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    BEEP BEEP YEAH

    Feb 13, 2022 6 minutes
    by IAN SINCLAIR

    This is a story that begins with the Beatles and finishes with a curious encounter between George Harrison and my Auntie Jean’s vintage Morris Minor.

    When I heard Sir Peter Jackson had finished Get Back, his magical history tour of the making of the band’s 1970 album Let It Be, it brought back memories of a highly unusual family story.

    At the centre of it all is my cousin, Sally Reid. At the age of 21, Sally found herself an eyewitness to one of the Swinging Sixties’ biggest rock moments: the 42-minute rooftop concert the Beatles performed unannounced in London in January 1969. As a gawky teenager back in the 60s, I would sit agape while Auntie Jean read out Sally’s letters from London. My cousin appeared to be having the ultimate OE – working for the Beatles as part of what could best be described as the Fab Four’s

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