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    Here is a ‘one off’ photo…. Harrison on bass, Macca on drums……Sutcliffe in vocals.

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    You'd like the book I'm reading just now...

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    Includes a bit about Pete Best, as well as Stuart Sutcliffe and many others who influenced them over the years
     
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    Up and down the City Road...

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    Did you get to the Britannia round the corner? Really good Guinness. Lots of good pubs round there.
     
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    I worked on City Road for a while. The Wenlock Arms was our favourite retreat, a real gem....

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wenlock_Arms
     
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    W O O D S T O C K 1969
    No facilities….
    No crowd control.
    Virtually no police.
    No medical personnel.
    Nothing really but …… they all survived.
    More people turned up than ever expected.

    Peace was the catchphrase.

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    Simpler times....

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    Never did anyone any harm and taught us right from wrong, straight away ........... nowadays, they're arrested, transported in a police car, parents are called so mum & dad, have to knock off work early ( losing pay ) drive to ther Police station, listen to a heap of 'waffle' from the a govt family body, telling them your a bad parents, who are told they're at fault of raising your kids the wrong way , that they might be taken away from you .............. meanwhile, the little **** hasn't had to say sorry, berates his parents for taken so long to pick him up & get him out of there, gets off scott free, ready to agravate someone, somewhere else ....... but its cost mum & dad, coin..... go figure.
     
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