NEMS Enterprises first met the Beatles in 1961 at a lunchtime concert at Liverpool's Cavern Club.
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NEMS Enterprises first met the Beatles in 1961 at a lunchtime concert at Liverpool's Cavern Club.
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NEMS Enterprises attempted to get the Beatles a recording contract, eventually securing a deal with EMI's Parlophone label.
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NEMS Enterprises spent two years at Wrekin College in Wellington, Shropshire, where he was taught the violin.
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NEMS Enterprises did not want his parents to find out, so he worked as a department store clerk until he had earned enough money to buy a train ticket back to Liverpool.
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NEMS Enterprises revealed that he would have liked to produce a theatre play, or even act, "in something by Chekhov", or a "straight drama" by John Osborne.
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NEMS Enterprises's assailant was sentenced to serve 2 years in jail, and Epstein was not charged.
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NEMS Enterprises often walked across the road to the Lewis's department store where Peter Brown was employed.
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NEMS Enterprises watched Brown's sales technique and was impressed enough to lure him to work for NEMS with the offer of a higher salary and a commission on sales.
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Epstein then formed a management company, NEMS Enterprises, telling his parents that managing the group was only a part-time occupation and would not interfere with the family business.
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NEMS Enterprises later told Taylor, "Well, if they ever want to tear it up, they can hold me but I can't hold them".
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NEMS Enterprises offered the position to Johnny Hutchinson of the Big Three, a group that Epstein managed at that time as well.
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NEMS Enterprises called Best and Neil Aspinall to his office on Whitechapel Street, where he informed Best that the Beatles would replace him with Starr.
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NEMS Enterprises pressured them to continue touring, but they steadfastly refused.
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NEMS Enterprises booked the Beatles' concerts, and it presented groups as an opening act.
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NEMS Enterprises sent his roster of artists on "package tours" around the UK, a common practice at the time.
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NEMS Enterprises had politely declined on behalf of the group, as it was their policy never to accept such official invitations.
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NEMS Enterprises once offered to sell the control of NEMS to Stigwood, without telling any of his artists about the offer.
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Epstein refused to allow the Beatles to endorse any product directly, but through NEMS Enterprises he granted discretionary licences to companies who were able to produce good-quality products at a fair price, even though many companies were already selling products without a licence.
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NEMS Enterprises suggested to Epstein that during the flotation Lennon and McCartney should move to houses near Isherwood's own in Esher.
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NEMS Enterprises promoted new works by writers such as Arnold Wesker in productions that occasionally fell foul of the Lord Chamberlain for including "obscene" content or nudity.
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NEMS Enterprises hosted a regular part of the US television show Hullabaloo, filming his appearances in the UK.
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NEMS Enterprises wore the uniform when cruising the bars of London, but was arrested one night at the Army and Navy Club in Piccadilly by the military police for impersonating an officer.
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NEMS Enterprises once saw Epstein put a Dunhill lighter worth £100 on the table, then lose it during a game of cards.
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NEMS Enterprises was discovered after his butler who, having been unable to rouse Epstein via his locked bedroom door, called Epstein's PA, Joanne Petersen.
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NEMS Enterprises attended and failing to rouse Epstein called his doctor who, along with the butler, broke down the door and found Epstein in his bed, appearing to be asleep, a book opened near his hand and some digestive biscuits on the nightstand.
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NEMS Enterprises explained that when he wrote the note and composed the will he had simply taken one pill too many, and that he had no intention of overdosing, promising to be more careful in the future.
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