When the group became known as The Beatles there was: -John Lennon -Stuart Sutcliffe -Paul McCartney -George Harrison -Pete Best So what I did is find when each one joined the group 1. John Lennon – 1957 2. Paul McCartney – 1957 3. George Harrison – 1958 4. Stuart Sutcliffe- 1960 5. ***Pete Best***- 1960 6. Ringo …
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Jerry Garcia was immersed in blue grass music at the time, but the Beatles opened his eyes to the allure of rock and roll. All the members of the Dead saw A Hard Day’s Night and were immediately inspired to take action. In one Garcia biography, guitarist Bob …
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I remember thinking they look weird. They were very small people by American standards, and they looked feminine. They didn’t look Italian or Jewish or Greek or black. They didn’t even look like hoodlums. “They looked like what they sounded like. I was watching the music. I was …
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Here’s some audio from the Let It Be tapes of Harrison not being very interested in listening to the first Zeppelin album: Audio of George Harrison Hearing About Led Zeppelin John Lennon on Led Zeppelin Q: “Do you think in terms of feelings? Do you think of music, popular music, in terms of …
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Last Days , Hours and Moments of George Harrison George, 58, had been told on or about November 14 that it was unlikely he could survive another month. After being treated for lung and throat cancer, he had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour. On Saturday, November 17, it …
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NOVEMBER 9, 1961 – Future band manager Brian Epstein saw The Beatles playing live for the first time during a lunchtime session at The Cavern Club in Liverpool. Having seeing their name several times in Mersey Beat magazine, and on posters around Liverpool, Brian Epstein had become curious about The …
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NOVEMBER 6, 1983 – The TV miniseries “Princess Daisy” debuted on ABC, featuring Ringo Starr (as a gay fashion designer in one of his last acting roles) and his wife Barbara Bach. Based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Judith Krantz, “Princess Daisy” tells the story of …
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NOVEMBER 1, 1968 – George Harrison released his first solo album, ‘Wonderwall Music” on the Apple label in the UK (released on December 2nd in the US). The songs which were mostly Harrison instrumentals featured Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and an unaccredited banjo contribution by Peter Tork of The Monkees. …
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The remainder of the Beatles’ tour of America was more of the same. In Washington, to which the Beatles traveled aboard a private railroad car called the “King George,” 2,000 teenage fans mobbed the locked metal gates of Union Station. At their concert in the Coliseum that night the …
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Recently on TV interview in which Ringo was asked about the famous Candlestick Park last ever concert show in 1966 and he said that: “…what was also great, beside we played really well, was that we met Johnny Cash. He came to the gig.” According to Larry Kane, the …
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