On 7 April, they visited the Ealing Jazz Club, where they met the members of Blues Incorporated, who included slide guitarist Brian Jones , keyboardist Ian Stewart , and drummer Charlie Watts . After a meeting with Korner, Jagger and Richards started jamming with the group.
Throughout early and mid-1962, to secure a UK record contract, Epstein sought to free the Beatles from their contractual obligations to Polydor and Bert Kaempfert Productions. He eventually negotiated a one-month early release in exchange for one last recording session in Hamburg backing Tony Sheridan. On their return to Germany…
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In March 1962, the Blues Boys read about the Ealing Jazz Club in the newspaper Jazz News , which mentioned Alexis Korner ‘s rhythm and blues band, Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated .
After a New Year’s Day audition, Decca Records rejected the band , saying, “Guitar groups are on the way out, Mr. Epstein.”
Epstein courted the band over the next couple of months, and they appointed him as their manager in January 1962.
Richard Wright , a fellow architecture student, joined later that year, and the group became a sextet, Sigma 6.
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 .
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.
In 1961, during their second Hamburg engagement, Kirchherr cut Sutcliffe’s hair in the ” exi ” (existentialist) style, later adopted by the other Beatles.