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Dr. Strangelove & the Fab Four

Dr. Strangelove mid-"She Loves You"                                               screen shot
Sure, he was Chief Inspector Clouseau (the Pink Panther series) and Hrundi V. Bakshi (The Party) and Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Muffley, and Dr. Strangelove (Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), not to mention Chauncey Gardiner (Being There), but the inimitable Peter Sellers (1925-1980) was also Laurence Olivier's Richard III performing a spoken-word version of his friends The Beatles's "A Hard Day's Night" and both Dr. Strangelove and an Irishman (not at the same time) covering "She Loves You." Difficult to fathom, I know, but there you have it, and there you have, in a nutshell, Peter Sellers, and that's why it's good that his performances have been preserved on tape (story, videos): http://www.openculture.com/2015/05/peter-sellers-covers-the-beatles-a-hard-days-night-she-loves-you-help.html

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