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The Beatles: Twist and Shout

Mark Rozzo, The New York Times, 25 March 2011

IN APRIL OF 1961, an English art-school screw-up and musician named John Lennon stepped into a doorway in the St. Pauli neighborhood of Hamburg, Germany, and had his image snapped by a local photographer named Jürgen Vollmer.

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