
Notice something missing? Ringo, of course! This is a topiary sculpture of The Beatles featured near the train station in the industrial town of Liverpool where the fab four grew up. It took 18 painstaking months to grow these plants into Beatle form. Last week somebody chopped off Ringo's head and his figure had to be brought into the nursery for repair and regrowth. Locals figure the vandals were outraged by Ringo's recent comments on a talk show that he "missed nothing" about his hometown.

This photo of The Beatles taken in 1963 by a guy named Tony Barrow who worked with the band, just surfaced in the UK, and it shows the group leading an ordinary life just before they hit it big. This picture was taken at a "typical" English resort of the era and it's not exactly The Four Seasons. Guests are sprawled and sunning themselves on aluminum chairs on a frazzled lawn and cement area. With no sign of a pool. This was taken a month BEFORE their megahit song "She Loves You" hit number one. That's when everything changed.



