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Beatles named 'icons of century'
The Beatles have beaten jazz star Louis
Armstrong and TV actress Lucille Ball
to be named icons of the century by
readers of US magazine Variety.
It named the Liverpool band "the sole
group who has most shaped the face of
modern-day showbusiness".
The magazine ranked 100 iconic
entertainment figures from the last 100
years, with industry figures drawing up
a shortlist that readers voted on.
What a Wonderful World singer Armstrong
came second, with Ball in third place.
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