The Beatles: Four Smiling, Tired Guys Talk About Their Music
Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 19 August 1966
THEY'RE REAL. The Beatles, that is. I had never seen them in the flesh before, so I expected some kind of supermen to step out of the plane at Metropolitan Airport last Saturday morning.
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