Dawn of The Beatles: The Beatles' Story 1957–1963 | Documentary (Reupload)

In the summer of

1957

it became clear that 17-year-old John Lennon was not interested in his artistic education or his future; His only interest seemed to be the American rock and roll craze in England. For John there was nothing resembling rock music on the radio; There were only two ways to listen to it: one was through records that the young people who worked at The Shipping Lines brought from the United States and the other was through Radio Luxembourg, a privately owned company. Commercial radio station with a signal strong enough to reach most of Central Europe and Great Britain every night at 8:00.

John was listening on a cheap wireless in his room, galvanized by the faint crackling sounds of rock, and then three major musical incidents seem to happen. In a row, there was first an English fad called skiffle, a form of the American washboard in the band Tinkin that anyone with a metal washboard could play. The Rock Island line sung in a high-pitched Whale tone by a young Lonnie Donigan became a teen anthem. Then came the American juvenile delinquent film Blackboard Jungle with the title song Rock Around the Clock unlike anything ever heard in Britain, finally came the musical and physical embodiment of it, the first rock star who was not a father figure. as Bill Haley was a teenager the essence of young lust and rebellion fused with new music his song was Heartbreak Hotel and his name was Elvis Presley Elvis' name was all everyone heard on mendips John's Aunt Mimi couldn't stand it afterwards For a few weeks John wanted a guitar more than anything he had. that he had ever wanted in his life once he had it in his hands he wouldn't let go of it a small Spanish model with cheap wire threads he touched it continuously until his fingers bled he sat on the bed all day and when Mimi tried to put it on In the sunlight he would go out on the porch and lean against the brick wall practicing his guitar for so long that Mimi thought he would rub some of the brick off his butt.

The guitar is very good, John, but you will do it. He never made a living from it. John's first group was called Cory Men, after his high school, Cory Bank. In it were his neighborhood friends Pete Shoton, Nigel Wall-E and Ivan Vaugh, along with several other kids from school wandering in and out of The Quarrymen, though they sported business cards announcing open engagements as if they were expecting to get paid. They were happy to play wherever there was an audience to hear them it was at one of those church destinations on the hot Saturday afternoon of 6 July

1957

at St Peter's Parish Church.

In Walton, Vaugh and I invited a friend from school named Paul McCartney. Young Paul was only 14 at the time and did not come because he was interested in the stonemason. He came because Ivan convinced him that Fate would be a great place to choose. girls after performing Maggie May. The stonemasons bowed and packed up their equipment, which they carried back to the parish hall, where they were scheduled to perform again that evening. Paul praised the performance, although he had actually observed Jon playing. Paul was obviously even at the age of 15 a born diplomat, but what he really had in mind was to find an opportunity to show how much better he could play, he borrowed a guitar and was. in his masterpiece Eddie Cochran's 20 Flight Rock, a record far beyond the stonemason's competence, then Paul did the balula correctly in contrast to John's silly performance, finally concluding his unsolicited audition with a squeaky Little Richard imitation during his performance.

Paul noticed that this was an old man. coming closer and breathing on my neck while playing what is this old drunk doing? I thought it was John, he was 16 and I was only 14, so he was a big man. I showed him a few more ropes that he didn't know and then I left. I felt like he had made a good impression. John, despite his drunkenness, was impressed by Paul. I thought he is as good as me. He had been the Kingpin until then. I thought if he accepted it, what would happen to him? It occurred to me that I'd have to keep him in line if I let him join a couple of weeks later, Pete shot and bumped into Paul on a bike along Men Love Road after the usual exchange of greetings, Shoton said from the way I've been talking.

John about it and we thought you might like to join the group. A full minute passed as Paul pretended to consider the offer, finally shrugging and replying that he was fine. Paul and John formed an unusual close camaraderie for 2-year-olds. The difference that at first seemed insurmountable to them faded into their mutual interests and similarities, although on the surface the two boys could not have been more different. Paul with a baby face was moralistic, conscientious and deferential to his elders. John challenged authority. He was hedonistic and amoral. He relished the role of him as an outspoken iconoclast.

The first thing Paul did was teach Jon how to tune his guitar. Jon had paid a musically inclined neighbor to do it for him. Once they were both in tune, they began practicing their guitar in earnest. John was using two-finger banjo chords taught to him by his mother Julia, who also taught him how to play banjo versions of his two favorite songs, Little White Lies and Girl of My Dream. It was to their mutual delight that Liverpool's Paul Institute and John's School of Art were in a joining buildings. It was now easier for JN to find an accomplice than to play hooky at school and the two spent long afternoons together at the house.

From Paul on Fourth Lin Road practicing songs, teaching each other chords, and reading the pantry for Jam Bas, they sometimes stood up. in the tiled bathroom tub for better echo, their voices perfectly complementing Paul's sweet round tones softening the edges of John's uptight nasality, an avid songwriting competition developed between them that they would use to feed their spirits. creatives in the years to come. Although they wrote together for only the first year or two, they wrote over 100 songs that first year. As soon as Paul became Quman, he had a lot to say about their music. Characteristically, he began telling the other band members how. and when to play what he most wanted to play lead guitar, which a show guy called Eric Griffiths was playing at the time Paul Badger Griffiths until he quit and then moved into his place, even Pete Shoton, one of the oldest friends and Jon's loyalists, he was a little annoyed by the constant acquiescence to Paul's demands, were replaced by other constantly changing musicians who played in Lenin McCartney Corp as far as John's at Mimi was concerned.

Paul was fueled by the fires that would burn JN in hell. Paul's sweet Persona and irresponsible public relations did not fool her. It was obvious how Paul was wasting Jon's time with the guitar and any guy who dressed like Ted wasn't worth attacking. Paul arrived at Mendips' front door on his bicycle asking for John. Hello Mimi, can I come in? I certainly can't, Meimi would say that Paul's normality, both in terms of personality and stance as an entertainer, sent him to the opposite end of a swing; John considers, for example, how each child dealt with his anger, a crucial issue in any high-stress, 24-hour relationship.

When something made Jon angry, he would get out of control or get in a bad mood. Paul, on the other hand, Vett is angry about the sneak attacks when talking about his relationship with his parents, he confessed that if they ever hit me for being bad, he would go to his room when they were out. and tearing the lace curtains at the bottom a little, this strategy of stabbing the darkness became crucial in the Beatles' internal politics. In fact, Pete Shoton reports that when Paul joined the stonemason, Jon began doing things that embarrassed him so much that he was forced to do them. offer apology an act unheard of for the Brash Lenin although Jon was the leader of the band Paul enjoyed a crucial advantage he was the most prominent musician in the group when he joined the stonemason he became John's guitar tutor the lessons were uncomfortable because Paul was left-handed which meant that dyslexic John learned chords backwards and then had to restore them to their natural positions by studying his hands in a children's mirror in his mid-teens most of his sexual education came from his peers' knowledge. biased anatomical dirty jokes improbable stories of dubious authenticity about girls they barely knew and, of course, masturbation circles.

John's crowd used to gather at Nigel Wally's house on Veil Road, near Men Avenue. We used to have masturbation sessions. When we were young, we would stay overnight and we would all sit around. couches and turned off all the lights and being pubescent teenagers everyone masturbated what we used to do was someone would say Bret B oh that would keep everyone on par then someone would probably say John would say Winston Churchill and it would completely ruin everyone's concentration Paul The first time that they took to the stage was 18 October 1957, when the Cory Men played the Conservative club's premises at the new Moore Hall club in Norris Green Liverpool, although they didn't exactly take Liverpool by storm.

The Quarrymen continued playing enough gigs to reach You Know the Appeals of Being in a Rock and Roll Band when the girls in the audience showed up after the set. We always said the only reason to be in a band was to not have a job and get girls, so when you did a gig, you'd play and try to pick up a girl and after the show maybe your knees would shake, what they call it in an alley or in the back of a shed or garage. Paul hadn't been in the stonemason long before he began lobbying to add his Liverpool High School friend, George Harrison, to the list.

George was a year younger than Paul, so he was just a kid when he met John, but Paul fed Jon's curiosity by telling him that George was a better guitarist than either of them could tell. real solos rather than just strumming when John Paul and Pete descended on George's small house and talked in a model working-class community. George was so into these big boys, especially John, that the poor boy was speechless, yet he pulled off a flawless performance as Bill Justice. Roni, a typical Sun Records rockabilly song with two Strivers of the caliber of Paul McCartney and George Harrison to support it.

Jon should have led his band straight to success, but in reality the group began to break up one night at the regular concert at Wilson Hall. In a tough district near the airport, a fight broke out on stage between Pete Shoton and Colin hon hon told Lennon it's him or me John told Pete that the drums looked better than the washboards Pete came out after JN broke the washboard over his head and Quman disbanded early in 1959, after a gig at Busman's club on Prescot Road, a much fancier establishment than the one they had been invited to play, the first set went well. , but during intermission the boys got drunk, leading to a disastrous second set.

I am the way home. Colin got in. had a falling out with Paul and decided to leave him aside for a handful of dates later in the year, including a couple of amateur shows, that very unprofessional night at the busman's club meant trouble for Cory's men, unusually both Paul and John They had written songs before them. They met at a time when white performers rarely wrote their own material. Paul's knowledge of music, his songwriting, and his ability to play the piano obviously appealed to JN, who must have seen music and possibly songwriting as a last chance to express himself creatively.

He had failed at everything. From his exams at school, he knew that he was not an artist and that he would not pass his intermediate exams at an art college, but he had a tremendous creative drive that needed to get somewhere and, on Paul's side, there was someone with an intelligence fast. He appreciated Jon's aerial wit and the death of his mother gave him the ability to understand Jon's anger at his parents' abandonment. Jon's vulnerability matches his own deep-seated pain. It was obvious that John and Paul had finally found someone else on exactly the same wavelength with a kind of deep mutual recognition that can.

They maintained a friendship for many years with OP's journalist, born of conviction rather than arrogance. They quickly came to see themselves not as rock and rollers but as future Rogers and Hammerstein. Cynthia Powell dedicated herself to John John Lenon with the passion of a religious fanatic, just another man. Surely he would have found the attention suffocating, but John enjoyed every minute, every moment that Cynthia could sneak away from her homework at her house, spend time with him, pay for his cigarettes and coffee, and never leave.I was tired of sitting on a hard bench with him.

At his favorite place, Jack Randa would stare into his eyes for hours while he told her the

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of his life. Guys, when he turned his basement into a small club, the city's many beat groups would sit at small tables and drink coffee with their own liquor. It was at the Jack's where Cynthia met most of John's friends. Her favorite was another art student, a young man. a man named Stu Sutliffe Cynthia already knew him from school, where he was widely considered the most talented and promising child. John moved into Stew's apartment for a while and slept in a slpl line coffin he dug out of a dumpster that he and Stu would spend long nights drinking beer and talking Stu was one of the few people his age that JN found intellectually stimulating, While John's friendship with Paul was special in its own way, it was just one of music and good times with Stu John felt a deep spiritual bond.

He admired Stu not only for his talent and creativity but also for the passion and love he had for his art. His reputation as a promising young artist was already spreading and in 1959, when the John Moore Art Exhibition was held at the prestigious Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, Stu entered. One of the paintings of him in the John Moore competition, a rich Liverpool art. The collector personally bought Stew's painting for 65. John didn't care that Stu had no desire to join a rock group. He was so enthusiastic about the idea that Stu finally broke down and spent the entire £65 on a bass, whether it was the other band. the members liked it or not Stu joined the qu and men who changed their name to Johnny and The Moondogs John's friend that Cynthia least liked was a pestilential boy named George Harrison at the age of 15 George was almost 5 years old Cynthia's Jor and is amusing to her as a brat brother who is more reserved than actually shy, it was obvious that George idolized JN and did his best to emulate him, although George was not invited to join the band because he was too young to be taken seriously.

All year long exhibiting the behavior of the born disciple. George used to follow Cynthia and me around. We were leaving art school together and he was hanging around Sin Gate and I was going to a cafe or the cinema and George followed us down the street about 200 meters behind Sim would say who this guy is. I would say he just wants to hang out if we take him with us. She'd say she's fine, let's take him to the damn movie the day Cynthia had her appendix removed. She waited in her hospital bed all afternoon for a visit from John, who showed up 10 minutes before visiting hours ended.

He hadn't been there a minute before George emerged bounding down the living room hallway like a puppy. Cynthia was so upset seeing him. she burst into tears. George, for her part, was a little more generous in his assessment of Cynthia than she was of him. I think she's great, he confided in her one day, but there's one thing: she had teeth like a horse's, if Paul was a nightmare for Meimi. George was Anath. John tried to smooth the way for George by telling Mimi what a great guy he was before she met him, but once Mimi saw his pink shirt, she kicked him out the door, worst of all because Mimi George's mother, Louise, in The boys with their band gave them a place to practice and food when they were hungry.

Mimi was getting furious. My mother was a big music fan and she was very happy to have the boys around, you know? and John was always willing to go out. from his house because his aunt Mimi was very stern and strict and embarrassed him. I remember going to John's house once when I met him. She was still in high school, we were trying to look like Teddy Boys, which was like That style in those days and I must have looked pretty good because she was like she didn't like me at all. She was very surprised. She said: Look at it.

Do you know who it is that brings this boy to this house? Look at it. He looks like a stuffed child and he was just saying "shut up, shut up, shut up." Louise was a constant source of encouragement to him, telling him that she could master his playing whenever she became discouraged upon meeting John, this had not happened at all, George. He played his best number for them, but no one was very impressed. Still, he followed them in the hope that one day they would ask him to play with them. He went to all of his shows and stood in the back with his guitar a few times when one of the regular guitarists didn't show up.

George was allowed to sit in with the band and on rare occasions even went so far as to do his own just to hold his breath, before anyone realized what was happening, he turned into a moon dog the previous spring. . Elvis had been incorporated. In the US Army and around the world an army of young men dreamed of taking the throne from him. Hundreds of rock groups were forming all over England and in Liverpool every neighborhood seemed to have one. Some groups didn't last more than a week or two. They rose to prominence in their neighborhoods developed a loyal following and then struggled for city-wide acceptance Johnny and The Moondogs were not one of those Rory Storm and the Hurricanes were Liverpool's most famous band with a drummer known as Ringo Star as Jack Randa Club became the vortex of the Late Night band scene.

Alan Williams met the whole spectrum of groups as they walked through the doors and it occurred to him that there was a potential gold mine somewhere in that plethora of what was called pop music and he started a booking business as a sort of clearinghouse for groups. He got them jobs for 10 billion a night. Williams had met a well-known London manager and promoter called Larry Parns. Williams had assured Parns that Liverpool was an untapped cargo for all pop groups. of them tailor-made to go on tour under his name. Within a few weeks, Williams won an audition for a variety of Liverpool's best-known groups to tour with Billy Fury, including Johnny and Theon Dogs.

To audition against the advice of his friends, the band changed their name to the silver

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. Stu had suggested the word Beatles in response to Buddy Holly's group, The Crickets. John, who couldn't resist a pun, suggested the Beatles with an a as a piece of Beat music to which silver was added. give the name a little flash, they gave a nervous but lively performance, but Parns couldn't help but notice that St, the little one with the big bass, Parns wanted the silver Beatles, less St John, he didn't want to hear about this, he which infuriated Paul Williams and he would hire them.

At town halls throughout the city, often in the toughest and toughest parts of town, some of these jobs proved to be more trouble than they were worth and the audience was frequently made up of large gangs of titty boys, the boys of these gangs were bona fide thugs. Not pretenders like the silver Beatles, these teds were armed with chains and knives and famously wore steel-toed boots with which they could stomp their victims into unconsciousness. Often a good fight was the last event on their dance cards and the dirtier the fight, the better the night would be.

In the summer of 1959, the Silver Beatles were ambushed by a gang of Teds in the car park of Litherland Town Hall. The older boys managed to escape, but they grabbed Stew, threw him to the ground, and savagely kicked him in the head until he was almost dead. unconscious, he would have been killed if it had not been for John, who ran back to lift his friend off the ground and drag him to safety that same summer, it seemed that a terrible Calamity had befallen the jakaranda, the Royal Caribbean Band with its 40- The steel drums that had electrified the atmosphere every night had disappeared.

Alan Williams learned that they had left town in search of a better-paying job in Hamburg, West Germany. It seemed that Hamburg's bustling St. ply district, with its hundreds of bars, dance halls and nightclubs, had become a hungry market for foreign entertainment, the club owners paid high salaries and the demand for ax was so great that they were even pleased to book such an esoteric attraction as a West Indian steel band. Williams figured he could combine Liverpool's Overflow groups with the greats. Thirst Hamburg set out for the famous city of decadence himself armed with a tape of Liverpool groups recorded on a tape recorder that John had stolen from the art school for which he subsequently blamed Stu.

It was in a basement. Club on the height of the fry. He called the Kaiser's killer Williams met Bruno Kosmider, a memorable-looking midget bloke; he convinced Bruno to sign what he promised was Liverpool's best music product. Dar and the elders returned to Liverpool amid much local envy. Der and the elders were sent to In Hamburg, during what seemed to be the big moment, when the news returned to Liverpool, a pleased Kosmider wrote to Williams asking for yet another group and this time it was the Silver Beatles. The band that was playing was one of the big Liverpool bands that was uh, Derian the Seniors with Hoe Casey as the lead and he sent me a letter saying look Alan we've got something good here for all the Liverpool bands but if you send that band from homeless The Beatles to hbag, you will go To illuminate everything, for the love of God, don't send them.

The only slight problem with the Silver Beatles going to Hamburg was that they still didn't have a permanent drummer. They had known Peete better for years. George had once introduced him to John and Paul, but he had only recently become a drummer. Pete was 19, a dark, handsome, and eerily calm young man whose mother Mona ran the Casper Club out of desperation rather than desire. They asked Peak to join them. It was at Caspa where they made a new friend who was going to become an integral part of the group. Neil Aspen, a tall young man who lived with the best family as a border, was 18 years old and was training to be an accountant, but as his interest in the bands that They were playing in the Caspa increased his attention to his studies fell behind the following spring Neil was helping the kids load their equipment and driving them to all their jobs in his battered red and white pickup truck with a leaking radiator.

They didn't call him a highway manager until many years later, when the word was invented, but he was much more than that. He became a friend, a help and a protector in his own unique way. By the force of his personality, he affected his course as profoundly as any of the top four in the race for a caution in the The romantic city of Hamburg and his departure from Britain for the first time The boys dropped the silver and became simply in The Beatles for Cynthia Powell The Beatles' trip to Hamburg was anything but a reason to celebrate, she certainly believed that the pleasures of the Reaper bomb would make her seem provincial and inadequate, she was already learning to avoid the Liverpool girls who They were looking for John, but with Hamburg's reputation for laid-back women, she was sure their relationship wouldn't endure separation.

Cynthia tried to make the most of it, making sure they were scheduled. being away for only 6 weeks it turned out they stayed for over 5 months a compulsive scribbler and letter writer John's faults arrived almost daily the envelope was covered in kisses and love verses Postman Postman don't be slow I'm in love with Cynthia, so go, man, come in, there would be 30-page handwritten epic accounts of his adventures, complete with cartoon drawings. The Beatles had left Jacaranda in a beat-up cream and green minibus along with Alan Williams, his wife. his brother-in-law Barry Chang and his West Indian friend Lord Woodbine in the band's suitcases were wearing new suits of black crew-neck sweaters and short Hound stew jackets for which Alan Williams had advanced them £15 each, the trip It was long and the truck broke down.

At a stop at R&M Holland, John stole the harmonica and added it to his performance. The lyrics describing Hamburg made it seem like John wouldn't need any help from his vivid imagination to enhance the strange reality they were touching on not at the Kaiser. killer, but in a dingy little dive called the in club with an elephant-shaped neon sign outside the front door, the wounded little stage usually featured strippers and sex shows and the regulars a cross section of reaper Bond's belly, including gunting. gangsters, drug dealers and transvestites who were not very happy to find a group of strangely dressed English boys on stage instead of naked female mud wrestlers.

The Beatles were expected to perform from 7pm until 2 or 3am, sometimes at night. week, everything else was a big buzz, you know, being right in the middle of the naughtiest city in the world at 17 was kind of exciting and learning, you know, about all those gangsters and the transvestites and the you know. This is how the prostitutes are, the owner of the club, Bruno Kosmider, was forced to give them a place to live andhouse them in the basement of a cinema that he also owned, called Bambi Kino. The boys were given three dirty cubicles at the front of the theater just behind the screen.

The theater alternated adult films with gangster films and it was not unusual for the children to be awakened early in the afternoon by the sounds of feverish panting in the rooms. They were literally holes and it was not unusual for children to find human excrement under a newspaper if one was brave enough to find it alone at the insistence of Alan Williams they were given clean blankets and bedding they were not provided with towels however and the only bath was the theater audience spent 5 months with the The children hardly took more than a sponge bath, their meals consisted of a plate of cornflakes and milk when they got up in the afternoon and an occasional dinner at the sailors' mission, where Williams had taken pity on them and fed them at cut-rate sailor prices on the Indra, the locker room was also the men's room, and the attendant, an elderly woman in ankle-high socks named Rosa, was happy to sell them a prodigious supply of pills.

German-made weight loss products called preludina that he kept in a candy jar, except for Peete Best, who seemed To disassociate himself from all their debauchery, The Beatles quickly discovered that they needed the Pries to keep them going during the long nights of playing non-stop. The Pries became thirsty which in turn made them drink more beer, which was free and plentiful on offer when Kosmider was not looking and it became quite common for patrons to send drinks onto the stage to get them drunk, the audience came to be entertained , so when Kosmider yelled ma sha at them, make sure they did it.

The other thing about Hamburg was that um. It was your first really professional activity because you actually had to attract people. I always think that was one of the biggest things that we played and there was hardly anyone in the club and you would see a couple of young people, like a young couple, they would just look and first look at the price of the beer and say: " I'm leaving now" and they left, so we began to know God. You know beer is too expensive, so when they ducked next time, well, what I say, come on, yeah, you know, really, come on, nervous systems were electrified by the cheapness and the fetamines and their inhibitions were demolished by beer and alcohol they were capable of anything on stage John in particular brought down the house with his speed-induced imitation of cripples and goblins, jumping, crawling and screaming, sometimes mocking the audience by calling them Nazis, the The audience was usually at least as drunk or high as they were, they just laughed, cheered, and got even more rowdy.

John was aggressive, very aggressive and loud on stage. Paul, his personality was that if he hadn't been a rock and roll singer, he would have been a good public relations man. Whenever there was a problem, he was the one who poured water on the problem. Ro rers expected him to smooth everything over and now we come to George. George was the Qui, he was like the baby of the group. he had no control over the band, the band was dominated by John and Paul and George had to accept them. John was so out of control one night that when a customer enthusiastically approached the stage, John kicked him twice in the head and then grabbed a steak. knife off a table and threw it at the man, the Beatles' favorite part of the St.

Paully district was the amazing red light fenced area considering how young John and Stu were they were 20 years old, Paul was 18 and George was only 17 , the Herber Strat was like a sexual Disneyland here at all hours of the day and night loaded street walkers of all sizes, shapes and descriptions sitting in the saloon windows facing the narrow street reading arguing and gossiping with merchants, this is not It means that the boys had to pay a lot for their sex. Often cute young men and Randy would have any number of women available to them for free from the offers to the clients more than once they went weak in the knee with some sweet young woman in a doorway only to discover her the next day sitting in the window of a house in Herber stress screwed blued and tattooed stoned at any time of the day or night The Beatles became a walking laboratory for venial diseases during their short stay in Hamburg Alan Williams became the self-proclaimed little smallpox doctor that the boys They came to him in GRE There is only a small bar where they spent their free hours and asked him to come to the back room for a specific exam.

Williams also taught them a doctor's method of diagnosis by holding their urine up to the light in a beer glass. Hamburg's public health facilities were free and more accommodating and boys were cured, affected, cured and affected at an alarming rate. Kosmider extended the engagement with the Beatles and after sending an exhausted and dissipated Dari and the elders back to Liverpool, he moved the Beatles to his big club, the Kaiser Keller. The Kaiser Keller was enormous compared to the Indra, with an incongruous nautical decoration of portholes and fishing nets. The Kaiser was also much tougher than the Indra and the club had its own highly efficient bouncer squad, this small army frequently called upon for duty in the violent Club.

It was headed by an Xboxer named Horse Farer who had supposedly spent time in jail for killing a Sailer with his fists in a street fight. Fortunately, Faser brought the Liverpool boys to Heart, particularly John, and as employees of Kaiser Kellerer, they were placed under his special protection with Faser acting as Godfather. They felt invulnerable and their provocative behavior increased accordingly one night torn apart by prelis. and beer tried to shoot an English sailor who got drunk in the bar but only had the heart to hit him twice before giving up when Rory Storm and The Hurricanes were also signed to the Kaiser Killer.

A contest ensued to see who could stop an all first in the riding stage. Rory won and passed out with a case of cheap champagne. When Kosmider found out about the contest, he sent the thug contingent to the rudo. After the two bands, the Liverpool groups joined forces and armed with chairs and table legs they managed to leave without a broken bone and that's how I met the Beatles, in the end we both played in the same club in German The Beatles and Rory , so plus one night. We destroyed the stage among ourselves because it was a strong competition, there would be a lot of rivalry.

It would end if they had fewer last s. I'd be sitting there saying, you know, playing like this and that, which is like the slow one. songs all the time for the next day's performance a truce had been called and life went on as usual summer quickly turned to autumn and the boys' engagement was extended once more in Liverpool Cynthia waited patiently for John's letters now They talked about a beautiful girl named Kirchner and her roommate, Claus vman, as the

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slowly unfolded, Astred and Clous seemed to be having a tremendous effect on the boys. Clouse, the Berlin-born son of a doctor, was an art student in Hamburg one night, after an argument with Astred, he ran into the Kaiser's assassin.

He was surprised to find the Beatles in their fun plaid jackets and wavy pador. She was especially captivated by Stu, hiding behind those mysterious dark clip-on glasses and moodily playing his bass. Two nights later Claus asked Astred to come see them and then the next night and the next and soon Astred was hooked on them they were so individual each one of them was a photographer's dream it's very strange and maybe it sounds like a unsentimental but when I saw him for the first time I knew that he was my man, you know that he was and still is the love of my life.

Astred was an exotically pretty girl with a blonde pixie haircut and big dark eyes. When he met the boys, he was a photography assistant and Claus lived in a room on the top floor of his mother's house. Astred was delighted with these peculiar English children and, despite the language barrier, managed to make friends with them. they. The children, in return, were delighted to meet some local people their own age. It wasn't long before The Beatles began wearing leather pants and tunics, some of which Astra designed and made for them. John saw it this way and, since ASD, Cynthia was sure that this would be the one to steal her heart, but just two months after the name first appeared in John's letters, he wrote that Astred had become engaged to St, Even though they barely knew 25 words to say to each other, they pitched in and bought engagement rings.

Stu had intended to live in Germany with her after they married. A big change had occurred in St. Two Astred were now making all of his clothes, including a colorless sports jacket similar to those Pierre Cardan had popularized in Paris, Astred had also convinced Stu to slick his hair forward over his forehead and cut him into bull-shaped bangs, one by one, except for Peak, who soon surpassed the other boys. The track suit and the beetle haircut were born when she was approaching her fifth month in Hamburg. Cynthia wondered if the children would ever return home because of the way it sounded in John's letters, they might have stayed until next year if they hadn't been expelled.

On the police side, trouble began when a new Top 10 club opened on the site of the former Hippa drone club and its owner, Peter Eorn, began driving employees away from the other Reaper clubs. The Kaiser Killer's fed gorilla, Hored Faser, had already defected to some of his best men like Ed Rosa, the bathroom lady who sold the Beatles. The Beatles would also have made the top 10 if Kosmider had not pointed out a clause in their contracts that prohibited them from accepting employment within 30 weeks and 25 miles of a distance. his employment at the Kaiser Keller, in fact, Kosmider made it known that if the boys played at the Top 10 Club, it would not be safe for them to walk within 25 miles of the Kaiser Killer, however, in early December, when their contracts with Kosmider they will end.

The boys moved into accommodation provided by Peter Eorn and were seen on stage at the Top 10 Club. Word quickly leaked to Kosmider. The next day, the boys were dragged out of bed by several very unpleasant police officers from the Reaper pump station they were searching for. because George Harrison kosmider had warned them that George was not yet 18 years old and therefore was prohibited by law from being in any club in Reaper Bom during curfew. In fact, police discovered that none of the gang members had legal permission to work. They ordered him to pack his bags and leave the country within 24 hours.

Stu and Astred drove him to the train station in his car that night in an unusual display of emotion for him. He fought back tears as he hugged them tightly on the platform and then boarded the train with his guitar under his arm and a bag of apples and biscuits that he had prepared for him and he sadly left for Liverpool a few days later. Later, Paul and Pete returned to the Bambino, where they had left some of their few belongings that they hoped Kosm had thrown his things away, but everything was where they left it, behind the movie screen, they weren't smart enough to leave it in peace, an unfortunate prank occurred when leaving the cinema.

Paul unfolded a condom and lit it with a match, the dry curtains hanging from the walls of the theater quickly began to burn and Paul and Pete High carried him out of the theater without stopping to mention that he might get burned. The fire was discovered and put out before it caused much damage. But the suspicious origin was investigated by authorities who found quite incriminating evidence on the ceiling of the room where the fire started, with the name Beatles written in charcoal with a candle flame. The next morning, the police returned this time with fire detectives escorting them.

Peak and Paul were taken to the Reaper Bond police station, where they were held and interrogated for several hours on suspicion of attempting to burn Bambi Kino. Thanks to some undeserved kindness on Koser's part, no charges were filed, but the children were ordered to leave the country. Paul and Pete found themselves on the next flight to England without Peach's drum kit and most of their luggage. Jon and Stu were now the only ones left and there wasn't much reason for Jon to stay in Hamburg. John returned home the cheapest way, by train, defeated. and depressed looking forward to Cynthia a hot bath and even the ant Nimi Stu, who had a bit of tonsillitis and fever, was sent home for ples.

Her airfare was arranged by her concerned fiancé. He was expected to return to Hamburg in a few months to marry her. When I came back from H, when we were deported from Hamburg, first George was deported and then Paul and I were the only ones old enough to stay there and I was working with the house band for about another month after the others had left. gone. this is an old onestory, finally, I was deported too and I came home from Hamburg alone on the train through Holland, it was quite scary and I thought, well, I did it, you know, I got home, I didn't call The other time was for 3 weeks and They were angry with me because I hadn't called them, but I was thinking about things, you know, the five young men who came back to Liverpool that Christmas were so disheartened that they didn't even bother.

They talked for weeks after they returned, Paul took a job on a delivery truck for £7 a week to earn some extra money for Christmas and John stayed in bed all day trying to escape the grim reality of being in mips again. A few nights before Christmas 1960, they set up their instruments at the Caspa and played together for the first time since returning home, the audience at the Caspa was stunned, a remarkable transformation had taken place in Hamburg, the music began and the whole dance floor just moved basically. I went down to the front of the stage and stood there mesmerized, you know?

They were still unorganized and casual on stage, they were no longer the vagabond group that had left Liverpool 5 months earlier, they were now a slick show full of confidence and stage presence in particular, visually they didn't look like any other group. In the city, their clothes were now an inexplicable mix of leather pants, cowboy boots and jean jackets, their hairstyles featured feminine bangs combed over their foreheads, it was Hamburg that had done it, only in Liverpool did we realize the difference and we saw what was happening, what was happening was an instant snowball. popularity as word spread about the new and improved Beatles who returned from Hamburg within a month were recommended for a job at the Cavern Club on M Matthew Street the cavern was exactly what it sounded like, like a slimy underground cavern beneath from a converted warehouse in the downtown shopping center. district, it didn't matter to The Beatles, who weighed 20 pounds a week, every day, they were ecstatic to be there.

A constant lunchtime gig in a packed club was exactly what the boys needed to build up the next thing - they'd soon become the Caverns House band if that were the case. If I hadn't been in Hamburg, there would be no Beatles, the work there was incredibly hard and people tell me: Alan tells us the secret of how to be a beetle. I say go to Germany for 6 months, work seven nights a week, 8 hours a night and then come back and ask me the same question. It became Cynthia Powell's lunchtime routine to leave art school and go to the Cavern Club to hear the Beatles play.

From time to time, one member or another of the children's families would also pass by by then, on the pretext of attending. School was out and music was a full-time occupation. The band had only returned to Liverpool a few months when George turned 18 and they set off for another stint at Reaper. Bond Alan Williams sorted it out with the authorities and Peter Eorn at the top. Club 10 offered them £40 a week, double what they earned at Kaiser Keller. John promised Cynthia it would only be a short trip and eased her pain by inviting her to join him in Hamburg during the Easter holidays from her art school.

I had never been out of Britain before but now I was going to Hamburg with Rome Paul's girlfriend and we were so excited and scared that neither of us could sleep the night before we left on the platform, we looked around, there was no one there and after a while. We saw Juan and Pablo running towards us as they approached, we saw that they looked even worse than us, exhausted and with their eyes drooping, they were full of alcohol and their clothes looked as if they had not been washed in a week. Cynthia found Astrid's relationship with Stu Sutliff quite peculiar, although the rest of the Liverpool contingent did not find him as fascinating as she did.

Stu and Astred were so inseparable that he began to think of them as twins, they had the same haircut, wore the same black leather suits and even ordered the same food in restaurants, it was clear that Stu had no intention of ever leaving. Hamburg without her and his days as a beetle were numbered, it was also a good thing because the closer Stu got to ASD, the more the other kids seemed to dislike him, a huge antipathy had developed between Stu and the others. From the beginning, St had always been friends with John, but now passive tolerance turned to malignant disapproval.

Paul, in particular, found a lot of criticism towards Stew, getting upset with the way he played, dressed, and even said things that made everyone nervous, partly as a team. effect of the constant diet of amphetamines now even John Stu's perpetual champion seemed to be letting off steam over stew with the rest of them one night in the top 10 the boys were roasting stew mercilessly until Paul finally went too far and said something. nasty by astred in front of a full house Stu dropped his base and jumped on a much bigger and stronger Paul Paul easily knocked St to the ground and gave him a good wallup before the others took him out with all this it was decided that Stu He officially left the Beatles at the end of their engagement in the top 10.

However, Stu kindly took it upon himself to do one last dirty deed for the boys, since he would no longer be with them to take the blame. He wrote to Alan Williams in Liverpool. telling him that the Beatles no longer felt he was responsible for his employment in Hamburg as they had met Peter E Horn on his behalf and had acquired the job themselves, so they would withhold 10% of his salary. . The only contract Williams had with him. it was lost in a fire and he was legally powerless to force them to pay. Williams became his long-term detractor.

It was one fall night in 1961 that John came home with Cynthia, terribly excited, our days of fighting were over, he announced. The son of a rich Jewish merchant had stumbled upon the cave and wanted to manage them. He was going to get them a recording contract. He knew Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, and said that the Beatles were going to be bigger than Elvis John. In the way he went overboard on things, this man seemed to consume so much of Jon's thoughts that Cynthia resented the mention of his name for a week, it was all Brian Epstein heard, this Brian Epstein that and the prominently Irish Welsh city of Liverpool, where the Nazis' nighttime bombings hardly seemed to moderate entrenched anti-Semitism.

Not only did Brian Epstein belong to one of the most visible Jewish families in the city, but he also harbored a secret so dark and unheard of that for most of his life there wasn't a single person. Who he could discuss it with was gay, while such things were more common in the world's largest and most sophisticated cities in the grim, working-class northern city of Liverpool, as the eldest son of a devout Jewish family, Brian considered himself a weirdo and ran a small record department one of the divisions of Nim's Enterprises part of the family business Epstein Brian loved music and had already worked part-time in a record store in London the recording industry was experiencing gigantic growth due to the invention of new improved record players and recordings, the sudden craze of beat music had created a large new audience of buyers among teenagers, since promotion and exhibition were his forte and he had an uncanny knack for choosing hit songs, he felt he had found his niche For a time, he invented his own inventory system.

Using ropes and different colored folders to keep the store well stocked and kept immaculate records, he prided himself on having the most extensive stock in the north and slowly but steadily the records department began to diversify to the enormous pleasure of his parents and not a small amount. of pride, the Record division became a substantial part of Nim's income. Not long after, on October 28, 1961, a young man walked into the White Chapel branch of Nims. Brian liked the look of the boy, and instead of letting a salesman help him, he walked over. He himself has a record that I want, he said it's called My Bonnie and it was made in Germany.

You got it? Who is it? Brian asked. You won't have heard of them. It's from a group called The Beatles. A little research by Brian was soon discovered. that it was a single recorded in Hamburg by Tony Sheridan, who had become friends with the Beatles on their second tour with Reaper Bond. Sheridan had a brief burst of popularity in England as a rock star who appeared on the only pop music television show of the time, Oh Boy, in Hamburg. he recorded a single for the poor My Bonnie label, backed by the Saints. The Beatles were asked to play backups as the Beat Brothers and were paid £25 each for the session that dropped.

He entered the club. Who was? They said: Oh, he's this famous record. Producer and musician, his name was Bert Kempfort and his claim to fame was that he had a number one hit in America called Wonderland by Night. It turned out to be some kind of trumpet solo, but he walked into the club and remembers this Buzz. we turned around we have to be good to play very well we can have the opportunity to record which we did I think he came back twice and then he said oh I want you to come to the studio with sherid and a record and we have We are all satisfied with ourselves and then we arrived to the studio and he just wanted us to like the backing.

Sharon Brandan also learned that the older brothers played Just Around the Corner every day at lunchtime at the Cavern Club, as the cavern was only 200 meters away. Nims front door and having never been there, he decided to walk over and take a look himself dressed in a suit and tie, he cautiously descended the 18 greasy stone steps towards the cavernous Club below street level, an incredible scene unfolded before him. he. The three arched brick tunnels that made up the club were an underground pit of writhing teenagers. At least 200 young people were packed into the narrow hallways, dancing, shouting and devouring soup and sandwiches while listening to rock and roll being played on the stage in the central tunnel. there was a raised platform that galvanized him, it was in the most specific way a personification of his secret sexual desires on stage, there were four young men dressed in pants and leather jackets who played rock and roll and joked with each other with macho camaraderie Brian.

He stood in the shadows at the back of the paralyzed club until he finished his 45-minute set and then, in a mixture of pleasure and embarrassment, he listened to the record. Jackie Bob was announced that Brian Epstein, owner of the largest record store in the city, had stopped by for a visit. Brian sheepishly sank further into the Shadows, but managed to muster enough courage to push his way through the noisy crowd. to the bathroom, a small cell behind the stage where he tried to introduce himself to the boys he greeted first. George, who sarcastically asked what brings Mr.

Epstein here, Brian himself didn't know at the record store, all Brian could talk about was the Beatles, the music was the best he had ever heard from any loud group. and crazy to drive and they were so fun to watch, there was an infectiously happy feeling about them. Within a few days he began returning to the cave to see them, sometimes alone, other times with an employee named Alistair Taylor, who was surprised one day to be introduced as Brian's personal assistant. An effort to impress the Beatles seemed to be the only way to get their attention.

After their initial meeting, it became clear that Brian and the Beatles had nothing in common and the boys would only pay him bad attention as the owner of the large Record Shop. , he was 6 years older than the eldest speaker, had a different look and came from opposite ends of the social economic scale, but he could impress them with his position as Epstein Scion with his shiny new Ford Zodiac car and ordering a mental traffic jam . 200 copies of the single maani and Pasting his name on the window of his record store, there was still one unanswered question: what the hell did you want with them in the depths of your soul?

Brian knew the answer he wanted. John Brian's family knew nothing about his new crush. They were on a trip to London when they found him more agitated and excited than they had seen him in years. He sat them down on a sofa in the living room and put a record on the phonograph. He heard a terrible and incomprehensible sound. came the shocking news that Brian wanted to handle this noise a rock group called The Beatles his father was furious with him just when he thought Brian had settled with the St album he had embarked on another harebrained plan that would take him away from Nims Brian then He turned to Rex Mak for legal advice.

He thought that he was already used to Brian's crazy plans and found his proposal to manage the Beatles absurd. What did Brian know about managing a beat group? It was ridiculous, he proclaimed, and the Epstein boyI had no remedy. Brian wasn't desperate, he was obsessed with his part-sexual, part-shman fascination with the Beatles, which had transformed into an almost religious experience for him when Brian went to see Alan Williams to check on them. Williams noticed that Brian not only blushed but also sweated when he spoke. About them he warned Brian that the Beatles were thieves who had scammed him out of $15 a week in commission.

My honest opinion is that this doesn't touch them with a B pole, but Williams' bad words had no effect. Brian arranged his first formal meeting with On December 3, 1961 they were asked to go to Nims White Chapel at 4:30 o00 with Bob Wer as his advisor. Brian had fantasized about the meeting in his head for hours as if it were a well-rehearsed play after his assistant served him coffee and tea. Brian would announce his desire to manage them. Brian was willing to promise them a recording contract with a London record company. I didn't think it would be a very difficult task considering the importance of the large retail record business that NS had with the record labels that I hoped the Beatles would be so impressed that they would agree to sign immediately, but 4:30 came and went and there were no Beatles. , it was Wednesday and they closed early and all the employees went home and finally left Brian alone in the store.

One hour when Brian had decided he was being stood up, John arrived with Bob. They had obviously been through several pubs and they were the best in Happy Peak and George didn't arrive until later and Paul was nowhere to be found. Brian was trying to contain his temper he asked George to call Paul and find out what was going on, it turned out that Paul went home after his gig at the Cavern at lunch time and was still cleaning up Brian blushed, this is embarrassing, he proclaimed angrily. who arrives very late and is very clean, George added that it soon turned out that the late but clean Paul was one of the many impediments to implementing Brian's fantasies.

Paul was from the beginning the most skeptical and questioning of Brian, a situation that only deepened as the years passed. Paul was very competitive by nature and very aware of any Edge John. he might be winning him over in the group, it wasn't hard to see that Brian stuttered when talking to John and this KK Paul, his father, Jim, was equally suspicious of the Jewish boy he wanted, as it turned out, 25% of the boys. The hard earned wages were worse for Aunt Neimi, she had heard all about Mr. Epstein's fancy suits and expensive cars and she didn't care that Brian knew about it either, it's fine with you if this group turns out to be just a flash in the pan. the frying pan if everything will be over in 6 months you won't care but what happens to them Brian shook his head it's okay Mrs.

Smith assured her passionately I promise you that John will never suffer I will always take care of John 6 weeks later at a table at the Caspa Club Brian and the Beatles signed a formal agreement that Brian had written himself; in fact, the contract was not actually valid. Paul and George were under 21 and needed a guardian's signature to make it legal and with all the excitement of signing this strangely matrimonial document, Brian forgot to sign his own name once Brian took the Beetles, all in The store noticed a drastic change in him at night, his elegant suits disappearing into the closet and out came newly purchased black turtleneck sweaters and a black leather jacket that was a knock-off of the boy's clothes, he couldn't have looked more inappropriate. in these outfits, as his elegance and polish showed through the teenage costume for a while, he even tried slicking his hair forward like the Beatles until he realized they were laughing at him behind his back and started picking them up in his car. and to take them to work fascinated by their world on one of those nights he learned where the boys got their seemingly limitless energy their amphetamine habits had not ended in Hamburg and except for Peak, all the boys were ingesting powerful pharmaceutical diet pills that they bought in the black market desperate to be accepted, since one of the boys, Brian, also started taking them within weeks of signing the contract, they began to receive type memos from him about his Stage ACT written in an energetic and businesslike tone, although Understanding that Brian would not have a say over his music, he insisted that they remodel their stage image.

Brian was, after all, the best at Showmanship and the boys were unprofessional and looked what might be entertaining for them. a crowd of hooligans on Matthew Street would surely discourage the large audiences Brian had in mind. To begin with, he insisted that they not eat, drink or smoke on stage, there would be no more horseplay, no affectionate punches on the arm, no inside jokes, no backbiting. In the dialogue from now on they would know exactly what songs they would play and in what order before going on stage. Brian even insisted, much to J's disgust, that they ditch the leather for identical suits, although this was a brilliant stroke on Brian's part in developing a striking visual image. image that would become a trademark for them John hated the idea and tried to convince the group not to do it by telling them that it was wearing thin when we were younger we used to move around and jump around and do all the things they Now we're doing like climbing to the stage with toilet seats and peeing, that's what we do in Hamburg, you know, and smashing things, it wasn't something Pete Towns discovered then, it's something you do when you play six or seven. hours there's nothing else to do, you trash the place, you insult everyone, you know, but as soon as we got it done, the edges were ripped off, you know, Brian put us in suits and all that and we made it very, very big. but they sold out, you know, suits and ties were the antithesis of the Beatles.

Surprisingly, Brian found an ally in Paul. Paul, it turned out, had a good sense of showmanship and understood appearances and public relations. With Paul's support, the group relented and Brian ordered. them gray suits with velvet collars now, as far as he was concerned, The Beatles were all ready to record at the beginning of Brian's explorations to secure them a recording contract. He wrote a letter to a Liverpool Echo late-night record critic called Tony Barrow asking him to mention the Beatles in his column as, according to Brian and Mery Beat Music Paper polls, they were now the most popular group in Liverpool.

Barrow responded by saying that he couldn't mention them because they hadn't recorded in England, however, he did recommend Brian to someone. in the deca artists and repertoire department at Deca, the mention of Nims, the largest record retailer in the north, instantly caught Brian's attention. A young assistant called Mike Smith was sent to Liverpool to hear the group play. Smith was impressed enough with his performance to offer. At an audition at deca's West Hampstead studio, the boys were ecstatic at the news and confident that Fame and Fortune were the easy next step. I was pretty close with Brian because if someone's going to handle me, I want to know them, you know, inside out and the point. when he told me it was a and all that, I presented him with the pills, you know, which gives me a guilt association for his death, but I mean, they're going down that path anyway and, to make him talk, you know, to discover what it is like and him.

I remember him saying never hold it against me. I'm not bad and I didn't do it, but what I hate is the way everyone attacks Allen and Brian was a good guy, but he knew what he knew. he was doing, he robbed us, you know, he took all the money and took care of himself and his family, you know and all that, and it's just a myth. I hate the way they attack Allan and make Brian like an angel just because he's dead. Don't you know he was just a boy on New Year's Day 1962? The Beatles drove 10 hours to London in a fierce snowstorm to audition for Deca records and were rejected in what has been considered one of the biggest mistakes in music history.

After signing The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein, the music industry made getting a record deal their number one priority and worked tirelessly to achieve it. He made several trips to London to meet with record executives, including those from Colombia Pi and Phillips, but they all rejected the group. The visit to the Cave Club by Deca and Aess representative Mike Smith in December 1961 was made as a favor to Epstein, who as manager of Nims was a major client of Deca and Aess. The session was set for January 1, 1962 at 11:00 a.m. m. Brian traveled to London for the audition by train while the Beatles drove with Neil Aspen on a nearly 4 hour trip that ended up taking 10 hours due to a snow storm but they arrived on time even though Smith hadn't been partying too much celebrating the New Year.

The night before, Chagrin Smith further upset the Beatles by deeming their equipment unsuitable and insisting that they use an amplifier provided by Deca. Brian and the Beatles carefully chose 15 songs that they felt best represented their act and showcased their versatility. Brian also asked Deca to record the audition to which Smith agreed not to see any problem although nervous The Beatles were in good spirits and played with energy the selection of three Lenen McCartney Originals showed their confidence and Brian felt comfortable enough with the performance to feel like it would lead to a record deal that he even accepted.

The boys went to a celebratory dinner and were allowed to order wine in the meantime, the same day Deca auditioned. Brian P and the London Trellos Smith consulted with Deca and manager Dick Row and it was finally decided that signing a local act would ensure lower travel costs. I told Mike he would have to decide between them, it was up to him the Beatles or Brian Pool and TR. He said they are both good, but one is a local group and the other comes from Liverpool. We decided it was better. Take the local group as an example, but even after receiving the rejection notice, Brian did not budge, he promised Deca's sales division that he would personally buy 3,000 copies of any single released by the Beatles.

Unfortunately, the news never reached Dick Row. They never told me about that. At that time, the way the economy was in the record business, then if we had been sure of selling 3,000 copies, we would have been forced to record them, no matter what type of group they were, since Brian insisted that the Beatles be They heard better in the cave that Ro arranged to leave. on a night without warning so as not to play the band the night he was there, although the weather was horrible, he found himself trapped in Matthew Street with the rain pouring down, the children jamming the door and the stench of urine sweat and Chlorine floating on the stairs Rosa had a natural impulse and retired to her hotel.

She returned to London without saying a word to anyone, having rejected the Beatles not once but twice. Brian's autobiography. A noisy sale later claimed that Ro fired Brian in a testy meeting in February. with the now famous Proclamation citing that guitar groups are about to disappear, but Roor insisted until the day he died in 1986 that he never said that it is unknown whether Brian was simply spicing up an otherwise boring story for his book, where if Ro was simply trying to distance himself from one of the biggest mistakes in music history, of course, Deca hired Brian P and the Trelos, a guitar group with a style similar to the Beatles.

And even Paul admits that the audition wasn't as good listening to the tapes that I can. I understand why we fail. We weren't that good at Deco's audition, although there were some pretty interesting and original things. John disagreed. He wouldn't have rejected us. I think it sounded good. I think Deca expected us all to go. polished, we were just doing a demo, they should have seen our potential after finally accepting the deca rejection. Brian asked for and received the audition tape, two real ones containing 15 songs, so we proceeded to the multi-storey Ice Shop on Oxford Street and arranged the tapes to be transferred.

The engineer commented while monitoring the recording that the material was not of the all bad offered to play the acetate for Sid Coleman the CEO of a publishing company controlled by Emi whose office was in the building two Beatles Originals hello girl and love of the beloved impressed Coleman so much that he bought the rights to them when he learned that The Beatles did not have a record contract, he called a colleague of Emi's who was looking for new pop singers, George Martin, and a man for the Parone label, which he referred to as On the em ice joke label, because he was known mainly for comedy records, it turned out that George Martin was the only producer in the Emi organization who had not yet rejected the Beatles.

George had done little to no rock and roll when we met him and had never been in a studio, so we learned a lot together. He had great musical knowledge and experience. The next day, a baby-faced Brian arrived at Parone's office in Manchester Square,sweating his last chance. Brian made a bad impression on Martin with his Then, an absurd line about a band in Liverpool that was going to be bigger than Elvis, although the real test was the demo which impressed Martin as either old material or very mediocre songs they had written. themselves, but there was an unusual quality to the sound, a harshness. that I hadn't encountered before there was also the fact that more than one person was singing what I told PR was if you want me to judge them by what you are playing with me I'm sorry I have to turn you down and I was so disappointed I felt very sorry for him, actually because he is a serious young man and you must have liked him, then I liked him and I told him, but I'll tell you what I gave him, a Lifeline, I said if you want to bring.

From Liverpool I will give them an hour in the studio. Well, chances are Martin wouldn't have ventured further with the Beatles if he hadn't been so interested in competing with his counterpart in Colombia nor Cliff Richard's producer willing to accept. a small opportunity without even knowing the Beatles Martin wrote a contract that committed very little to his company the boy signed as soon as he returned from Hamburg on June 4, 1962 even though they had nothing really behind them, they were still quite irreverent even in Those days I loved, you know, I like rebellious people a bit and I like their sense of humour, after all, that was my main asset too and I suppose they quite liked what I've been doing with Peter Sers. and the gons that kind of thing um no, I thought they had tremendous charisma.

I knew that alone would sell them. George Martin's willingness to let the Beatles record their own material and then explore new directions to take their writing and experiment in the studio was crucial to their success; a more rigid by-the-books producer probably wouldn't have offered the same flexibility. The rejection also held true for other groups that may have struggled after the Beetles' success. The DEA signed some of the biggest and most important guitar groups in rock and roll history the Rolling Stones the Moody Blues the zombies John May's Blues Breakers and the little faces among others if the Beatles had signed with Deca they would have had an unfriendly producer and would have recorded inadequate material possibly at the expense of their own compositions recording their first album with George Martin a year later they had a better drummer more experience in the studio another year writing songs and playing and more trips to Hamburg completed they were a different band when Deca the rejected they felt it was the worst that could happen but history shows it was one of their greatest escapades on April 13, 1962.

The Beatles were scheduled to return to Hamburg for an appearance at the Star Club The Reaper Bond, the last and greatest Brian Epstein's nightclub to impress Liverpool fans. They grandly constructed the seven-week season in Germany as a European tour. and in a show of style he paid for the children to go on a plane, his parents continually exasperated by his excess were sure that he would never see the fairback of the promised prophets now they were even less happy to know that Brian would accompany the Beatles to Hamburg, but on April 10, the day of his departure, two telegrams arrived from Astd Cure in Hamburg bringing terrible news on Christmas 1961, while Brian Epstein was still crying.

The Beatles Stu had come from Hamburg with ASD Stu's friends in the cave as Bill Harry. They were shocked by his thinness and translucent paleness. Alan Williams, with his typical frankness, told him that he seemed to be at death's door. Stu admitted to his mother that since he settled in Hamburg in his studio at the Kure house, he had been suffering severe pain. headaches and even occasional fainting. he had fainted once in art school during Eduardo Pelosi's master class the news had already reached Mrs. Sutliff through worried letters from astred to Stu's younger sister Pauline astred feared that he was working too hard for days and Millie Sutliff had described the symptoms, as she understood them, to the dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Liverpool, he told her she had reason to worry.

Stu still refused. Believing that the headaches were a consequence of more than just overwork and her lifestyle as an all-nighter in Hamburg, she agreed, for her mother's sake, to see a specialist in Liverpool. . The specialist immediately sent him for an x-ray, an appointment could not be made for Three weeks later, Stu and ASD had returned to Hamburg from January to April. The only news Mrs. Sutliff received were Ace's photographs, one of which showed a stew as stiff as a piece of wax sitting in a Bentwood rocking chair next to a marble table filled with liquor. bottles, another was a close-up of stew and together, the face next to the stunning dark-eyed girl was tormented and brittle when I looked at her Millie says something told me that my son was dying in February.

Stu collapsed again during an art school class this time. He did not return, Sid's mother forced him to leave her penthouse and be cared for properly by her in a bedroom below. The CER family doctor, suspecting a brain tumor, sent him for x-rays. No tumor was shown. Two other doctors who examined Stefa were equally baffled. I tried everything, one treatment was some kind of special underwater massage, when Stu came home in the afternoon after his massage, he told my mother that he had been looking through an Undertaker's window and had seen a beautiful coffin. white, oh mom, he said, buy it for me.

I would love to be buried in a white coffin in March. The headaches had brought periods of temporary blindness. The pain became so intense at times that Astred and his mother had to hold the stew down to prevent it from being thrown out the window, but other days it could seem quite normal. Distraught, I would come home from work and find him sitting in bed reading, drawing or writing another long letter to John in Liverpool. He was eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Beatles and the arrival of the Beatles. opening of the Star Club on April 13 April 10 Asstred working in his photography studio received a call from his mother to tell him that Stu was much worse and that she was sending him to the hospital it was the day three of The Beatles John The best thing was that Paul and Peak will fly from Manchester Ring Road.

The airport. George had the flu and was due to follow up with Brian a day later at four-thirty. He was in my room at my house in Liverpool. I felt like a strong cold wind was blowing through that house. He lifted me up. and I lay on the bed for 15 or 20 minutes not a muscle in my body was able to move that was the moment I discovered later when Stuart was dying The Beatles were devastated by Stu's death neither George nor Peak could stop crying Paul felt especially bad. Remembering his fights with Stu in the past, he tried to find words of comfort for Mrs.

Sutliff, but unfortunately they didn't come out all that well. My mother died when I was 14 years old. She told him and I had completely forgotten about her within 6 months. We found out about Stu's death, we were going to open the star club host who hired us to open the starup. This was our first time flying and we expected Stefa to meet us at the airport and when we got off. the plane, uh, we saw ASD there, you always hoped Stu was with her, you know, they were never apart or anything like that and, uh, we just turned around and said, hey, you know where Stew is, and she went He turned around and said no.

You don't know, don't hold it in or anything, she just said that Stuart died a couple of days before we got to Hamburg, she upset us so much that she said it was fine, we all had a lot of respect for the guy, regardless of the facts . that she left the band and went back to work in Hamburg and it was probably the first time I saw JN and I think this indicates the total admiration Jon had for Steak as a person and as a friend, he actually physically broke down. and crying in front of someone was a scene that was very disturbing um that's the only way I can say it I mean you can't I don't want to harp on what you know try to describe the scene or you know the sympathy. was happening, but it upset John tremendously and Paul and I were also deeply upset by the tragedy that had happened.

Only John, who had suffered the biggest blow, showed any outward emotion, whatever it was, his dry eyes disconcerted Mrs. Sutliffe, she believed Stu. death left him impassive only in one small detail he surrendered, asked and was given the long woolen scarf that Stu used to wear tied around his Nick in the winters among the cold streets and alleys of Liverpool, it was John who saved me Astred says That after Stu left he convinced me that I couldn't act like I was a widow. She pretended to be heartless, but I knew that what she said came from the heart.

Make up your mind. She told me. You either live or you die. Don't be in the middle, grief over Shak of Stew's death sent him Full Tilt to the neon underworld of reaper Bond, the star. The club was an excellent setting for an emotional person built on the site of a former cinema; It was by far the largest. In the place where they once played, the club alternated music with sex shows and mud wrestlers. Often, up to 18,000 customers would pass through its doors in a single night and from the stage the place looked like a twisted Snak pit.

The Beatles, who were now booked as headliners were joined at the Bild by two other Liverpool groups, the big three and the eyes of King, Taylor and The Dominoes. The three groups decorated their quarters with graffiti of dirty clothes and more objects capable of speaking, all were now equipped with level gas guns and could attack each other. with weapons capable of inflicting at least a third Dee Burns Adrien Barber the guitarist of the great trio was as reckless as John a kind of crazy competition arose between them Barber walked next to the reaper Bond dragged a brush behind him on a dog leash on It was during this trip that Jon's behavior became erratic and he overcame his previous insanity as a result of his grief over Stew's passing.

His bedroom was across the street from the club, next to a hapless Catholic Church, which became the target of countless Sunday morning attacks, still awake from taking Prell the night before, hanging a condom filled with water outside his bedroom window to mock Catholics on their way to mass, where he would build an effigy of Jesus. with an inflated condom as a penis one morning he urinated from the rooftop on the heads of three passing nuns along with the popularity of the Beatles came the girls whom Cynthia called the submissive Dolly Birds when the word was later coined, these girls would be called groupies and their specialty was sexually ensnaring rock musicians at the time, these girls were a totally new phenomenon to Cynthia and she watched with great apprehension as these Dolly Birds became fixtures in the Beatles' daily lives;

They seemed to follow them everywhere, whether lurking outside the changing world. room in the cave or simply passing by one of the children's houses with whom they flirted and fell in love, brought gifts to the children and in every way posed a threat to Cynthia's survival. She had already witnessed firsthand the dangers of the doll. Birds. Dorothy Rome. Paul's girl. For several years she had received her walking papers, she had moved into a one-bed apartment right next to Cynthia's, one night the girls were sitting in bathrobes and curls smoking cigarettes and drinking tea when Paul came knocking on Dorothy's door. , insisted on having a private meeting. he talked to her in her room, they came out a few minutes later with Dot crying and Paul running away.

Paul had told him that with so many girls available to him he no longer wanted to be tied to one partner. Dorothy soon moved away. She left her bsor and disappeared from the scene never to be heard from again, as far as Cynthia knew, the same fate awaited her when the Beatles returned from her first headquarters in Hamburg. Liverpool had a surprisingly furious music scene with over 300 working groups, many of them. Mery beats the big three flamingos Fen The Undertakers The Searchers hoe Casey and the elders King looks Taylor and The Dominoes to name a few could be relied on to draw big crowds The Swinging blue jeans who started life as The Swinging blue jeans skiffle group in 1957, the same year The Quarrymen already had their own blue jeans night at the Cavern when the Beatles began playing there, groups like Jerry and the Pacemakers had fans traveling all over the city to see them.

The Beatles had lost ground locally by They spent a lot of time in Hamburg just as they were starting to take off, but if the Beatles had lost ground in Liverpool, they had been playing almost continuously in the three months since.the concert at Litherland Town Hall and were on their way to establishing themselves as one. of the Liverpool Premier groups before even reaching Matthew Street; However, it was the passionate loyalty they inspired in their Cavern Club fans that helped take them over the next two and a half years to the top because records were so expensive, the only way to build a collection in the late '50s and The early '60s was scavenging junk stores, stealing from parties, and accepting gifts or records you would never have bought.

Paul's cousin Elizabeth gave him Peggy Le's versions of Fever Until There Was You. She had this. Very diverse small collection of records that I was calling material from. I can look back on these albums and see how much I liked Bisam with the coasters. It's a minor song that changes to major and where it changes to major is a great moment. Musically, that major change appealed to me so much, this wide variety in their stage performance also gave the Beatles access to a greater number of venues. Competition between songs was sharp and the Beatles had to work hard to stay ahead.

It was this competition that prompted them to write their own songs since they were the only ones that rival groups would not steal. When we got to the cairn we realized that everyone and their uncle knew the tunes that we knew, so we started moving towards bides and darker tunes like Richie Barrett. another guy of course, you only had to do it once and everyone had them, we took James Rays, if you're going to make a fool of someone, to the Oasis Club Manchester and Freddy and the dreamers had him the next week we were looking for. different because we realized there was competition out there, we decided we couldn't beat any of them, we had to find our own identity, so in the cave, the Beatles started performing a couple of their own songs along with their obscure , they also thought that there was a way in which other groups could not copy them, they did not dare to make one of their original compositions.

The first songs we did were pretty ridiculous, but a couple of girls in the audience really liked them and asked for them like dreamers do. It was one of the first songs I wrote and tried in the cave, we did a week-long arrangement, but some kids liked it because it was unique, none of the other groups did it, it was a bit of a joke daring to try your song. Your own songs, writing them yourself was a little bit tricky and the songs obviously weren't that good, but I felt like we really had to break that barrier because if we never tried our own songs, we'd never have the confidence to continue writing.

John and Paul were in the mood to write songs. Paul would sit with John and they would become engrossed or they would sit in the back of Neil Aspen's truck and huddle together doodling in their old exercise books and maybe one of his books. They would play a few notes on the guitar, dozens of songs would emerge while they were on tour, but none were finished at the time and fragments would always be written and polished later, sometimes John or Paul would wake up in the middle of the night. the last verse had gotten to them, their friends often didn't hear a finished version until later, sometimes much later, maybe when they were in the studio without a song for a new album, then they'd dig up one of the former workbooks and the pages turned as John or Paul said what was up with this and one of them sang a few lines at the time when their compositions weren't filled with iconic Earth-shattering moments, no one realized that in the years to come all and each one of them. of the songs would be deconstructed and analyzed becoming Legends material, sometimes a situation or a name would be the inspiration, but often the song was pure invention, it's Genesis, just an idle notion.

Pure imagination. None of them, including John and Paul, took them seriously, probably because they found it easy, even it took Brian a long time to realize that these doodles were valuable when they started writing Love Me Do, the song started to sound a bit More bluesy, there remained another Lenon McCartney song that became part of his Cavern repertoire. I played a Paul number that Paul and John wrote together, it was written on Fourthly Road but it wasn't recorded until

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when we started it, they were all singles and we were always trying to write singles, that's why you get a lot of these songs from 2 minutes. they all came out with the same length, I'm told it was a failed attempt at a single that then became a passable album filler, there was always an underlying ambition to go in a slightly artistic direction, whereas many of our bandmates didn't. they had that in a Strange way, we were very aware of where we were going, although we had no map, we just knew that these four qualified for something, there was no dead weight on Wednesday, June 6, 1962.

George Martin drove for Abby Road, Tre Shad North London Boulevard, which is the last place one would expect to find the studio of an international record company, shortly afterwards a ramshackle van appeared, heading with much less certainty to the same destination. Neil Aspinal had found his way straight to London, this time it was St. Johnswood that got on his nerves. Neil, all the turrets and bushes of Mansion Flats, drove past the Emi several times not believing that it could be that white house with its porch high like a doctor's office for dentists and only one or two cars parked around the gravel drive on which the Beatles pressed KNE. kneeling behind him were in a state of blurry-eyed excitement induced largely by Brian Epstein's inability to explain precisely what was going to happen today, they believed, like everyone in Liverpool, that the test was simply a preamble to routine for the recording of the release on the basis of Mery Beat said it in an already promised contract, even indicating July as the month of release of the album and inviting readers to suggest possible titles for the number, anyway they were still dazed after Hamburg, the star club, and six weeks of virtually no sleep at Abby Road, which The day something completely unexpected happened, the smart man and the four scruffy-dressed Liverpool boys hit it off at the beginning of their conversation.

George Martin mentioned that he had worked with Peter Sers and Spike Milligan, the founding members of the Goon Show Goon Humor. He is beloved by most Pudan livers in Jon's eyes, especially Martin was instantly elevated to near godhood by his connection to the man who had sung the inkong song. Furthermore, he spoke in a pleasant and simple manner, neither ingratiating nor condescending. They had this wonderful charisma. They made you feel good. being with them and uh, I thought their music was trash. John and Paul and especially George were soon pestering him with questions about the studio and his equipment.

Brian had already sent a carefully typed list of songs that the Beatles could play if a large number of songs were requested. The demo tape he heard there also included the batch of new songs they had written in Hamburg, mostly Around The Battered piano on Jim Hawk Seaman's mission in the United States. springs, despite everything else Martin had in mind, the test he gave them was exhaustive, surrounded by his weak amplifiers. They were in the pit of the huge studio attacking song after song and then waiting in sudden silence for the verdict of the courteous, calm voice over the control intercom.

What they didn't realize was that Martin was testing each of them individually to see which one could. Being the Cliff Richard he still hoped to find, he couldn't decide between Paul, whose voice was more melodious, and John, whose personality had greater strength. He was thinking that, in general, he should make Paul the leader. Martin says, then I realized that if he did it. It would be changing the entire nature of the group. Why not keep them as they were? The material issue remained annoying. Martin still felt that the standards they set were too cheesy and didn't particularly like the songs they had written for themselves.

Listening patiently but disinterestedly to what they clearly expected him to choose as part of his disco, it was a strange little thing, whose limited chords and rhymes were the consequence of having been largely composed around Peach playing the drums. The song was called Love Me Do. and that was the first line. George hated the lyrics Love Love Me. Know? I love you dumb as a nickel greeting card, so we were struggling a little bit with the sound and I told the guys after we did some takes of pretty nondescript songs, I said come to the control room and listen and see what we've been doing and, uh, if there's anything you don't like, tell us you were looking for something original because you didn't want to do one of the major ones that you had been doing as part of your act and Love Me Do was the best song I could find them at that time.

He was well aware that it was not the big hit he was looking for, he was particularly critical of Pete's heavy and uninventive way of playing the drums, the strong drum beat around which many of the songs were built could have worked in the noisy Star Club, but not in a recording studio. At the end of the test, I took Brian aside and told him no. I don't know what you intend to do with the band as such, but this way of playing drums is not at all what I want. If we make a record, I prefer to use my own drummer, which won't make any difference to you because no one will know. who's on the drive anyway Pete packing up his gear with the others didn't know anything about this conversation and the minds of John Paul and George Pete was already doomed as he sat next to them in the van on the way back to Liverpool yeah We still make a record.

As far as George would commit, he liked the Beatles and felt there was definitely something there, at the same time he knew that by signing with such an unconventional and potentially uncommercial group, he might well risk his own small position within Emi, plus That he had a total recording schedule of celebrities such as Bernard Cribbons and a live LP to become London's first satirical nightclub, The Establishment, regardless of that summer, George finally offered the Beatles a formal recording contract to record on the parone label under his direction for the first of many times brian would do so. demonstrate that, for all his panache and urban affectations, he was still just a 27-year-old furniture salesman from a provincial town.

Brian negotiated or, rather, elegantly accepted a poor contract even for an unknown group, according to the likely terms he was obliged to record only four sides. or two double-sided singles in a period of one year, the royalty rate was ridiculous: one penny for each single sold on both sides and the increases would only be a quarter of a penny on each side, an amount that amounted to approximately 1 half a cent, it was only about the lowest possible offer a record company would make them without being accused of Usery considering how many times they had been rejected Brian felt lucky to be able to be on the sweltering and stormy night of June 9, 1962 The Beatles returned to cave with a hero's welcome after landing the audition with George Martin of the Param label, a packed crowd of 900 somehow crammed into the club that night and for the next few days the Beatles played solidly twice a day, the Reserves continued at first mainly on the side of Liverpool and Merys. areas almost every day there were two lunchtime sessions and usually one at a different venue in the evening, when they played 2 hours non-stop at about the same time, Bob Woer, the cave disc jockey who made his rounds around Liverpool After dark, he walked into Danny English's.

Pub to join an ongoing meeting between Brian Paul and George. When a former Confidant had been specially invited to the mysterious conference, it quickly became obvious that Paul and George were urging Brian to get rid of Pete, at best Brian resisted for some time. Against firing Pete at first, he seems to have thought he could appease all parties by keeping Pete on the live dates, but by using a substitute drummer on the record, as George Martin had suggested, Brian had nothing against Pete, in fact, trusted him a lot as the most punctual of the group. and business member Pete's house in West Derby and the small coffee club below continued to be the Beatles' main gathering at base camp.

An additional complication existed in that Neil Aspinal, his indispensable van driver and bodyguard, who was Pete's closest friend there, would also be at the event. how unpleasant it is to be Pete's mother to deal with Mona better, since BrianI already knew that she was a force that one did not provoke lightly, we had a lot of problems with Pete MOA's mother, the best thing was that she constantly called Brown Epstein and told him what are you going to do for Pete. the band and Brown Epstein didn't like that at all Brian called me and said, I'm going to have to let the band go, he said, uh, maybe you'd be interested.

I told him why he said I can't get it. About Mrs. Best, she said that she is, you know, overwhelming, so we had discussed that it would be better to get rid of Mrs. Best by getting rid of Pete. It's a bit like that Agatha Christie book about the murder on the Orange Express, where all these people have different grudges against this person, all the people involved around Pete Best had a reason for wanting Pete Best to leave the band during June and July before news of George Martin arrived in Parone, the plot was simmering against the still unsuspecting Pete.

The Beatles already built by Brian as Parone recording artists were back in their old dance halls, Grafton The Majestic, Birkenhead and the new Brighton Tower. It was after a radio appearance in Manchester on the BBC Northern dance Orchestra show, where he had been literally harassed by girls that someone dropped the The first clue for Pete is that they are thinking of getting rid of you but they don't know. they dare to do it. They are too worried about losing all your fans. The idea amused Pete. He even jokingly mentioned it to Brian, who responded by blushing and mumbling about the ridiculousness.

Anyway, when George Martin wrote to him at the end of July and the parlophone contract finally became a reality, Brian was careful not to let Pete get any better. JN stayed out of the plot with a much more pressing concern in mind that his girlfriend Cynthia had informed him of. that she was going to have a baby John bowed to the inevitable as fatalistically as any worker in the north of the country, in which case he told Cynthia that there was nothing more to do, they would have to get married. August began and Pete still didn't know anything about the contract. with parone, the Beatles en route to the Grafton on West Derby Road were all in Mona Best's eastern sitting room waiting for Pete to come down.

He made it very cheerful, full of the Ford Capri car that he had almost decided to buy. Mona better remember that. Paul in particular showed concern about the price Pete intended to pay for the car, he suddenly became mysterious and told Pete that if you follow my advice you won't buy it, that's all, you'd better save your money on Wednesday 15th August . at lunchtime at the Cavern the following night was the first of four major bookings at the River Park Ballroom in Chester. Pete had decided to go down on his own and took John. They both left the cave and Pete asked John what time he left.

You should pick it up tomorrow night, don't bother. JN muttered and hurried away later home. Pete better get a call from Bryant at his White Chapel office and he said he wanted to see me there tomorrow morning at 11:30. That was nothing. Unusually, he would often ask me things about transportation or reservations that I knew from the time I was handling the dates. Pete's friend Neil Asol took him into town to see Brian the next morning, when the incident happened, you know. It just happened completely out of the blue, yeah, there was no warning, you know, that's what it's about, they just called me into Brian's office and he turned around.

I could tell he was agitated just by the fact that he was, you know, pacing back and forth. and you know, kind of a bit of a nail-biter, so to speak, but after about 3 or 4 minutes he turned around and said Pete, I've got some bad news for you, he said, long story short, you know the boys want you out. and they want Ringle. star at mhm I said it took them two years to find out I'm not a good enough drummer while I was standing there the phone rang on Brian's desk it was Paul asking if they had told me yet, Brian said I can't talk.

Now Pete is here with me in the office. Brian asked me if he would still play in Chester as they wouldn't be able to get a replacement drummer in time. Pete was so stunned by such betrayal that he agreed to continue until he was. replaced when Brian got up to see Pete off, said he'd be happy to form another group around him outside on the sidewalk, told Neil what had just happened, and then left to drown his misery in the grapes at the end of the late. Drunk and bitter about his betrayal, he decided to completely isolate himself from The Beetles and in fact never played with them again.

Pete was so upset that in a pub he gave a step-by-step account to whoever would listen and before long it was common knowledge on the street, the Grap Vine system was so remarkable that there were few secrets in Liverpool and the grapes were hanging from so many musicians it was one one of the last places where anyone with a secret to keep would have chosen to tell the truth. Pete's firing was pretty simple. The Beatles just didn't like him and they told each other and in front of others he wasn't as fast and sharp and funny as they were.

Paul and John said he wasn't one of them. he wasn't an intellectual he tended to be sullen and moody he just wasn't he didn't have the same humor as the other three the same way of life you can't change a personality very calm pet you know I liked him fish but um he was different and that's probably not It worked really well when you're together for a long time and being together, we were driving back from Newcastle and he was going home, but we were still going to end the night somewhere where you know each other. three were very outgoing and I think they needed someone outgoing.

I see the Beatles as essentially pragmatic once they were grounded and centered by Epstein, they had a collective ambition and anything that stood in the way of that ambition would be sacrificed and I'm afraid I think Peter Pete was the best. Pete hated being in Germany moaning all the time and wouldn't go out with them in Liverpool. He used to stay home and make out on the couch with his girlfriend while his mother was out the life and soul of every party from one end of the wall to the other, even after he joined the Beatles while they hung out and hung out.

They calmed down with a few drinks. Pete was going home with his girl after the concert. He wasn't really a carpenter, he's a proven one. that this was more of a problem than a suggested lack of talent in all the years they spent with him, they didn't feel like they knew him. Ringo Star, on the other hand, was laid-back and easy-going, he was fun and outgoing and fit in. The Beatles knew him from Hamburg and had seen him on the scene and had even played drums a couple of times when Pete was often sick. and it didn't appear.

Neil found himself in an unenviable position, divided. Between his loyalty to the best family and the Beetles' complete dependence on him and his truck, largely due to Petza's insistence, Neil kept his job as road manager and general bodyguard for a time, although the Beatles even continued to use Caspa as a meeting place before commitments. They were careful to stay out of Mrs. Best's way, then one day Paul knocked on the door and asked if he could leave his car in the driveway. I managed to keep the peace, but Cathy Pete's girlfriend gave John and Paul a very good chat with Brian.

I tried to diplomatically console Pete by offering to form another group around him, but it was no use. Pete was disgusted with them. It's a perspective. Then you went to talk to any member of the group? John or Paul or not, no, the funny thing about this. It was after I got kicked out, very soon after, that I joined a group called Lee Curtis the Allstars and on two occasions I played on the same bill as them, once at The Cavern in Liverpool and once at the Majestic Ballroom and us. They were playing support for two of them on these occasions and that meant that when we left the stage the Beatles came on stage but nothing was ever mentioned, there were no acknowledgments, no one said I'm sorry Pete or we'll talk to you later about it .

It was business or nothing, yeah, just stony silence, yeah, after working in several commercially successful groups, Pete left the music industry to work as a public servant for 20 years and at the time of Hunter's authorized biography Davy in 1968, was not willing to do so. Speaking of his Beatles Association, years later he claimed in his autobiography that the Beatles themselves certainly never reached out to him and only contributed to the destruction with their easily printed gossip that I had never really been a beetle who didn't smile because he was unsociable. and it definitely wasn't a good mixer; there was not a single friendly word from any of them.

This culminated in an interview by Beal published in Playboy magazine in February 1965 in which John stated that Ringo used to fill in. Sometimes, if our drummer was sick with his periodic illness, Ringo would add that he would take little pills to make himself sick. Pete sued the Beatles for car libel and eventually won an out-of-court settlement for much less than the £18 million he had asked for. Davies recalled that while working with the Beatles on their authorized biography in 1968, when the subject of Pete Best came up, they seemed to pause as if he had never touched their lives, showing little reaction, I suppose he reminded them not only that they had been quite astute in The best handling of Pete's firing was never said to his face, but by the grace of God or Brian Epstein, the circumstances could have been different and it could have ended the way Pete, after battling severe depression, attempted the word, but his mother Mona. and his brother Rory, fortunately, prevented him from doing so.

Eventually, Pete began giving media interviews decades later, writing about his time with the group and serving as technical advisor for the TV movie Birth of The Beatles in 1988, after 20 years of turning everything down. When they asked him to play drums in public, he finally agreed. He appeared at a Beatles convention in Liverpool. He and his brother Rogue performed and then his wife and his mother told him, "You don't know it, but you're going back to show business." He found independent fame and admitted to being a fan of The Beatles' music and owning their records in 1995 with the release of Anthology 1, which featured 10 tracks with him as the drummer, including DECA songs and phone auditions.

Pete received a substantial windfall of between £1 million and £4 million from the sales, although sadly he was not interviewed for the book or the documentaries, according to writer Philip Norman, the first time he learned of the royalties he was due for the use of That clue was a phone call from Paul himself, who had been so keen to get rid of him the first time they spoke since it happened, however Pete claims it was Neil Aspen and not Paul who called him. Paul McCartney claims that he called me, but he didn't. Pete told the Irish Times. The collage of torn photographs on the Anthology One album cover includes an early group photo that featured Pete, but his head was removed, revealing a photo of Ringo's head taken from the Please Please Me cover photo.

John Paul and George later stated that they regretted doing so. way they fired Pete John admitted we were cowards when we fired him, we made Brian do it Paul said I feel sorry for him for what he could have done historically it may seem like we did something nasty to PE and we may have done better , but the thing is, as the story also shows, Ringo was the member of the band, it's just that he didn't come into the movie until that particular scene, you know, it was terrible. What happened? You know, poor Pete, being told, on the verge of the first recording, that you were out.

There have been so many excuses, but we haven't had any real reason why Peter should leave. I say success is difficult. They come and these things happen, but it's just the way it was done that bothered us. In

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he married Kathy, a Woolworth saleswoman whom he met at one of the first Beetle shows. Since then, they have remained married and have two daughters and four grandchildren. For all his struggles and flaws, Pete enjoyed a good life and will always be remembered as an important character in the history of the Beatles. He had very rarely visited the boy who was born Richard Starky on July 7, 1940 at N Madon Street Deep.

In Liverpool Dingle, the sad-eyed boy named Richie after his father regained consciousness in the back of a removal van carrying his mother's few possessions from Madron Street, his education was disrupted from the start. due to recurrent illnesses at the age of six. just one year into primary school he was rushed to the hospital with a burst appendix surgeons operated on him just in time to save his life but he remained in a coma for several weeks his nature against all odds continued cheerful his first absence from school finally ended It lasted for a full year when the skiffle craze began in 1956.

Richie and his friend Eddie Miles decided to form a group. Richie, who had always punched and hit things, took the role of drummerof Eddie Clayton's skiffle group, as they called themselves, and played all over the world. The same Church Hall Network as John Richie's original quman was now using new drums for which his grandfather had lent him a £50 deposit. The kit was his passport around 1959 into Liverpool's most successful supporters group at the time, The Raving Texans, who later became the Hurricanes. The quartet played while Rory Storm sang and occasionally broke the pillars of the ballroom. His bandmates nicknamed him Rings because he played as many as Ringo, since he sounded more like a cowboy and Starky, then it was shortened to star so that his place as a solo drummer could be built on a bill as a featured star.

Until 1961 Ringo belonged to a group much more glamorous and successful than the Beatles. He only met them in Hamburg when Rory Storm came to play the Kaiser Keller. From then on he knew them well. Ringo was older and in awe, always so self-contained and cool with the way he wore leather or fancy suits, rings on every finger, gold chains and flashy cars when no one else had two pieces of brass to rub together. Ringo had money in his pocket and all the right equipment and was certainly a better drummer than Pete. The plot to house Pete dates back to '61, when Ringo joined the Beatles as Wall-E's backing band at the Hamburg train station record booth after Rory Storm's Hamburg fortunes declined. became somewhat variable. several weeks at Dole sitting days off in the Jacaranda Cavern or Murab Beat's office in early '62 Peter Ehorn turned up in Liverpool to recruit musicians for his Top 10 Club when Brian Epstein put the Beatles out of reach and then convinced to Ringo. return to Hamburg with him and join Tony Sheridan's resident band.

Eorn held him in high esteem and offered him a permanent job for 30 billion a week with an apartment included, but Ringo became homesick for Liverpool and it was his mother, John, who finally managed to communicate with him. Ringo, hey, John said that in return he would get £25 a week. Ringo would have to slick his hair forward and shave his beard. Would you join the band? Yeah, when and he said, now he said no, I can't do that because we've got these other four guys here, we've got a job for months and you know I can't just walk away now and have it all be over, so I said, We'll join you guys on Saturday because we used to have Saturday off because that's when they used to change campers, so I gave Rory Thursday, Friday and Saturday to bring someone in to open again on Sunday, which I thought was giving them tons of time. and uh, and that was it, mury beat broke the news in his august 23 issue.

Pete Best had left and Ringo Star had replaced him according to Mury, the change had been mutually and amicably agreed upon, the story went on to announce that George Martin was ready. Finally to go to London and record their first single for Parone, they would fly out with their new drummer for a session on September 4th. The uproar among Pete's fans was on a much larger scale than Bob Woer had predicted. Petitions signed by hundreds of girls went to Murab Be's office protesting the banishment of their idols. A night vigil was kept outside Pete's house in West Derby when Mona collected her morning milk from the front step there were girls sleeping all over the garden there were fights outside the cave when the Beatles came into play when George appeared appeared in the scenario one of his eyes had been blackened Brian after this he refused to go to the cave without Ray McFall the owner providing him with a bodyguard it was very comforting for me to see the support he had um but deep down I knew that he had taken the decision, you know, and regardless of what happened, you know that the door wasn't going to open again when the Beatles entered the cave, they were interrupted by screams of Pete better.

Forever Ringo Never was a big surprise to George Martin when on September 12, 1962, the Beels arrived at the studio with Ringo Star. Not only had Brian not told him that Pete Best had been fired, but Martin had already hired his own drummer to the recording. Respected session drummer Andy White Martin asked to audition for Ringo and after hearing him play he decided to go ahead and use Andy White on drums, much to Ringo's mortification. Ringo was given a tambourine and told when to use it later in the session because George Martin thought he looked so miserable that he allowed Ringo to record some of the drum tracks.

That first day, in any case, only two songs were recorded between the time of his audition and the recording session. George Martin had relented and decided to allow them to record two. of his own songs, as it turned out that Paul McCartney's compositions, the side chosen for the aside was called Love Me Do, the one with Bal's lyrics that Paul had written when he was 16, were greatly enhanced by a catchy riff of harmonica played by John on the harmonica he had stolen in Aram the bide was another simple love song called P.S I Love You with lyrics only a little more sophisticated but which George Martin arranged to include what would become the signature harmonies of the Beatles.

Again The Beatles were very lucky with their Alchemy with George Martin synthesizing real gold, although Martin's role in the production of their records changed over the years, he was always their main conduit, the intermediary who transposed their inarticulate ideas into music. None of the Beatles could read or write music, although Paul would later teach himself. they didn't know or master any instruments except those they already played and knew absolutely nothing about how records were made or the capabilities of the recording studio, even though the recording studio was prehistoric in terms of the capabilities available today. The Beatles' earliest songs were recorded on four-track monoral recorders as opposed to the 16- and 32-track overdubs of later years, in either case Martin would become the interpretive vehicle through which they would present themselves to the world.

When Love Me Do was released on October 4, 1962, Brian expected the record company to offer publicity and support he received none when George Martin first announced the imminent release of a Beatles album at a meeting of EMI executives, the other executives laughed thinking it was a prank perpetrated by Spike Milligan, whom Martin was also producing at the time. In England, only American groups like Bobby V and Dell Shannon were making it big in the United States. The trend called The Twist was sweeping the country and that was what was expected to be big in England. There was general agreement in the music business that guitar groups were done and Love Me.

Do was released and forgotten putting an album on the market without any support is like not feeding a newborn child Brian organized a fierce assault to feed his baby, without blinking he ordered 10,000 copies of love me du4 Ms, a magic number that he thought would would automatically land a spot on the British charts, then he gathered his forces and began a letter-writing campaign to Radio Luxembourg on the BBC. All of the Beatles' relatives and friends were recruited to write letters requesting the new Beatles song. The nm employees wrote as did their families afterwards. At each personal appearance, Beatles fans were urged to write or call radio stations and demand that Love Me Do be played.

Queenie got ready to walk all over Liverpool, from shop to shop, asking if they had Lov Me Do by the Beatles when she and Harry went. She went on vacation to Majorka, she wrote letters to the radio station saying that she was a housewife on vacation who wanted to hear the song when she returned home in the inner room. Brian began organizing and promoting his own concerts, all of which The Beatles quickly headlined. He became one of the busiest concert promoters in the north one day when a friend bumped into Paul McCartney on the street in Liverpool.

Paul confessed that he hadn't eaten anything all day. Someone, Paul joked, had to pay for those 10,000 records Brian later bought. hundreds of requests radio Luxembourg played it, the BBC followed it with one or two plays and then, like a small spark that in a single moment Kindles into flames Love Me Do appeared at number 49 in the new mirror album charts when it rose to the number 21 on Melody In the creators' charts, the entire northern city of Liverpool was talking about the Beatles in mid-December. Love Me Do had managed to make its way to number 17 on the Hit Parade.

They were dazzled. Could there be anything more important than this? Brian asked proudly, love me. It was never big, it could have gotten here after we made it remember that America followed us long after because we were local heroes. Not only did we get to number 40 on the English charts, it didn't do anything, you know, and uh. It was just, but I mean, what was it about the sound that made that not loving me, but anything that grabbed everyone because, uh, we did it, it didn't sound like everyone else, that's all, I mean, we didn't sound like black musicians because we were Not black, etc., etc., and because we, we, were raised with a different type of music and atmosphere, so please please me and me to you, and all those were our chair version.

You know, we were building our own chairs. all you know and they were kind of local chairs, I don't know what the first devices and tricks you used were, the first trick was the harmonica, there were a few, hey baby and there was a Terrible Thing called I remember you in England, but I remember you, your harmonica and I had played the harmonica a lot in my mouth. Oren really was when I was a kid, so we did those numbers and started using it in love, you know? and just for arrangement because we used to make arrangements and we would just use it you and then we would paste it, please, please, and then, uh, then we would paste it from me to you, so you know, it went on and on, it became a trick and then we dropped it, it became embarrassing that in February George Martin took The Beetles back to Emi Studios to record a follow up song, this one was called Please Please, another happy love song that JN had written years before to sit on Tia's pink eye.

Mimi's Bed George Martin was so delighted with the recording session that when he finished he announced over the intercom from Control Booth gentlemen, they have just recorded their first number one hit meanwhile Brian kept them working on the road. Ro this time opening the bill for Helen Shapiro, the teenage singing star now at the descending peak of her popularity, was a second-rate tour, but it took them into the backbone of England, introducing them to the hinterland in an almost Methodically, they passed the rest of the frozen ice piled up in the back of Neil's van. Aspen, the snowy towns and cities melted into a blur of white. the way to tell you Please Please Me On The Record's progress on the charts slowly as it made its way across the country, the song began to climb the charts like a mole burrowing under a tremendous weight.

It appeared on Melody Maker first at an impressive number 47, then the following week at number 39 and then made an impressive jump to number 21. Its fourth week was number nine and finally on March 2, 1963 The Beatles scored their first number one hit. one. Now a recording pattern began to develop. The week Please Please reached number one. The Beatles raced back to Abbey Road studios and into a 153-hour recording session that established the contents of an entire album. 14 songs worth the title. Please, please, take advantage of the success of the single. The album was in record stores in 6 weeks, as was another new-to-me single.

A nice shipment. my love in a letter happy love song had been written on a bus on Helen Shapiro's tour traveling between York and Shrewsbury walking home late at night sitting on the back stairs or locked in the L for some privacy that they seem to be able to have produced these hit songs effortlessly without even touching the accumulation of dozens of songs they had written over the years within 2 weeks of their release. It went to number one on the charts and would stay there for two selling over 500,000 copies before being replaced by another. The Beatles' song, their fourth single, Watershed, on February 22, 1963.

The Beatles made what many believe was their biggest business mistake: they handed over a majority stake in their songwriting to a struggling music publisher with no track record for Nothing decades later, Paul would refer to the arrangement that established Northern Songs as a slave contract in a Sergeant Peppers outtake. George would parody its parameters by singing, It doesn't really matter what chords he plays, since it's just a Northern Song, the bald man with glassesproposed the arrangement, dick James John, would do it. I remember bitterly having divided Brian Epstein into reality by the standards of the time.

Dick James made the Beatles a band with one hit single and no commercial influence, a very good bargain. Remember when Chuck Barry recorded his debut 45 for Chess Records in the mid-1950s. The Chess Brothers forced him to share songwriting credits directly on the label with a popular disc jockey and the owner of the company. Executives at his label bought the publishing rights to little Richards Tutti Frutti for $50. This type of widespread piracy was prevalent in the early Rock era. The ethics of the average music editor would have made a mafia boss cringe, yet Epstein recognized that the right music editor could make all the difference.

The publishers were essentially scammers. They promoted new songs from their performers and, more importantly, they promoted the songs to other musicians in the world. It was before the Beatles, when most artists didn't write their own songs. Love Me Do was published by the in-house editorial department of Ardmore and Beachwood Emis, who did nothing to promote it, as a result it stalled at number 17 in the charts despite Epstein supposedly ordering 10,000. Copies accounted for more than two-thirds of the album's early sales as its own promotion when the much more hopeful Please Please Me was about to be released.

Epstein went in search of the Hustler from him, this is where the old boys network of the London music scene came into play. James was a mildly successful ballroom singer who had been produced by none other than a young George Martin. His 1956 rendition of Robin Hood, the theme to a British television series, reached number 14 in the charts, the highest position any of them had achieved. When James was given a regular spot on Luxembourg radio, which is produced by a man called Philip Jones, when James' music career stalled, he ventured into music publishing. James presented Martin and the Beatles how to do it, which the Beatles despised but recorded on this one anyway.

At that point, Brian Epstein intended to approach Hill and ask the American publisher in charge of the Elvis Presley catalog to replace Ardmore and Beachwood. Martin convinced Epstein to leave with a smaller, hungrier corporation, possibly out of devotion to his friend James. He actually gave Epstein three names, but he made a special mention of James when one of the other candidates arrived 20 minutes late for his meeting with Epstein. Fab's manager just left and arrived early at James' office. James accompanied him until Epstein played him a demo of Please Please Me and told him that if he could help make it a success, he would arrange for it to be published in the eyes of some contemporaries.

James may have been literally hurt at this point. Epstein was reportedly alarmed by the ruin of his office, but right in front of Epstein, James called his former producer Philip. Jones, who had coincidentally taken over one of the UK's biggest pop TV shows, thank your lucky stars, scored please, please, got the Beatles their first appearance on national television and closed the sale which made him rich beyond imagination in 18 months despite his lack of connections After Please Please Me became a hit, James proposed that the Beatles start their own publishing company, although this was not entirely unprecedented, was far from the norm, the idea was that by involving Lenon McCartney and Epstein in Enterprise alongside James, they would gain some control over their creative rights while also earning royalties.

George Martin considered it a very smart deal as his generosity ensured that the Beatles would stay with James for the long term. At first, the contract was signed for 10 years at Epstein's home in Liverpool and I thought John and Paul didn't even read it. British record sales would be split roughly 50-50, similar to Ardmore's contract with James deducting a 10% administration fee from the artist's share for overseas sales. James' management fee was 50%, which was common at the time, but that meant that songwriters Beatles and Epstein would only receive 25% of, say, a major American hit overall. James and his business partner managed to maintain 51% of the company, a position of control that caused the Beatles many problems later.

The Beatles fooled by the development of Northern songs it is difficult to understand how they had only produced two 45's, one of which was barely a hit, and yet they founded their own company, a move that gave them some influence in their creative lives. and which would soon be replicated a thousand times over, Dick James not only helped promote Please Please Me with a Prime TV commercial, but also worked to ensure its songs were covered by everyone from Herb Albert to Patula Clark to Elep Fitgerald, the business that John and Paul aspired to be. after their singing careers ended, after all, no one could have predicted the value or permanence of Beatles Cannon in 1963.

I know this can't last. John told Gloria Steum in 1964. I'm saving money, we have people we trust, our manager. our recording manager, our editor and our accountant, they are all trustworthy people, Paul said in 1965, so we leave it to them and I am not worried that the Beatles have kept 75% of their publications, as is common today , knowing what we now know. They owned and operated their publication entirely and hired cheap scoundrels to do whatever they could, of course, but in February 1963 not even the Beatles knew they had become the Beatles.