The Death Of The Beatles
David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2000
JANUARY 2, 1969. They are probably the four most famous people in the world, but this morning at the raw beginning of the last year of the Sixties, they arrive long-faced and oddly disconsolate at Twickenham Film Studios in south-west London.
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