PETER JACKSON
The Beatles’ first album and Ron Evans’ landing on the international stage happened as near simultaneously in 1963 as made no difference.
Please, Please Me arrived to a fanfare of trumpets on both sides of the Atlantic. Evans, through no fault of his own, retreated from a winning debut for Wales at Murrayfield to the sound of The Last Post.
It was his luck to win his cap on the day his captain, Clive Rowlands, helped create a Five Nations record which still stands today for the most linesout or lineouts in one international. There were 111 of them at Murrayfield and nobody suf...
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