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...Something Big." Son of a prosperous department-store owner in Liverpool, Epstein was a sensitive boy who dropped out of his seventh and last school at 16. The army discharged him after twelve maladjusted months; he got nowhere at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was 25 before he made a go of something-running one of his family's record departments...
...customer asked for a record made in Germany by a group called the Beatles. When Epstein discovered they were playing near by in a joint named The Cavern, he took a squint. "It was a smoky, smelly, pretty squalid cellar," he later recalled, "and their act was ragged, undisciplined, and their clothes were a mess. Yet I recognized the appeal of their beat, and I rather liked their humor. I sensed something big-if it could be at once harnessed and at the same time left untamed." That was Brian Epstein's life work: organizing the unruly Merseyside boys...
Mystic Cult. With the Beatles cutting out personal appearances and thus needing him less and less, Epstein built up a management agency for other big-beat talent. He bought a West End theater and produced such works as James Baldwin's Amen Corner. He also made a none too impressive debut as host of a five-minute segment of NBC's Hullabaloo TV series...
...When Epstein died last week, the Beatles were some 225 miles away in Wales, getting initiated into an Indian mystic cult led by one Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -a recent enthusiasm of theirs. All four Beatles rushed back to London, making statements like John's, "We loved Brian...
...Epstein's funeral service in a Liverpool synagogue, no Beatle was present...