Geiorge Harrison, the youngest Beatle and the only one who shows any interest in the business side of their career, might produce records for other pop stars. Paul McCartney -- at 22, the Beatle with the best looks and on-stage personality -- is likely to continue a show business career as a solo.. Ringo Starr (born Richard Starkey), the oldest of the four and the prototype of a non-verbal pop musician, hasn't voiced a preference for anything but a future of playing the drums and tossing his eyebrow-length hair. Only John Lennon, 24 and the only married Beatle, has shown signs of a talent outside the hothouse world of musical fadism and teenage worship: he has written a book titled In His Own Write -- a slender, whimsical collection anecdotes, poems, and Thurber-like drawings -- that is in its seventh printing here.

The difficulty of getting to the Beatles at all (one London columnist claimed he had less trouble interviewing De Gaulle), plus Lennon's extreme reluctance to talk to strangers (he cares, explained Brian Epstein, "not a fig or a damn or a button for anyone save a tight, close-guarded clique of less than a dozen") have kept him a mystery. Yet he continues to be spoken of as "the Beatle who will last," "the intellectual one," and "a popular hero, who, like Sinatra, gained fame through teenage adulation. but can keep it through talent."

Will he last"

-- Excerpted from "Beatle With a Future" by Gloria Steinem from December of 1964