The Beatles (164 page)

Bubbles
: Author interview with Dot Rhone Becker, 11/19/98.

“
It must have been all over my face
”: Ibid.

“
the fantastic scenes outside
”: Best & Doncaster,
Beatle!,
p. 22.

the club fees and five-pence admission
: “Membership was fixed at half a crown a year (12½ pence) plus a shilling (5 pence) admission fee at the door.” Ibid., p. 20.

Despite the constant crush
: Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/4/97.

“
They didn’t have much
”: Mona Best in Pritchard & Lysaght,
The Beatles,
p. 23.

“
an immensely likeable guy
”: Best & Harry,
Best Years,
p. 25.

“
Mo decided to pay [Ken]
”: Ibid.

“
went ballistic
”:
Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/4/97.

“
She kept Ken’s fifteen bob
”: Best & Doncaster,
Beatle!,
p. 22.

“
Right, that’s it, then!
”: Ken Brown in Pritchard & Lysaght,
The Beatles,
p. 23.

“
back into the business
”: Best & Doncaster,
Beatle!,
p. 23.

“
pencils, and later drumsticks
”: Ibid.

“
knock beats out
”: Best & Harry,
Best Years,
p. 24.

“
Stuart was his last hope
”: Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/2/97.

remembered being “fascinated
”: “Cynthia Lennon: In Her Own Words,”
Hello!,
7/7/94.

“
Here with no one watching
”: Ibid.

“
Stuart wore tinted glasses
”: Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/2/97.

“
[H]e had a lot of innovative
”: Rod Murray, 12/84, AGA.

“
a tiddler
”: “Cynthia Lennon: In Her Own Words,”
Hello!,
5/7/94.

“
Stuart was not… outwardly forceful
”: Rod Murray, 12/84, AGA.

“
a tremendous energy and intensity
”:
Hello!,
5/7/94.

Whatever “milk money
”: Bill Harry interview with Pauline Sutcliffe (audio), undated.

“
Stuart never let on
”: Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/2/97.

“
John did all the things
”: Millie Sutcliffe in Pritchard & Lysaght,
The Beatles,
pp. 24–25.

The incipient taste was enshrined
: Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/2/97.

Bratby or… de Stael
: Bill Harry interview with Pauline Sutcliffe (audio), undated.

“
kipping in [Stuart’s] room
”: Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/7/97.

a “monumental painting
”: Rod Murray, 12/84, AGA.

“
real resonance
”: Ibid.

Stuart was ecstatic
: Bill Harry interview with Pauline Sutcliffe (audio), undated.

he’d “failed everything
”: Author interview with Arthur Kelly, 1/10/98.

“
It is very difficult
”: Ibid.

“
some old fellow chundering on
”: Davies,
Beatles,
p. 40.

“
His parents were fairly easygoing
”: Author interview with Arthur Kelly, 1/10/98.

“
singing brilliantly
”: Ibid.

“
We got there in the morning
”: Author interview with Ray Ennis, 10/1/97.

“
old tatty piece of junk
”: Ibid.

“
besotted with each other
”: Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/7/97.

“
Paul was furious
”: Author interview with Dot Rhone Becker, 11/19/98.

Hillary Mansions
: Rod Murray, 12/84, AGA.

“
ridiculously expensive
”: Ibid.

Lucretius’s
On the Nature of the Universe
: Alan Sharpe, AGA (undated).

cemetery in the Anglican cathedral
: Bill Harry interview with Pauline Sutcliffe (audio), undated.

“
Now [that] you’ve got all this money
”: Ibid.

According to one version, his father
: Norman,
Shout!,
p. 64.

In fact, using a bit of creative financing
: Bill Harry interview with Pauline Sutcliffe (audio), undated.

“
What the bloody hell
”: Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/2/97.

“
just thinking about what a good name
”: Davies,
Beatles,
p. 64.

Stuart might have suggested beetles
: Ibid., introduction to second edition.

“
to make it look like beat music
”: Ibid., p. 64.

“
John and Stuart came out
”: Author interview with Paul McCartney, 3/21/97.

The only gig to speak of
: Author interview with Dot Rhone Becker, 11/19/98.

Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent… Liverpool Empire
: Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/4/97; Lewisohn,
Chronicle,
p. 18; author interview with Hal Carter, 8/14/97.

“
They knew that to get any attention
”:
Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/4/97.

The Student Union had a discretionary fund
: Rod Murray, 12/84, AGA.

“
troubled”/“distraction
”: Author interview with Quentin Hughes, 10/3/97.

“
Oh, the skin has come off
”: Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/4/97.

“
Art students were inclined to drop in
”: Author interview with Beryl Williams, 11/2/97.

“
They’d go into a great big huddle
”: Williams, “Liverpool Scene,” p. 69.

“
sort of musical revolution
”: Ibid., p. 42.

“
I began to realise the implications
”: Ibid., p. 44.

“
In most cases, what attracted Larry
”: Author interview with Hal Carter, 8/14/97.

Parnes had a cluster of glittery stars
: Clayson,
Beat Merchants,
p. 40; Lewisohn,
Chronicle,
p. 18.

“
Larry was on tour
”: Author interview with Hal Carter, 8/14/97.

“
immediately fell in love
”: Ibid.

“
high cheekbones and restless eyes
”: Clayson,
Beat Merchants,
p. 41.

“
a very elegant dresser”/“
schmatte
business
”: Author interview with Hal Carter, 8/14/97.

“
fee of about £500
”: Williams, “Liverpool Scene,” p. 45.

The show was scheduled for May 3
: Lewisohn,
Chronicle,
p. 18.

“
the tragic death of Eddie Cochran
”: Williams, “Liverpool Scene,” p. 47.

here
Details of Cochran’s death: Ward,
Rock of Ages,
p. 223.

He flushed with guilt
: “Momentarily, I was stupefied, then selfish thoughts intruded. I’d been robbed of my two top stars.” Williams, “Liverpool Scene,” p. 47.

To fill the gaping hole
: Lewisohn,
Chronicle,
p. 19.

“
Everyone who was anyone
”: Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/7/97.

“
a seminal event
”: Author interview with Adrian Barber, 10/4/97.

“
It was [the type of] voice
”: Ibid., 8/4/97.

“
he had convinced Lennon
”: Ibid., 10/4/97.

he was willing to do almost anything
: Norman,
Shout!,
p. 74.

He also had a day job
: Harry,
Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia,
p. 471.

“
Tommy Moore was a pro
”: Author interview with Adrian Barber, 10/4/97.

“
Cathy’s Clown
”: Norman,
Shout!,
p. 73.

following the Stadium concert
: “After the show, we all retired to the Jacaranda.” Williams, “Liverpool Scene,” p. 57.

if Williams represented these bands
: Ibid., p. 58.

“
But you
must
have a drummer
”: Ibid., p. 61.

Cass was “the prophet
”: Ibid., p. 44.

“
For these two periods
”: Pawlowski,
How They Became,
p. 12.

The audition had been scheduled
: Lewisohn,
Chronicle,
p. 19.

Allan Williams had taken a lease
: Author interview with Beryl Williams, 11/2/97.

He’d decided to rename it
: “I’d seen that smashing film,
The Blue Angel,
and I’d thought, ‘What a marvellous [sic] name.’ ” Williams, “Liverpool Scene,” p. 143.

“
They blew in, rough and tumble
”: Author interview with Howie Casey, 10/27/97.

“
sat stone-faced
”: Ibid.

John Lennon pressed Billy Fury for an autograph
: Pawlowski,
How They Became,
p. 15 (photo).

“
Johnny did and played
”: Author interview with Adrian Barber, 10/4/97.

Only a few pictures… exist
: The entire set, taken by Cheniston Roland, appears in Pawlowski,
How They Became,
pp. 13–22.

“
I thought the boys in front were great
”: Norman,
Shout!,
p. 76.

in “a most off-putting style
”: Williams, “Liverpool Scene,” p. 66.

“
Quite suddenly,” Allan Williams recalled
: Ibid., p. 121.

When Williams brought them the offer
:
Millie Sutcliffe recalled: “[Stuart] was quite upset, really heartbroken, and he said, ‘Mother, I think I’ve let the boys down.’ ” Pritchard & Lysaght,
The Beatles,
p. 31.

“
Forget it, Stu
”: Ibid.

the astounding sum of £90
: Lewisohn,
Chronicle,
p. 19.

George and Tommy took time off
: Compiled from numerous sources, including Norman, Pawlowski, Williams, and Salewicz,
McCartney.

The problem of equipment
: Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/3/97.

Stuart de Stael
: Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
p. 44.

Paul Ramon
: “I thought it sounded really glamorous, sort of Valentinoish.” Davies,
Beatles,
p. 65.

here
Details of the Beatles’ train ride: Author interview with Hal Carter, 8/14/97.

188–89
Johnny Gentle’s background
: “I made my guitar before I went out to sea.” Author interview with John Askew, 8/15/97.

“
The crowd was lovely
”: Ibid.

“
They weren’t the normal bunch of kids
”: Author interview with Hal Carter, 8/14/97.

“
pulled out all the stops
”: Author interview with John Askew, 8/15/97.

“
Don’t worry about us
”: Ibid.

“
You listen to me, mate
”: Ibid.

“
flying crates and beer bottles
”: Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/7/97.

“
Hully Gully
”: “Every time we did ‘Hully Gully’ there would be a fight.” George Harrison in
Anthology,
p. 53.

“
He was injured
”: Bill Harry interview with Pauline Sutcliffe (audio), undated.

defection of Tommy Moore
: “I’d had enough of them all—especially Lennon.” Norman,
Shout!,
p. 78.

New Cabaret Artistes
: Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/4/97.

“
a moonlight flit
”: Author interview with Beryl Williams, 11/2/97.

the “dusky troupe
”: Williams, “Liverpool Scene, p. 82.

“
come to Germany and stay
”: Author interview with Beryl Williams, 11/1/97.

“
Hamburg fascinated me
”: Williams, “Liverpool Scene,” p. 86
.

they had changed the spelling
: Lewisohn,
Chronicle,
p. 28.

“
dreadfully crummy
”: Williams, “Liverpool Scene,” p. 88.

“
the manager of a very famous rock ’n roll group
”: Ibid.

“
the Smoke
”: “We always referred to London as ‘the Smoke.’ ” Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/3/97.

“
He was always thinking on his feet
”: Author interview with Howie Casey, 10/27/97.

“
What a coincidence!
”: Williams, “Liverpool Scene,” p. 90.

“
He was
the star
”: Author interview with Adrian Barber, 10/4/97.

“
He was unpredictable
”: Author interview with Gibson Kemp, 8/12/97.

“
Tony was extremely well endowed
”: Author interview with Adrian Barber, 10/4/97.

“
[Koschmider] made us an offer
”: Author interview with Howie Casey, 10/27/97.

“
When somebody didn’t pay
”: Author interview with Adrian Barber, 10/4/97.

“
Limper was the leader
”: Ibid.

199–200 “
you had to chase and work at British girls
”: Author interview with Ray Ennis, 10/1/97.

“
We were going to
marry
those girls
”: Author interview with Howie Casey, 10/27/97.

“
ruin the scene
”: Ibid.

“
pissing rain
”: Author interview with Johnny Byrne, 10/8/97.

“
like a funeral parlor
”: Ibid.

he offered the gig to Rory Storm
: Ibid.

“
Allan was having plenty
”:
Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/1/97.

“
sort of a crappy group
”: Allan Williams in Pritchard & Lysaght,
The Beatles,
p. 42.

“
reporters from the
Empire News
”: Rod Murray, 8/84, AGA.

Rod Jones
: Ibid.

“
Come on, let’s go have a look
”: Ibid.

“
They got newspapers
”: Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/1/97.

THIS IS THE BEATNIK HORROR
:
Sunday People,
7/3/60.

caught the attention of the… residents association
: Rod Murray, 8/84, AGA.

“
to suck up to the press
”: Author interview with Bill Harry, 8/1/97.

“
I wasn’t altogether happy
”: Williams, “Liverpool Scene,” p. 82.