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Brian Epstein was born on September 19th, 1934 to well-known Jewish furmiture deeler family. He left his baby time quicly behind: he learned to walk when he was 11 months old and soon afterwards he learned to talk. By appearance he reminded his father with his dark eyes, round face and flexible light brown hair. Epsteins lived at Childwall, one of the finest suburd districks in Liverpool. During the great bommings of Liverpool in 1940 Harry Epstein moved his family to quite safe Southport on the coast in West Lancashire. Brian started the Southport's secondary school but hated it so deeply that his mother had to move him to smaller private school. In spite of Brian's obvious intelligence and smartness he just couldn't adapt there either. But now it was already 1944 and was safe enough to move back to Liverpool. In 1945, when Brian was 11 years old, his mother Malka took him to the concert of Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Ever since that moment Brian started to love and know classical music. His favourite classical composer was Jean Sibelius. Next to the furniture store of Epsteins situated The North End Road Music Store. Afterwards the corporation had ended to Epsteins and worked in the same realty as the furniture store. At the time whem NEMS widended its supply in addition to pianos and radios adding also gramofon records to the selection. Brian was hired to organize and run the new department. In 1958, when televison rushed to markets, Harry Epstein was ready to move to the centre of Liverpool. First store was situated on Great Sharlotte Street near Adelph and the next, bigger one after a year at Whitechapel: three shop floors with two different music departments by Brian's recommend. Soon NEMS advertised itself as "the finest records collection of north".
On Saturday, October 28, Brian Epstein heard first time the name 'Beatles', when one Huyton boy named Raymond Jones asked the record 'My Bonnie'. By NEMS' working principle Brian promised to find out that record. At the same afternoon two other girls asked also for 'My Bonnie' - by The Beatles. Brian changed the Beatles' appearance to more professional suits and told them not to smoke or swear on stage. After being turned down for a recording contract for the Beatles by Ron White of EMI and Mike Smith of Decca in late 1961 and January 1962, he finally secured a contract for them with George Martin at EMI's Parlophone label in June 1962. After the success of the Beatles, Brian also managed other acts, including Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer, Cilla Black, The Fourmost, The Big Three, The Remo Four and Tommy Quickly. Among other TV appearances in Britain, Brian also appeared as the London correspondant on the American TV show Hullabaloo.
Brian Epstein died on August 25, 1967 in London for overdose medicine.
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Brian found out that The Beatles performed daily at The Cavern club, a couple of hundred meters from NEMS, and decided to go there and ask for The Beatles. To Brian Epstein the performance of the band was fascinating. Probably he was anyway more impressed of their appearance (as known homosexual) than their music.