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'Exceptionally rare' copy of Beatles' first single Love Me Do signed by the Fab Four a day after its release is set to sell for £20,000

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 8, 2024
An 'exceptionally rare' copy of the Beatles ' first single Love Me Do signed by the Fab Four just a day after its release is set to sell for a staggering £20,000. The Parlophone UK record for Love Me Do/PS I Love You was autographed by each member of the iconic band in ballpoint pen when they met fans inside Dawson's Music Shop in Widnes, Cheshire, on October 6, 1962. The band were still relatively unknown at the time and had added Ringo Starr to the line-up two months earlier, who replaced drummer Pete Best. Six decades on, the pressing, in its original multicoloured 'Type 1' Parlophone record sleeve, is set to spark a bidding war at RR Auction, of Boston, US. It has been consigned by a private collector. An RR Auction spokesperson said: 'This is an exceptionally rare and desirable Parlophone UK first pressing of the band's debut single, Love Me Do/ P.S.. I Love You, signed on the label in black ballpoint by John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison , and Ringo Starr.

After reuniting with fellow Beatle Ringo Starr, 83, to advertise daughter Mary's cookbook, Sir Paul McCartney, 81, wears a Liverpool T-shirt for a strange Brazil gig

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 29, 2023
When in Brazil to perform a mystery club gig in Brazil, Sir Paul McCartney shared a Beatles reunion snap with Sir Ringo Starr. For his daughter Mary's latest cookbook Feeding Creativity, the Beatles sensation, 81, posed with his late bandmate Sir Ringo, 83. The pair is seen beaming as they share a delectable vegetarian pasta in the film "Reunion".

As music enthusiasts waited overnight to get the band's 'last' song,'s Beatles fans await the unveiling of Now And Then's music video starring an unseen video of leather-suited Fab Four at the start of their careers

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 3, 2023
The Fab Four's last song and features music from John, Paul, Ringo, and George, with already listening to by 5 million on YouTube and millions more on streaming platforms. The band's first video footage of the band performing in leather in a Merseyside church hall in 1962 before they became the world's most popular band, and producer Brian Epstein ordered them to all wear smart suits. Pete Best, the Beatles' drummer before Ringo, has given the cine camera video to his former band with the help of his brother Roag. Roag said he bought the silent video from a man who filmed the performance at St Paul's Presbyterian Church Hall in Birkenhead in February 1962, eight months before they released their first single.