Neil Aspinall
- 66 years old
- Born Oct 13, 1941
- Died Mar 24, 2008
- New York City, United Kingdom
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REMEMBER
NEIL Aspinall, a long-time friend of the Beatles who managed their enterprises and helped them become a money-making phenomenon decades after they split, has died at 66.
His death was announced in a statement from Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the widows of John Lennon and George Harrison, and the band's Apple Corps company.
He died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York City, where he had been treated for lung cancer. His wife and children were by his side. McCartney visited him before his death.
He went to school with McCartney and Harrison at the Liverpool Institute for Boys.
"I've known Neil many years and he was a good friend. We were blessed to have him in our lives and he will be missed," Starr said.
Mr Aspinall was the Beatles' first road manager and would drive them to gigs in his van. In 1968, he took over the management of Apple and oversaw their growth even after they broke up in 1970.
(Nekesa Mumbi Moody, New York)
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My Memory
Doug Rivera (Apr 13, 2008)
The meaning off friendship
e (Apr 09, 2008)
The Beatles Anthology ( documentary) - Neil's great contribution
Mark (Apr 05, 2008)
What is incredible about the story that is told in the Anthology is how the principal characters ( The Beatles plus Neil, Brian Epstein, George Martin etc.) were in the hub of an incrediblly pivitol turning point in the history of humanity.
A whole generation looked to the Beatles more than anyone else to show the way in what has turned out to no less than a huge evolutionary leap. The Beatles at their best sang to us about youthful innocence and what bliss could really be rather than about the path of war and destruction.
They were the focal point of a generation and even today their message speaks as freshly as it did in 1963.
Thank you Neil Aspinall - you were the one who gave and gave behind the scenes and never got the glory - until many of us became aware of the huge role you played in history as the truth came to light in the documentary masterpiece THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY.