I am a Beatles obsessive. But let's cut the Fabs-worship | John Harris

As John Lennon said, it's just a rock group that split up. But 40 years on the Beatles use so much cultural air no one else can breatheFirst it was the Abbey Road zebra crossing: not the exact patch of London street that the Beatles traversed in the summer of '69, but still considered iconic enough to be given Grade II listed status, thanks to a Tory heritage minister named John Penrose. Now the housing department is trying to intervene in the case of Ringo Starr's Liverpool birthplace, requesti...

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