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We watched the half-hour TV programme last night about the rock band made up of 4O senior citizens: Zimmers by name and in some cases zimmer frames by necessity. The group was the brainchild of the documentary producer, Tim Samuels. ‘This is about old people sticking it back to the society that has cast them aside», he says. So he brought together pensioners, some of whom were tired of life and of being marginalised by the rest of society, and got them into the recording studios where The Beatles had made many of their discs. There they recorded their version