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"No one else had the flair, the panache, the wit that Brian had," says Paul McCartney. So why did he die miserably and alone?

Jon Savage, The Guardian, 18 December 1998

Jon Savage describes how Brian Epstein fell victim to drugs and the pressures of being a secret homosexual.

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