Years after the event: Forty years ago today it was announced that Paul was quitting The Beatles.
How did the other three react?
Lennon to reporter: “You can say I said jokingly, he didn’t quit, he was fired.”
Harrison via friend: “George doesn’t want to talk about it. He wants to be left alone.”
Ringo: “This is all news to me.”
Fans and Apple Scruffs outside 3 Savile Row, London on April 10, 1969.
Malcolm McLaren (pictured below in December 1971 with Vivienne Westwood), punk impresario, dead yesterday at age 64.
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Chaplin (circled, obviously) at the Central London Poor Law School at Hanwell. 1897.
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Nicholas Ray directs Jeffrey Hunter in King of Kings. 1961.
“Echo of ‘Intolerance’: A Spanish stunt man takes a fall during the shooting Nicholas Ray’s ‘King of Kings‘.”
chained and perfumed 