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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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.
They pulled into Hamburg at dusk on 17 August, the time when the red-light area comes to life … flashing neon lights screamed out the various entertainment on offer, while scantily clad women sat unabashed in shop windows waiting for business opportunities.
and by the middle of August simply the Beatles .
They auditioned and hired drummer Pete Best in mid-August 1960.
By early July, they had refashioned themselves as the Silver Beatles
They used this name until May, when they became the Silver Beetles , before undertaking a brief tour of Scotland as the backing group for pop singer and fellow Liverpudlian Johnny Gentle .