From the archive: What is a Beatle?

Originally published on 10 December 1963The way in which Mr W. Raeburn, QC, turned down a free ticket to see the Beatles when he presided over the Performing Right Tribunal in London yesterday would have roused bitter envy in the soul of a teenager, if any had happened to be present. Perhaps fortunately, none was. If any had been, they would have had to endure the counsel for the Cinematograph Exhibitors Association and other interested parties, Mr Duncan Ranking, describing their idols in terms...

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