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In November 1963, two hundred women working at a cotton mill in Accrington went on strike after their foreman banned them from listening to the radio programme Housewives' Choice: he was sick of the way they would start to scream the moment a Beatles song came on.

There is a scene in Help!(.)filmed in the Bahamas(.)Meanwhile, the area was surrounded by nets to keep sharks at bay. Victor Spinetti watched as Ringo kept leaping overboard for take after take, only to be picked up and hoisted back onto the yacht, shivering.

'Oh V-vi-vic', he said (.), 'd-d-do I have to do this a-g-gain?'
'Why?' I asked him. His answer stunned me.
'I c-c-can't swim.'

'THE HAIR...THE HAIR. What did it mean? It was a surprise, a shock.You couldn't see them on the radio'.
Bruce's [Springsteen] immediate reaction was to have his hair styled like the Beatles. (...) when his father saw what he had done, 'his first response was laughter. It was funny. Then, not so funny. Then, he got angry. Then, finally, he popped his burning question: "Bruce, are you queer?"'