{"id":30224,"date":"2024-08-27T15:05:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T15:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-27-1967-the-beatles-manager-brian-epstein-died\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T15:05:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T15:05:06","slug":"on-this-day-aug-27-1967-the-beatles-manager-brian-epstein-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-27-1967-the-beatles-manager-brian-epstein-died\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Aug. 27, 1967: The Beatles manager Brian Epstein died"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-27\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Aug. 27, 1967 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Beatles<\/strong> manager <strong>Brian Epstein<\/strong> died at the age of 32.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Epstein\u00a0died from a drug overdose and was found by his butler in his London home, although his staff removed any drug paraphernalia\u00a0from the house before\u00a0calling the police. His\u00a0death was officially ruled an accident. None of The Beatles attended Epstein\u2019s funeral in order to avoid any unnecessary media attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Epstein, known as The Fifth Beatle, managed the band from 1962 to his death. He met them in December 1961 when they performed at The Cavern Club in Liverpool and was the one who was tasked with firing original drummer <strong>Pete Best<\/strong>, who was later replaced by <strong>Ringo Starr<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Epstein managed other\u00a0artists during his career, including <strong>Gerry and the Pacemakers<\/strong>, <strong>Cila Black<\/strong> and <strong>The Moody Blues<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A movie about Epstein, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Midas Man<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, recently premiered at the 2024 Toronto Jewish Film Festival. It stars\u00a0<strong>Jacob Fortune-Lloyd\u00a0<\/strong>as Epstein, with\u00a0a cast that also\u00a0includes\u00a0<strong>Emily Watson<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Eddie Marsan<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Jay Leno\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Eddie Izzard<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Aug. 27, 1967 &#8230; The Beatles manager Brian Epstein died at the age of 32. Epstein\u00a0died from a drug overdose and was found by his butler in his London home, although his staff removed any drug paraphernalia\u00a0from the house before\u00a0calling the police. His\u00a0death was officially ruled an<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-27-1967-the-beatles-manager-brian-epstein-died\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}