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Paul first met John in 1957 at the annual Woolton garden   statue of the Fab Four installed in 2015 on Pier Head, where
            party, is the churchyard cemetery, where one gravestone   tourists love to pose for photos.
            reads: “In loving memory of. . .Eleanor Rigby. . .died 10th Oct.
            1939, aged 44 years. . . .”                         As one elderly taxi driver told me, “I’ve lived here all my life
                                                               and saw the Beatles at the Cavern in 1961.  It was crowded,
            Today in central Liverpool there’s a statue of Eleanor Rigby   hot, and smoky.  I knew there was something special about
            sitting on a park bench, a gift from Britain’s 1950s rock ‘n’ roll   them, their music was different from other sounds.”
            idol Tommy Steele, “for all the lonely people.”  And there’s a










































































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