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CT band the Remains rubbed elbows with the Beatles, Donna Summer and more
Michael Catarevas
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From left, Chip, Bill, Barry and Vern on stage after playing a club show in Los Angeles in 2006, the 40th anniversary of the Beatles tour.Courtesy of America’s Lost Band, Manhattan Productions Inc.
When four young, bleary-eyed rock musicians ambled into the midtown Manhattan office of General Artists Corp. one June afternoon in 1966, they could have had no idea that what they were about to hear would inform their careers and lives forever.
“You guys wanna play on the Beatles’ August tour across America?” a GAC exec asked the band members of the Remains, who had all recently dropped out of Boston University to play and write songs full-time. “If you do, I can get you on it.”