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Sgt. Pepper Hits the Road

Susin Shapiro, Crawdaddy!, February 1975

NEW YORK — It had to happen. The formation of a road show with the music of Lennon and McCartney had to be money in the bank. And the rock entrepreneur with the keenest eye for filthy lucre and pop pablum had to be Robert Stigwood, head of an organization with its sticky fingers on the pulse of the theater, film, TV and record worlds.

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