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Lonely Hearts Club Band
"We found ourselves in a strange community hall somewhere in the East End," McCullin writes. "Somebody produced a parrot. The light was terrible, and I was struggling with reloading my cameras. There was an old upright piano, and they started fooling around with it."

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