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Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
Sun May 15, 2016, 09:30 AM May 2016

Tony Barrow, PR man for The Beatles, dead at 80

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/beatles-pr-tony-barrow-who-11334017

Tony Barrow - the man who coined the phrase “The Fab Four” for The Beatles - has died aged 80.

Mr Barrow had worked for the Beatles in the 1960s as a press officer having previously been a freelance record reviewer fo the Liverpool ECHO.

Today Beatles and Merseybeat expert Spencer Leigh tweeted “Just heard that TONY BARROW the Beatles press officer, the man who named them the Fab Four died last night. He was 80 last Wednesday.”

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Cross gently, Tony...
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Tony Barrow, PR man for The Beatles, dead at 80 (Original Post) Cooley Hurd May 2016 OP
That is very sad... another piece of history lost. Rhiannon12866 May 2016 #1
... lunamagica May 2016 #2
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