FIVE DAYS AFTER BRIAN EPSTEIN’S DEATH, THE BEATLES MET AT PAUL McCARTNEY’S HOME — AND ONE HAND-DRAWN “CAKE” WOULD LAUNCH THEIR STRANGEST NEW ERA
Only five days after Brian Epstein’s sudden death stunned The Beatles and left the world’s most famous band without the man who had guided them from Liverpool clubs to global superstardom, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr gathered at Paul McCartney’s home on Cavendish Avenue in St. John’s Wood. The atmosphere could hardly have…