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Timeless Illustrious Past: Why The Beatles Are Still Big Business

Steve Turner, Wiener Zeitung, June 1999

ALTHOUGH THE Beatles disbanded almost thirty years ago, public interest in the group has never waned. Beatles records still sell in their millions worldwide (six million back-catalogue albums in 1996 alone), Beatles books pour from publishing houses and stories about John, Paul, George and Ringo continue to make headlines.

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