Today it would have been John Lennon's 80th birthday so we are looking back at the times he and the other Beatles visited Oxfordshire.
The Fab Four from Liverpool played the Carfax Assembly Room in February, 1963 but there were other visits too and quite a few strong connections between the band and the county.
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The Beatles scored their first number one hit a week later when Please Please Me topped the charts.
A ticket for the Beatles concert
One person lucky enough to have a ticket for the concert was 15-year-old Syd Kearney, from Headington.
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He said in 2008: "It was just an ordinary dance, we thought. The reason I was there was that a friend knew The Beatles after having seen them at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.
The Beatles with Jeffrey Archer
"It was a great night, but nobody thought they were going to be the phenomenon they ended up being."
Syd was lucky enough to catch up with the Beatles backstage after the show and got their autographs, on part of a Morris Motors radiators branch document, which was the only piece of paper he had with him at the time.
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In November that year, the Beatles were in Oxfordshire again, pausing to have lunch at the Windrush Inn, in Burford Road, Witney.
Roy Young who played with the Beatles
Our picture shows John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr standing outside.
Other visits included a fundraiser at Vincent's club in 1964 organised by Jeffrey Archer, who went on to be a bestselling novelist and is now Lord Archer.
The group also dropped in at Brasenose College.
Sir George Martin
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Other strong local connections include George Harrison living for many years at Friar Park mansion in Henley. He died in 2001.
Fans in Didcot wait for the Beatles
And the fifth Beatle, Sir George Martin, lived near Faringdon. He died in 2016.
John Lennon in New York in 1974
John Lennon died in 1980 after being shot outside his Manhattan apartment in New York.
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