Writer-producer Vivek J. Tiwary spoke to a rapt audience at TEDx Talk Fulton Street about the birth of the Beatles and impossible dreams: “So, you’ve got in Brian Epstein a 26-year-old gay Jew, running around a dirty old port town in the north of England, saying ‘I’ve found a rock n’ roll band who are going to elevate pop music into an art form.’ For me, emotionally speaking, that didn’t seem so distant from the 26-year-old scrawny Indian weirdo that I was, running around New York City’s Lower East Side saying ‘I’m going to write comic books and I’m going to take a punk rock album and put it on a Broadway stage.’” 

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