A Hard Day's Knightsbridge! Flat shared by George and Ringo at the height of Beatlemania goes on the market for £2.5million
The two bedrooms and en-suite master offer 'versatile accommodation' in an apartment building which comes with its own porter, according to the agents, but the property 'will require some updating'. Harrison and Starr moved to the London flat at the recommendation of their manager Brian Epstein, who lived upstairs on the fifth floor from December 1963 until 1965. Epstein hosted a number of parties in his top-floor flat including a legendary gathering in August 1964, which all four Beatles, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Judy Garland, among others, are believed to have attended. The celebrations spread to the roof of the building where a temporary ballroom - complete with red carpet was set up in a marquee. Harrison and Starr's flat was burgled on 19 April 1964 while the pair were at a recording session and a party - but little was stolen apart from cufflinks, cash and souvenirs from a trip to the U.S. ,.
A year later the Beatles met at the property for a cup of tea before they travelled to Buckingham Palace - less than a mile away - to receive their MBE medals as part of the Queen's Birthday Honours list.Harrison and Starr also lived with model Pattie Boyd - who was then dating husband-to-be Harrison - until March 1965, when Harrison and Boyd moved to a bungalow in Esher, Surrey. Starr moved on to Montagu Square in Marylebon, London.
Source: The Daily Mail, UK
