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Easybeats Didn't Copy The Beatles

Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 3 December 1966

THE EASYBEATS are new and young — all teenagers — and so are vital in a slightly sagging pop scene that was given a shot in the arm by the Beatles some four years ago which is now wearing off. It is leaving behind a sad little pool of apathy, in which groups who have "seen and done it all" have little enthusiasm for their work.

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