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Inside the Beatles' messy breakup, 50 years ago

  • Written by Tim Riley, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director for Journalism, Emerson College
Inside the Beatles' messy breakup, 50 years agoWho broke up with whom?Anurag Papolu/The Conversation via Getty Images

Fifty years ago, when Paul McCartney announced he had left the Beatles, the news dashed the hopes of millions of fans, while fueling false reunion rumors that persisted well into the new decade.

In a press release on April 10, 1970 for his first solo album, “McCartney,&rdqu...

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