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# Richard Starkey

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# magical history tour

Look! It's George Harrison as a child on O'Connell Street...

It’s 50 years tomorrow since the Beatles played Dublin, but at least one of the foursome was in the city years earlier — demonstrating a prototype ‘mop-top’ too, by the looks of it.

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Nov 6th 2013, 8:30 PM

# Let It Be

Ringo Starr's birthplace saved from demolition - for now

The house where former Beatles Ringo Starr was born has been saved from bulldozers after a British minister stepped in with a temporary legal block, but Liverpool City Council says the house has got to go.

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Apr 20th 2011, 4:10 PM