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"She loved Greenville. She had a wonderful zest for life," Trude Heller's daughter Francie Heller said.

CT band the Remains rubbed elbows with the Beatles, Donna Summer and more Michael Catarevas FacebookTwitterEmail From left, Chip, Bill, Barry and Vern on stage after playing a club show in Los Angeles in 2006, the 40th anniversary of the Beatles tour.Courtesy of America’s Lost Band, Manhattan Productions Inc. When four young, bleary-eyed rock musicians ambled into the midtown Manhattan office of General Artists Corp. one June afternoon in 1966, they could have had no idea that what they were about to hear would inform their careers and lives forever. “You guys wanna play on the Beatles’...

The morning after Bill Connell graduated from Tuscaloosa High School, class of '66, decked out in Sunday-go-to-meetin' silver shark skin suit, he flew out of the Druid City at 7 a.m. on Southern Airways, and into New York City on Duane Allman's dime. The 17-year-old musician was joining the Allman Joys, a quartet precursor to the fabled Allman Brothers Band, hired to replace Maynard Portwood, who despite being talented on the skins, was cursed with a sugar addiction that pushed him to spend intended dentistry dollars on peach sodas and pralines. Those cravings left him virtually too...