After the Beatles completed their second Hamburg residency , they enjoyed increasing popularity in Liverpool with the growing Merseybeat movement. However, they were growing tired of the monotony of numerous appearances at the same clubs night after night. In November 1961, during one of the group’s frequent performances at the…
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Jagger again met Richards on 17 October 1961 at Dartford railway station .
Murry Wilson, who was an occasional songwriter, arranged for the Pendletones to meet his publisher Hite Morgan. He said: “Finally, [Hite] agreed to hear it, and Mrs. Morgan said ‘Drop everything, we’re going to record your song. I think it’s good.’ And she’s the one responsible.” The band recorded a…
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Credited to “Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers”, the single ” My Bonnie “, recorded in June 1961 and released four months later, reached number 32 on the Musikmarkt chart.
By this time the de facto manager of the Beach Boys, Murry landed the group’s first paying gig (for which they earned $300) on New Year’s Eve, 1961, at the Ritchie Valens Memorial Dance in Long Beach . In their early public appearances, the band wore the heavy Pendleton woolen…
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Daltrey spotted Entwistle by chance on the street carrying a bass and recruited him into the Detours. In mid-1961, Entwistle suggested Townshend as a guitarist, Daltrey on rhythm guitar, Entwistle on bass, Harry Wilson on drums, and Colin Dawson on vocals. The band played instrumentals by the Shadows and the…
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During a gig with a stand-in drummer in late April at the Oldfield, the band first met Keith Moon. Moon grew up in Wembley , and had been drumming in bands since 1961. He was performing with a semi-professional band called the Beachcombers, and wanted to play full-time. Moon played…
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The meetings moved to Taylor’s house in late 1961, where Alan Etherington and Bob Beckwith joined the trio; the quintet called themselves the Blues Boys.
In 1961, during their second Hamburg engagement, Kirchherr cut Sutcliffe’s hair in the ” exi ” (existentialist) style, later adopted by the other Beatles.
Sutcliffe decided to leave the band early that year and resume his art studies in Germany.