Pablo Fanques Fair: Leeds, The Beatles, and The Benefit of Mr Kite @CatherineWarr

Pablo Fanques Fair: Leeds, The Beatles, and The Benefit of Mr Kite @CatherineWarr

Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

"The Hendersons will all be there, late of Pablo Fanque's fair..."

So goes Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite, on The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. But who was Pablo Fanque? And why is he buried in a cemetery in Leeds?

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