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http://www.theguardian.com/music/201...s-dies-aged-90
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...to-me-20160309
from the web:
Toward the end of Martin's life, Connolly wrote a radio play, Sorry, Boys, You've Failed the Audition – which aired on the BBC – that imagined what would have happened to the Beatles if Martin had turned them down. Connolly sent him a copy of the show "in case he had missed it."
"I got a very sad letter back saying, 'Dear Ray, thank you so much for sending the recording, but unfortunately, I'm stone deaf now and I can't hear a word of it,'" shares Connolly. "Fortunately, Judy, his wife, had lip read it out to him and he knew what he had said in my play. George couldn't hear it, which I found really upsetting."