Maureen Cleave worked for the London Evening Standard from 1958 conducting interviews with many prominent musicians of the era, including Bob Dylan and John Lennon.
12 Facts About Maureen Cleave
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Maureen Cleave grew up in Ireland, her mother Isabella's country of origin with an English father, Major John Cleave, of the 7th Rajputs.
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Maureen Cleave attended Rosleven boarding school in Athlone and Howell's Girls' School in Denbigh, before reading Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford.
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Maureen Cleave convinced its editor, Charles Wintour, to make her a show business correspondent and to let her write a pop music column called "Disc Date".
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Maureen Cleave travelled to Liverpool to interview the Beatles in January 1963 after a tip from a friend working there.
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Maureen Cleave began guesting on TV's pop panel game Juke Box Jury in 1964 alongside Millicent Martin, Matt Monro and Bobby Vee.
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Maureen Cleave ended her association with Lennon in 1966, the same year she married.
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Maureen Cleave favoured talking to individuals who were not celebrities and avoided actors and politicians "because they've said it all before".
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Maureen Cleave later wrote a warm tribute to Lennon in The Telegraph Weekend Magazine a decade after he was murdered in December 1980.
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Maureen Cleave was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, shortly after collapsing on the platform of Tottenham Court Road tube station in August 1992.
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Maureen Cleave died on 6 November 2021, two weeks after her 87th birthday.
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Maureen Cleave suffered a short illness prior to her death.