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A new book highlights this little-known aspect of The Beatles' career

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A pilfered relic from the night of the last concert the Beatles played together has been recovered and is going on the auction block.

‘Sid’s reading Mad magazine beside his cowboy hippy bodyguard. He was drinking so much he didn’t even think about the three-inch cut in his arm’

On October 5, 1962, the music world was changed forever when The Beatles released their debut single Love Me Do. In just eight short years, the band would acrimoniously split

These facts about the song that introduced the Fab Four to the world will surprise all but the most ardent Beatles fan

The Beatles had a major problem and it wasn't going to be easily resolved. They didn't like the song they'd been asked to record by their producer George Martin.

They were captured in July 1961, over a year before the band released their debut single

Photographs show band performing at Liverpool venue more than a year before release of first official single

It confused Gene Simmons, inspired Judy Collins and changed one pop star’s mum’s haircut. Here, musicians recall the impact of the Beatles’ debut single

Images date from 1961