Complete the sentences with the appropriate verbs in past simple (2)

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past2ex.jpg1. John Lennon The Beatles with Paul McCartney. They about 30 records and three films. In1969 he Yoko Ono, a Japanese artist. He The Beatles in 1970 and to work with Yoko. In 1980 a 25-year-old fan him in front of his apartment in New York.
2. Humphrey Bogart an actor in 1922. He more than 80 films. His best film Casablanca (1942). He four times. His last wife Lauren Bacall, a famous actress. They two children. He of cancer in 1957.
3. Elvis Presley his first songs in the early 50s. A disc jockey in Memphis his songs on the radio and one a hit. In 1955 when he a record contract and a lot of money, he his mother a pink Cadillac. He his dream house, "Graceland", in Memphis. He his wife, Priscilla, in 1959. They married in 1967 in Las Vegas. He of a heart attack at "Graceland" in 1977.
4. Agatha Christie hundreds of detective novels. She the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the village spinster Miss Marple. In 1926 she an argument with her husband and for a week. The police for her because they she was dead. She her first husband in 1928 and married again in 1930.