#the daily mail

[useless-englandfacts]

oh look the fascist rag (daily mail) has a view on this

[brian-in-finance]

Image: IMDb

Photo: Netflix

In this apocalyptic thriller from award-winning writer and director Esmail (Mr. Robot), Amanda (Academy Award winner Roberts) and her husband Clay (Academy Award nominee Hawke), rent a luxurious home for the weekend with their kids, Archie (Charlie Evans) and Rose (Farrah Mackenzie). Their vacation is soon upended when two strangers — G.H. (Academy Award winner Ali) and his daughter Ruth (Myha’la Herrold) — arrive in the night, bearing news of a mysterious cyberattack and seeking refuge in the house they claim is theirs. The two families reckon with a looming disaster that grows more terrifying by the minute, forcing everyone to come to terms with their places in a collapsing world. Based on the National Book Award-nominated novel by Alam, Leave the World Behind is produced by Esmail Corp, Red Om Films, and executive produced by Higher Ground Productions. — Netflix

Remember when Tait joined Caitríona’s Amateur co-star at the UK Special Screening of her Money Monster co-star’s new film?

Even the Daily Mail was happy to see Tait. 😂

[odinsblog]

I hate sellouts with a passion, but I try to remember something I once read:

“Every minority and every people has its share of opportunists, profiteers, freeloaders and escapists. The hammer blows of discrimination, poverty and segregation must warp and corrupt some. No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy. The real issue is whether in the great mass the dominant characteristics are decency, honor and courage.”

—Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1968

Anyway, this may be old news for some of us, but definitely not for all of us. Salute to all of the Black and Brown people with morals and heart, who don’t sellout, even though the overwhelming majority of us could easily get rich quick (if we were sellouts). 🫡

[ineffablehubbys]

That caption?!?!? The daily mail really chose violence that day ahah

[sounwise]

“Paul McCartney’s secret love affair” (interview with Maggie McGivern in the Daily Mail, April 12, 1997)

[Full transcript beneath the cut:]

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Millions of words have been written about The Beatles — but little, if anything, is known of a girl called Maggie McGivern.

Yet now it can be revealed for the first time that she is the woman who had a secret affair with Paul McCartney for more than three years.

They were the years songs such as Paperback Writer, Strawberry Fields Forever and All You Need Is Love were enchanting the world.

More pertinently they included the years in which he had his relationship with actress Jane Asher, and when he met the woman who would become Linda McCartney.

The saga begins early in 1966 when Maggie was working as a nanny for Marianne Faithfull and her husband, John Dunbar, a Cambridge graduate and artist.

Their son, Nicholas, had been born the previous November. Marianne had a third-floor flat in Chelsea, in the heart of what was then Swinging London, the capital city of the Sixties. For more than three years The Beatles had been storming the pop charts — and society.

Help! was the sensation of the previous summer and the double-sided Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out was in the charts. Beatlemania was everywhere and Maggie, through her new job, would quickly get used to rubbing shoulders with the famous.

One day when the buzzer rang on the intercom for the flat, she didn’t recognise the voice from the ground floor. The young man asked if John was around. ‘Who is it?’ said Maggie. ‘Paul McCartney,’ said the voice. ‘Oh — come up . . .’

‘Paul ran up the stairs and came in,’ she recalls. ‘Very casually I told him John wasn’t really in — and that sent us both into hysterics. We were laughing and chatting.

‘I had made a nice lunch for Marianne and a bunch of her friends but they never showed up. Paul and I sat together and ate it instead. I’ll never forget the meal — it was chicken casserole. It was such a funny introduction that it threw us both off guard. It could have been very embarrassing, but there was an immediate rapport and we just couldn’t stop talking.’

Maggie, whose once-dark hair is now dyed honey-blonde, told how she and Paul became closer in the months that followed, even though they each had a separate relationship.

Maggie had a photographer boyfriend and McCartney was seeing a pretty young actress called Jane Asher, living for a time in her parents’ house before she moved in with him.

‘It was a gradual thing,’ says Maggie. ‘From that point on Paul kept coming up to the flat. He was very good friends with John but I knew he was coming to see me.

‘He would ring and ask if anyone was there and if there wasn’t, he would come up. We used to talk about lots of things but it was obvious to both of us that our other relationships were not going well.’

It took six months before their association, as Maggie puts it, turned from friendship to love. The Beatles had been recording their Revolver album, released at the end of summer 1966.

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One evening McCartney, John Dunbar and some friends returned from Paris with some demo tapes of the album and played them for Maggie. ‘There was something in the air that night and that’s how it all started,’ she says. ‘He ended up staying the night and we went to bed. It was wonderful.

‘The next morning was one of the most previous moments of my life. We didn’t say much but it was such a tranquil, pleasant feeling — made all the more so because we left things unsaid. He stayed with me until lunchtime and we chatted and larked about. Everything with Paul was so natural. From that moment on he used to come around regularly.’

By this stage The Beatles had stopped doing live performances and tours but McCartney was putting just as much effort into recording. Maggie was frequently abroad on modelling assignments.

‘When we were having our love affair, I hardly phoned him,’ she says. ‘He used to find me wherever I was, and that was fine as far as I was concerned. He did tell me that Jane Asher had moved in with him at his house in St John’s Wood and I remember saying that it meant nothing to me.

‘Throughout the relationship I never pursued him — I just didn’t think about him having other women. My view on relationships has always been that if something works, it works. If it’s meant to be, let it be. Besides which, I had a busy life, and I was very busy living it.

‘Our relationship was a secret from day one, at first because we didn’t want Jane to find out, and later because we preferred it like that. We hardly ever went to parties. We would occasionally go to restaurants but normally we’d walk his dogs in Regent’s Park or go for drives in the country.

‘We craved isolation and I for one did not want to become an overnight superstar — I certainly wasn’t ready for that emotionally.’

Secrecy, of course, was vital for the continued success of their relationship. Maggie, who now lives in Brighton and works as a rollerblade instructor, says: ‘I don’t believe celebrities when they say they can’t keep affairs secret. We managed it quite well for more than three years.’

She described a trip to Paris in 1966 with John Lennon and The Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein. All of them flew into France separately — Lennon had been filming abroad and Epstein had been away on business. Maggie and Paul, she says, traveled apart ‘as part of keeping the relationship secret’. During the five-day trip the foursome stayed at the same Paris hotel where she and Paul shared a luxury suite. ‘It was a marvelous holiday,’ she says. ‘. . . just walking around the streets of Paris.

‘My abiding memory is of me, John and Paul lying under the Eiffel Tower, gazing up at it. We couldn’t go up because we would have been recognised, and we were masters at the art of avoiding people.

‘Throughout the relationship we never met in obvious places. We would go to places like auction rooms in South Kensington, and say “whoops — fancy meeting you here”.’

By this point, Maggie saw Paul as a permanent fixture in her life, but gave no serious thought to marriage or children.

Maggie was 20 and McCartney 23 when they met. At the time, she says, she had no conception of the enormity of the scene in which she was involved. ‘I know it really sounds strange but I didn’t really regard it as a big deal. They were mad times and the world was changing. People look back on it now as an era — but all we were doing was living in it.

‘I knew in my heart that Paul was a real family man — when I was working at Marianne’s we used to spend hours just looking at little Nicholas. It was obvious Paul wanted children but, at that stage, I was in no way ready for it. I was a free spirit.’

Maggie worked for Marianne and John for about 18 months before leaving to set up an antiques stall in Chelsea Market. Even without that direct line to the famous, however, she still saw a great deal of McCartney.

She had a shared flat in Chelsea, but she was still busy modelling, and had appeared as an extra in films, including Blow-Up, which was released in 1966.

At one stage, she says, Paul had wanted her to be a chorus girl in The Beatles’ production of Magical Mystery Tour, which was screened on TV over Christmas 1967, but he couldn’t locate her and chose another girl, also called Maggie.

By now their relationship was becoming serious, she says: ‘By this time he knew that I was in love with him, and I knew he loved me, too.

‘I never told any friends that we were seeing each other — that was an unspoken rule. My mum and dad knew, but not in any detail.

‘I used to spend many nights at his house in St John’s Wood. It was a beautiful Regency house, and his garden was full of Alice In Wonderland characters built in stone. We spent many romantic times there. At the end of the garden was a glass-topped, circular, domed building where we meditated. I’ll never forget the first time he showed me that place.

‘We went inside the dome and he told me to stand on the floor. Suddenly, the floor started rising and there I was, up in the air, looking at the stars. After that we used to spend a lot of time together on the raised platform looking at the stars.

‘That’s what it was like, you see. By the time he and The Beatles were into the Maharishi and that whole scene, so was I — there were amazing parallels in our personalities.’

One day the couple went to the Indica Gallery in London with a group of showbiz friends, where John Lennon met Yoko Ono.

‘We spent more time with John and than we did with George and Ringo — we hardly saw them at all.’

In the summer of 1968, McCartney’s engagement to Jane Asher ended. Later, it emerged that she had arrived back at their house to find him with another woman — not Maggie, but an American called Francie Schwartz.

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Maggie says: ‘By September 1968 I had rented a flat on my own in Fawcett Street, Chelsea. I really wanted to live alone. I hadn’t been there long when one day I got a telegram at my flat from Paul. It said: “Flying to the sun. Car picking you up at 8pm. Love Paul.”

‘I was so excited because I had no idea where we were going. A car drew up and we went to pick up Paul at St John’s Wood. As he came out he took an Instamatic camera from a fan, who was camped outside his house, and told us he was borrowing it to take on holiday.

‘Paul had hired a private jet so no one would spot us. There was a proper lounge, no rows of seats — we were drinking champagne and laughing and joking with a male cousin of Paul, and his American girlfriend. I kept asking him where we were going, but he refused to tell me.’

The plane landed in Sardinia but Maggie had no idea where she was until she spotted a sign. They had a hotel suite overlooking the ocean.

Much of their time was spent in restaurants where, she says, they were ‘treated like royalty’. At one banquet in their honour, they walked into a room full of women dressed in ballgowns. Maggie had a T-shirt dress. ‘Paul and I just collapsed in giggles,’ she says. ‘We thought it was hilarious.’

Most of their time, however, was spent on the golden sands. Indeed, while they were on the beach, two things happened which changed the course of their relationship.

First, they were spotted by a photographer — a picture of them together appeared in a Sunday newspaper back home. The report described her as his ‘new girlfriend’.

Maggie confirmed that they had been going out together — and suddenly the world knew of their secret liaison.

More significantly, perhaps, it may have changed the way they viewed themselves.

Maggie explains: ‘We were lying on the beach just being young and in love. Paul turned to me, smiling, and out of the blue he just said: “Have you ever thought about getting married?”

‘I said: “Yes, I suppose, one day . . .” and I thought nothing more of it. Looking back, it was obviously the wrong answer. When I said “one day” I meant in six months, maybe, but not never.

‘But Paul was always slightly insecure and probably saw me as such a free spirit that he thought I was never going to settle down.

‘On the journey home we were singing Those Were The Days and falling around laughing. I went back to Paul’s house with him — I distinctly remember waltzing around the room with him.’

Paul and Maggie continued to see each other in the following months but the subject of marriage was never mentioned again, she says.

‘I suppose I assumed we would end up together but at the time I was just enjoying it all. In the Sixties there was so much going on that I didn’t have time to sit and think about the future. I suppose that, with the pressures of fame, Paul was craving security.’

He would find it, it transpired, with an American blonde called Linda Eastman.

Maggie says: ‘One day, a little while after we returned from Sardinia, I rang Paul — and Linda answered the phone. I had seen a newspaper story about him having lunch with her before that, but I wasn’t the type to ask questions or get jealous.

‘I remember Paul telling Linda to get off the phone and I asked him who she was and what was happening. He said: “I don’t know the scene, man. I don’t know what’s going on.” ’

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By late 1968 and 1969, The Beatles had massively increased the following of the Flower Power and hippie movement in Britain. It was a time of freedom, free love, drugs and music.

But for McCartney it was also, it seems, a time of emotional confusion.

Maggie remembers McCartney arriving at her flat late one night. ‘He was really down and I couldn’t seem to get a word out of him,’ she says. ‘He was crying and I knew he had been stressed. I stood and held him and asked him to tell me what was wrong. Then suddenly he jumped up and he said he had to go. Somehow I knew when I closed the door that night I wouldn’t see him again.’

A couple of days later she was walking along the King’s Road when she noticed four words on a newspaper billboard: ‘Paul and Linda marry.’

‘My heart just thumped,’ she says. ‘I couldn’t believe it. He never told me he was getting married and he never told me our relationship was over. I didn’t contact him for ages. I had never pursued him and I wasn’t going to start then.

‘Not many people knew we were going out together in the first place so there was no point in telling them it was over. Obviously, I told my mum and dad but not even they knew the depths of my suffering and depression.

‘Looking back, I think I was in serious shock and it didn’t come out properly until years later.’

Until yesterday, Maggie has never felt able to discuss her true feelings about the relationship and the separation. The remarkable story emerged only after her mother, Evelyn, confirmed details to the Daily Mail.

Maggie agreed to speak only reluctantly — she said she would always care for Paul, and desperately wants to avoid upsetting him and his wife Linda, who is fighting cancer.

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Subsequently Maggie started a relationship with rock musician Denny Laine and it was through him, after he joined McCartney’s group Wings, that she saw Paul again, in 1971 or 1972.

‘It was a very emotional meeting and we had a great big hug. We were standing there gripping each other when there was a tap on his shoulder. We turned around and it was Linda. Paul told her who I was and she said she had heard about me. There was, of course, an unfriendly atmosphere and we didn’t get a chance to have a real conversation.’

The next time Maggie ran into Paul she was seeing her husband-to-be, Mel Collins, whom she married in 1974 after falling pregnant with their daughter, Naiama. This meeting was also difficult, she says. ‘There were a lot of sarcastic comments towards me.’

Six years passed before she saw him again. Maggie was shopping with her daughter at Harvey Nichols in London when she decided to try on a designer dress.

‘I was looking at myself in the mirror when a voice said: “That looks great.” It was Paul . . . he was buying Christmas presents for Linda. We got talking for a little while and then just said our goodbyes. We never discussed the relationship or anything like that.’

It was only at a later meeting, at a film studio in 1984, that she remembers rediscovering some of their earlier rapport. But it vanished when Linda appeared. Maggie says: ‘Paul’s whole demeanor changed — he’s a different person when he’s with her.

‘But, to give Linda credit, although we were still uneasy we chatted quite amiably about horses and things like that. I suppose after years of marriage and several children, there was no need for any nastiness.’

That was the last time Maggie saw McCartney, but she admits to thinking about him almost daily.

‘Marriage? I’m the type to move on and live my life and not regret anything,’ she says, ‘but obviously I still feel the pain. I kick myself for that day on the beach in Sardinia.’

[silvermoon424]

Lmao The Daily Mail and their readers are so fucking butthurt people are calling out the harmful legacy of the British monarchy/empire. Yeah, I wonder what these two black women could possibly have anything to complain about?? 

As cringe as Americans are at least I will never have to deal with the shame of being Bri’sh lol

[chronicallychronicles]

so like... fuck the daily mail.

who wants to tell them that teenagers and young adults sharing the reality of chronic illness isn't because they want the attention. it's to get it through people like emma james' thick skulls that chronic illness is so fucking hard in the world we live in? it's because we HAVE to show our hardships otherwise we would be completely eradicated by a massively ableist society. it's because in the darkest hours a support system of other people going through your struggles is sometimes the only motivator to keep going.

who's going to tell them that the disabled being disabled aren't a fucking advertisement to endorse people to act sick? who's telling them that you can't just fucking link all disabled people who share their stories cant be held personally responsible for someone else's fucking mental health problems? who's telling them that making us to hide away and pretend like we don't exist to society is only gonna bite them in the ass later in life?

yeah, me, i'm telling them. fuck you daily mail. signed, chronicallychronicles, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome of four years, and the entire chronically ill community.

[tweetingukpolitics]

[thepotentialof2007]

A Xitter thread from September 22, 2023:

Fastest Pitstop @/FastestPitStop:

Andretti has reportedly moved to the final stage of FIA selection to become a Formula 1 team. The FIA has rejected the proposals of Hitech, Rodin Carlin, and LKYSUNZ, an Asian team financed with 1 billion from an American fund. Regarding LYKSUNZ' project, it was planned to have their headquarters in Asia and Africa, and to provide opportunities for drivers from both continents to get an opportunity to drive in Formula 1.

Simon Dau @/there_is_no_if:

Oh you are planning to have your headquarters in Asia and Africa, and provide opportunities for drivers from those regions to join F1? We've already got Zhou and Albon for Asia and Lewis kind of covers Africa for us too, so no thank you very much. Next!" 🤦‍♂️ #F1 #FIA

michael taylor @/wordsbymt replying to Simon Dau:

You're closer than you think. I personally heard Bernie Ecclestone call Hamilton "the African" at Monza...

Simon Dau, on September 22, 2023: Yep, latest interview with DailyMail, published earlier today:

"I'll tell you Max is one of us. In our sphere of Formula One nobody is like Lewis, nobody is." - Bernie Ecclestone saying the quiet part out loud. #F1

For completion, here is the same day reply to Simon Dau's initial tweet from LYKSUNZ's PR representative:

LYKSUNZ Steve Price @/PlanBstudio replying to Simon Dau:

Not just drivers. [edit] Eventually our entire team will be talent nurtured from our academies. Bringing people from underrepresented communities, cities, countries, and continents in to a global motorsport. Challenging the face and voice of F1 for good.

[borgqueens]

A brave Pennsylvania girl has spoken out furiously against teachers and administrators at her school after a transgender student savagely beat her friend using a Stanley cup.

The incident took place at Pennbrook Middle School Wednesday, when the 13-year-old blindsided her 12-year-old female victim in the school cafeteria using the cup, hitting her on the head and creating an open wound.

[anarchistdragonnerd]

content warning; Uk tabloids being bad (anti-trans mainly)

EXCLUSIVE Mother of Year 8 pupil scolded over gender is 'proud of her' | Daily Mail Online - the usual transphobia is present, but there is this other thing, that a telegraph article expresses (at the bottom)

"Stories about children self-identifying as animals – sometimes referred to as “furries”"

they really don't understand what a furry is, and although the anti-trans element is bad, it appears like the anti-furry content is worse, and it just annoyed me so much i needed to share.

[useless-englandfacts]

how it started:

how it's going:

[mafaldaknows]

But here’s THE GOOD STUFF:

Archie Hammer has finally been reunited with his loved ones!

✨💕☺️🐾☺️💕✨

(And Liz)🫡😬🤭

And while we’re here, just a reminder that that timeshare salesman rumor has been debunked by The LA Times. I guess The Daily Mail doesn’t bother to check their facts before plastering it in a headline.

[alarrytale]

I'm the person that sent the overexposure ask, and just to clarify I meant mostly out of the public eye for the gp not the fandom. Me and you are deeply in the fandom so we see photos of Harry walking or riding l*me bikes once a week, but those photos are not really reaching the gp and neither is most of the stunt content we get this days. I know Harry keeps getting articles in the Sun and Daily Mail once week or every two weeks, but most of the gp and casual fans are not really reading those gossip mags every day, so most people don't really see those articles constantly. So, in my opinion, while to people in the fandom it might not seem Harry has gone away, to people outside of fandom, he did.

In my personal social accounts last year and the year before I used to get Harry stuff poping on my feed every other day and now I barely see anything, and I think that must be what is happening to the gp as well. So, I think to the most invested fans he is still quite visible even when he is on a "break", but for the gp he did in fact pull back a bit, not completly, of course, be Harry content is the deffinitly way less than it used to be.

Hi, anon!

I think we just have to agree to disagree on this. The Daily Mail (as much as we hate them) is the most read online newspaper in the world. The number of visits to their site from UK citizens equals half the online population of the UK. Internationally the online paper gets 191 millon visits a month. To me that says that the part of the gp that wants celebrity news visit the Daily mail to get their fill. Even those who don't care about celebrity news will see it. So when Harry has an article every week/other week, it's being read by the general public. The articles aren't for fandom at all. It's for the general public. We've actually got little from H that's only for fandom. Just some Ple*sing promo and some show of hands (litterally). The stunt is for the gp, not fandom. The image rehab he does for Corden is for the gp, not fandom. Same with the citrus fruit bikes. We in fandom couldn’t care less.

I think he's on break from fandom. We're not getting fed with new music, shows, promo runs, fan service etc. He's still feeding the gp with stunt content and being seen with other celebrities. So to the gp who don't follow him closely, they might even not know he's said he was going to take a break. He's still active and on their radar. Fandom picks up on it too of course, but since he's not catering to us primarily there is little to discuss and engage fandom. So it's gone quieter in fandom.

I think being active and on people's radar, but only focusing on stunts and fake friendships, while not catering to fans is half of what the overexposure is about. People are getting tired of only seeing him when he's stunting or got something to sell. If that's the only thing fandom is getting we'd rather not see him at all.

[monkeyfishgirl]

Tumblr fake stories are back; and this time they're transphobic

[sounwise]

“Beatles weep as Brian Epstein dies” (in the Daily Mail, August 28, 1967)

[Full transcript beneath the cut:]

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Brian Epstein, millionaire boss of the Beatles, was found dead in bed in his London home yesterday.

Thirty-two-year-old Mr. Epstein was found when his housekeeper called for help because his door was locked and she could get no reply.

He had been suffering from recurring glandular fever and had been taking tablets prescribed for him.

Mr. Don Black, a business associate, said: “I understand his death was an accident.”

Scotland Yard said early today that bottles of tablets were taken from the house.

An officer said: “This is a normal procedure. So far as we are concerned death was due to natural causes.”

A phone call gave the news to the Beatles, who had gone to Bangor in North Wales to join an Indian mystic cult. Mr. Epstein himself was to have gone there today to be initiated into the cult.

The Beatles were meditating in their rooms at Normal College after studying with a Himalayan mystic, Maharishi Yogi, of the International Meditation Society.

A messenger hurried along a corridor to the room of Paul McCartney and said there was an urgent phone call from London.

Paul ran in bare feet downstairs to a telephone kiosk.

A minute later, shocked and pale, he staggered back calling for John, George and Ringo, who ran into the corridor.

“Brian is dead,” he said. Then he burst into tears.

Miss Jane Asher, his girlfriend, Mrs. Cynthia Lennon, model Patti Boyd (Mrs. Harrison) and her sister Jennie were also told.

Later Paul and Miss Asher returned to London in a friend’s car. The others followed in two more cars.

In London last night a crowd gathered outside Mr. Epstein’s £37,500 home in Chapel Street, Belgravia, and his theatre, the Saville, in Shaftesbury Avenue.

Assistant Commissioner J. Lawlor, of Scotland Yard, said after leaving the house: “It was a sudden death. There will probably be a post-mortem. It is a matter from the coroner.”

Later Mr. David Jacobs, Mr. Epstein’s solicitor, left after spending several hours at the house.

He said a statement would be issued by Mr. Epstein’s company, NEMS Enterprises.

At the Saville Theatre the news was announced half an hour after the start of a Sunday night pop concert.

Mr. Epstein was to have taken his usual box seat for the second performance.

As the cheering and clapping died down for the star of the show, Jimi Hendrix, the curtains were dropped and manager Michael Bullock said: “It is with deep regret that I have to tell you that Mr. Brian Epstein was found dead this afternoon.”

Then, in silence, the packed house walked out. The second performance was cancelled.

Mr. Epstein’s mother, Mrs. Queenie Epstein, arrived in London from her home in Liverpool last night. She went to his home in Belgravia, where she is expected to stay until the funeral next week. Mr. Epstein’s father, Mr. Harry Epstein, died just over a month ago. He was a warden of the Greenbank Drive Synagogue, Liverpool, until last year.

Mr. Epstein's death stunned all the stars he had made famous.

THE BEATLES: At Bangor John Lennon said: “Brian’s death is a blow. We were all so near achieving perfect bliss.

“The Maharishi told us not to get overwhelmed by this grief and to keep the thoughts we had of Brian happy.

“He told us that any happy thoughts we have of Brian Epstein will travel to him wherever he is.

“Thank goodness for transcendental meditation. It gives you confidence to withstand such a shock.”

George Harrison, pale and upset, said: “Brian was one of us. You cannot pay tribute to him in words alone.

“Through the Maharishi we have got to know there is no such thing as death. Death is something physical, but life goes on.

“We know that wherever he is Brian Epstein is OK. He will return because he desired happiness and bliss.”

Ringo said: “We loved Brian. He was a generous man. We owe a lot to him.

“He devoted so much of his life to the Beatles. He worked for us. We have repaid each other all along as much as we can.”

Before the Beatles returned to London George Harrison scotched reports that the group planned to end its association with Mr. Epstein.

“We would never have done such a thing. We would never have broken up. We were too close.” he said.

GERRY MARSDEN, of Gerry and the Pacemakers, who is on a caravan holiday in Anglesey, said: “There will never be another manager like Brian.

“When I heard the news I was completely shattered. I knew Brian for about ten years, and he was our manager for five years.”

BILLY KRAMER, an Epstein discovery, was to have appeared at Peterlee, Co. Durham, last night with the Dakotas, but asked to be released from his contract.

He was returning to London immediately.

CILLA BLACK, the singer Mr. Epstein discovered in Liverpool’s Cavern Club—where the Beatles began—was told in Portugal where she is on holiday.

In an interview in Queen magazine last month Brian Epstein said: “I believe in my close associates and I believe in life because it holds forth hope for the future—a future in which I can create and develop and in which young people as a whole can develop.

“I don't specifically believe in God, but I think believing in life is just as good.

“I think the current generation of teenagers will hand down something quite wonderful for the future—gentleness, love and a desire for peace.”