My Dad broke up The Beatles! OK, so maybe that statement isn’t wholly true but I can state as fact that my Dad had a conversation with John Lennon in 1969 and only six months later Lennon announced that he was leaving The Beatles! What on earth did my Dad say to him?? The story goes like this. In 1969 my father was working for the Birmingham Mail, the Midlands’ top-selling newspaper. He was the political editor and has since told me many times that he had no real interest in