Most literary people when they think of past magazines called The Idler would cite Samuel Johnson’s famous miscellany and Jerome K Jerome’s humorous organ of the1890s. Today’s Idler is edited by the anti-corporatist and ukelele enthusiast Tom Hodgkinson, author of How to be Free. But there was another Idler, which is, as yet, unknown to Wikipedia, and indeed has a very, very low online profile.
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Trivial info on the Beatles from their 'fab' days. Found in 'Fabulous' 1965. Surely they were the first 'boy band' and the template for all boy bands since?
John flew to Hong Kong wearing pyjamas.
John is a cat lover.
Ringo spent much of his childhood in a Cheshire hospital.
John used to envy his cousin Stanley's Meccano set.
Brian Epstein hesitated a long time before taking Ringo as a replacement for Pete Best.
Patti Boyd didn't like the Beatles before she met them on the set of A Hard Day's Night.
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