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The Beatles rehearsing at the Cavern on August 22, 1962. Photos by Bill Connell and Les Chadwick.

“[At the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg, 1960] We started hanging out with [Rory Storm and the Hurricanes]. I think we’d met Ringo once before, in England. I know we all had the same impression about him: ‘You’d better be careful of him, he looks like trouble.’ […] Out of all the amateur bands in Liverpool, they were the most professional. So when they came to Hamburg Allan Williams told us: ‘You’d better pull your socks up because Rory Storm and the Hurriances are coming in, and you know how good they are. They’re going to knock you for six.’ They would do the show and Ringo was the cocky one at the back; and with the way he looked, with that gray streak in his hair and half a gray eyebrow and a big nose, he looked a real tough guy. But it probably only took half an hour to realize it was actually… Ringo!“ - George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology (2000)

“[E]very time Ringo sat in, it seemed like ‘this is it.’ Eventually we realized, ‘We should get Ringo in the band full time.’ I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John until they came round to the idea. I remember going to his house. He wasn’t in so I sat and had some tea with his mother and I said, ‘We’d like Ringo to be in our band.’ She said, ‘Well, he’s in Butlins holiday camp with Rory at the moment, but when he rings me I’ll get him to phone you,’ and I gave her our number.” - George Harrison, ibid

“Historically it may look like we did something nasty to Pete, and it may have been that we could have done it better. But the thing was, as history also shows, Ringo was the member of the band, it’s just that he didn’t enter the film until that particular scene, you know?” - George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology documentary (1995)

“It was almost like we were waiting to get going. And we couldn’t go until all The Beatles were in the frame.” - George Harrison, 1990s interview for the Anthology, included in Living In The Material World (2011) (x)

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getting that august feeling (things that have ended endlessly are ending again)

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“Sometimes people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.”

— Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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“You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.”

— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle