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Neil Aspinall
Neil Aspinall The Beatles first road manager and personal assistant who was at the inception of the band in Liverpool was born in Prestatyn in 1941 when his mother arrived in the town as an evacuee from Liverpool during the second world war.He subsequently attended Liverpool institute for performing arts in Mount Street, and was in the same class as Paul Mcartney and George Harrison who were all to become lifelong friends.
In 1967 The Beatles asked Neil Aspinall to take over managment of AppleCorps (a play on words and pronounced "apple core") a multi media corporation with it's foremost division being Apple Records.In 1967 Neil Aspinall supervised the launch of the iconic Beatles album Sergent Pepper, and was instrumental in the album's soaring success, and recently voted as the greatest album of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
Although he wasn't a musician Neil Aspinall played harmonica on the Sergent Pepper track, for the benefit of Mr Kite, and was one of the many who sang in the chorus of 'Yellow Submarine', he also played some percussion on The Magical Mystery Tour.Neil Aspinall lived in Twickenham, Middlesex and died of cancer at the age of 66 in New York in 2008.
Prestatyn born Neil Aspinall has left a priceless lasting legacy to the music business that will be treasured by future generations.
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