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Ticket to write: Derek Taylor’s front-line dispatches from Sixties counterculture

Diaries of the Beatles’ press agent illustrate his proximity to the cultural tremors of that extraordinary decade.

By Richard Whitehead

Ticket to write: Derek Taylor’s front-line dispatches from Sixties counterculture

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Uncommon People sweeps you along as if you were trapped in a mosh pit

David Hepworth's account of the rise and rall of the rock star – from Presley to Dylan, Ian Dury to Kurt…

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