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sting like a bee
Benson took The Beatles to
meet Cassius Clay (Miami
Beach, 1964), later known as
Muhammad Ali. During one
of his practices, Clay had the
band members line up, lie
down, and take his punches.
They were not amused. "They
wouldn't speak to me for about
a month," Benson writes.