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Beatles' First Road Manager Neil Aspinall Dies

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Beatles' First Road Manager Neil Aspinall Dies

Originally posted 03/24/2008 01:30PM

Neil Aspinall, a longtime friend and member of The Beatles' business enterprises, died of cancer in New York City, surviving members of the band announced Monday, the Associated Press reports. He was 66.

British newspapers reported over the weekend that Paul McCartney, 65, visited the hospital where Aspinall, who was a Liverpool school chum of McCartney and George Harrison's, was being treated.

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