Starr, the somewhat corvine drummer, is the son of a house painter. He is called Ringo because he wears as many as six rings on his fingers. His real name is Richard Starkey...
John Lennon, organizer of the group, never knew his father, who left home when John was three. John went through grammar school and into art college, where he married a classmate. They have a baby son. With Paul McCartney, Lennon has written most of the songs the Beatles sing-and he coined the name Beatle to suggest the steady pounding beat of the rhythms of rock...