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Paul McCartney: "It was my role to be a bit more the cheerful chap than the others"

Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 15 October 1992

PAUL McCARTNEY changed my life when I heard 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' for the first time, on WINS in New York in late 1963. Rolling Stone changed my life in 1970 by publishing my first record reviews. They changed it again, together, four years later.

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