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The Beatles: Liverpool Group Takes Britain by Storm

June Harris, Disc, 9 February 1963

LAST WEEK Brian Matthew described The Beatles as "the most original musical and visual sensation since The Shadows." And the off-beat writings of leader John Lennon credits them as being "four creepy, crawly things who took a beat and created a name."

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