Maureen Cleave was a music journalist who was a confidante of the Beatles, having written about them since their early days of fame.Cleave worked for the London Evening Standard, where she began writing the column “Disc Date” in 1961.
She was among the first journalists to write seriously about rock and pop music, as well as one of the first to cover the Beatles.
She first wrote about the band in 1963, and she developed a relationship with the band members as she interviewed them a number of times over the next three years.
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