John took this photo. He also got a harmonica around here. The one he used in Love Me Do.
.....Tommy Moore was their drummer until Pete Best replaced him in August 1960. Once Best had joined, the band made its first of four trips to Hamburg, Germany. In December Harrison was deported back to England for being underage and lacking a work permit, but by then their 30-set weeks on the stages of Hamburg beer houses had honed and strengthened their repertoire (mostly Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Carl Perkins, and Buddy Holly covers), and on February 21, 1961, they debuted at the Cavern club on Mathew Street in Liverpool, beginning a string of nearly 300 performances there over the next couple of years.In April 1961 they again went to Hamburg, where Sutcliffe (the first of the Beatles to wear his hair in the long, shaggy style that came to be known as the Beatle haircut) left the group to become a painter, while McCartney switched from rhythm guitar to bass. The Beatles returned to Liverpool as a quartet in July. Sutcliffe died from a brain hemorrhage in Hamburg less than a year later.......
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The Beatles: Their Name Liveth For Evermore
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John didn't take that photo. He was in the Van.
In the Beatles Anthology book, the photographer credit belong to him.:-)
Found this: Others I know agree that Barry Chang took the photo and John was either asleep in the van or just couldn’t be bothered to get out.
There is a fascinating snippet in Philip Norman's famous biography of the Beatles: 'Shout!', concerning a stop on their journey by van from Liverpool to Hamburg in 1960. The-then Fab Five (Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Best and Sutcliffe) travelled with a motley crew consisting of their manager Allan Williams, his Chinese wife Beryl, her brother Billy Chang, Williams's West Indian business partner 'Lord' Woodbine and a German waiter called Herr Steiner! On the way they stopped at Arnhem.
Norman writes: ' The halt is commemorated by a snapshot that Barry Chang , Williams's Chinese brother-in-law, took at the Arnhem Memorial to the dead of World War Two. Paul McCartney, in turned-up lumberjack collar, sits with Pete Best and George Harrison in front of a marble plinth inscribed with the epitaph 'Their Names Liveth For Ever More. John is missing from the group; he refused to get out of the van'. (Page 78 of 1993 Penguin edition).
Has anyone ever seen this photograph of these early battlefield tourists? It is not reproduced in the edition of Norman's book which I have. The 'marble plinth' is clearly a Stone of Remembrance and presumably the group are actually at Arnhem-Oosterbeek Cemetery. Given the location of Arnhem-Oosterbeek it is unlikely that they just drove past it so this would indicate that they made a deliberate diversion to see the cemetery. Did one of the party have a personal connection with the battle or someone buried at the cemetery?
In Philip Norman's 2008 HarperCollins biography, "John Lennon: The Life," he explains on page 195 that their visit to this site was a detour that the Beatles' manager Allan Williams wanted to take.
I have seen this photograph. Allan Williams, says Norman in this book, "insisted on making a patriotic detour to Arenheim (Holland), scene of the Allies' disastrous Operation Market Garden airborne landings in 1944." In the photo are Paul, George, Pete, Stu, Williams, Williams' wife Beryl, and Williams' business partner, Lord Woodbine. Norman says in this book that John was awake, but refused to leave the van.
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