Touring might have crushed his spirits and stultified his creativity, but it had also had its advantages. These years on the Beatlemania treadmill had spared him almost all the more tedious obligations of growing from adolescence into manhood and becoming a husband and father. But on another, typically contradictory level, they had also given a stem of duty and responsibility to his existence: when he donned his stage suit, it was in the spirit of a soldier going “over the top” with his comrades. For all the frustrations of the road, there was much that he realized he would miss: the laughs,
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