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Paul McCartney's schoolboy essay found 56 years on

Prize-winning work by 10-year-old future Beatle contained hint of band's trademark logoThe developing imagination of Sir Paul McCartney has been revealed by the chance find of a schoolboy essay which won him a regional prize at the age of 10.The young writer beat entrants from all over Liverpool in 1953 with an original take on the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, one which prefigured lyrics on the Beatles' last recorded album.Tucked inside a scrapbook in Speke library, where the McCartney fami...

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15:29 on September 27 2009

Paul McCartney's schoolboy essay found 56 years on

Guardian Music — Prize-winning work by 10-year-old future Beatle contained hint of band's trademark logoThe developing imagination of Sir Paul McCartney has been revealed by the chance fi... more info
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12:00 on September 28 2009

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Rolling Stone — An essay written by a 10-year-old Paul McCartney has been discovered in a Liverpool library, the AP reports. The handwritten piece about Queen Elizabeth II won a prize an... more info
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12:17 on September 27 2009

Beatles' Paul McCartney school essay on The Queen re-discovered

NME — McCartney won a book token for his effort aged 10 more info
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14:51 on September 27 2009

Early Paul McCartney Musings Discovered In Liverpool

Starpulse — LONDON (AP) — A discovery in a Liverpool library has revealed that Paul McCartney's talent for writing was winning him prizes when he was just 10 — though f... more info
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