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Steve Boone Offers Another Taste of The Lovin' Spoonful

Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 6 February 2019

IT WAS THE evening of August 23, 1966. In the bowels of New York's Shea Stadium – though only they knew it – the Beatles were preparing for what would likely be one of their final concerts in front of a paid audience. But instead of pacing the floor, the biggest band in the world were amiably visiting and chatting it up with one of their own favorite groups, the Lovin' Spoonful.

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