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Andy Price

“Mick looked peeved. The Beatles had upstaged him”: When the Beatles stole the Rolling Stones’ thunder and dropped Hey Jude at the Beggars Banquet launch party

Beatles/Stones.

Despite the media-goaded Beatles vs. Stones legend, the two totemic bands that shaped the 1960s were, on the whole, always on fairly amicable terms.

Yes, there was the odd bit of wry jibing - and the respectful admiration for each other's work could often spill over into jealousy - yet the two pillars of British pop remained socially intertwined regularly throughout the 1960s.

It was a relationship first cemented when John Lennon and Paul McCartney first penned I Wanna Be Your Man back in 1963, and handed it to Dartford’s finest - then on the rise.

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