NEW York Times bestselling author Richard Buskin recently shared on his Facebook page Buskin with The Beatles this story of two of The Beatles on a hitchhiking holiday in 1959.

The trip took Paul McCartney and George Harrison to Chepstow as they travelled to North Wales.

Mr Buskin, who has given us his permission to retell the story, is also an award-winning photo-journalist specialising in pop culture, music, film, TV and general non-fiction.

August '59. George was 16, Paul was still nine months older...

"One year, Paul and I decided to go hitchhiking," George would recall in the Beatles Anthology book. "It’s something nobody would dream about these days.

"Firstly you’d probably be mugged before you got through the Mersey Tunnel, and secondly everybody’s got cars and is already stuck in a traffic jam.

"I’d often gone down with my family down South to Devon, to Exmouth, so Paul and I decided to go there first.

“We didn’t........

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