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Pete Best der Drummer der Beatles wird 83 geboren am 24.November 1941

Beatles erster Konzert Club wird Hotel
Der ehemalige Schlagzeuger der Beatles, Pete Best, hat den Casbah Club, in dem die Band früher spielte, in ein Bed & Breakfast umgewandelt. Das berichtet Sky News.
Bests Mutter Mona eröffnete den Club im Keller des Hauses der Bests, in dem die Beatles einige ihrer ersten Konzerte gaben.
Der heute 82-jährige Best wurde 1962 im Alter von 20 Jahren von Manager Brian Epstein aus der Beatles-Band entlassen, weil er der Meinung war, er sei kein so guter Schlagzeuger wie Ringo Starr, den Epstein dann als Ersatz für Best holte.
Die Beatles wurden daraufhin zu den erfolgreichsten Musikern der Geschichte.
Der „Casbah Club“ war ein exklusiver Treffpunkt für die wachsende Fangemeinde der Beatles in den frühen Tagen der Band. Heute ist das gesamte viktorianische Gebäude, einschließlich des Clubs, eine geschützte historische Stätte. Bests Mutter kaufte das Gebäude und richtete den Keller als privaten Club für ihren Sohn, die Beatles und deren Freunde ein. Der Keller dient als lebendiges Zeugnis der frühen Tage der Beatles, dessen historische Spuren noch immer sichtbar sind.
Die fünf Suiten im ersten Stock sind nach Paul, John, George, Peter und dem Original-Bassisten Stuart Sutcliffe benannt und mit Erinnerungsstücken dekoriert. Die Gäste können nach einer Nacht mit süßen Beatles-Träumen ein echtes englisches Frühstück genießen, aber eine Ringo-Suite gibt es in diesem Haus nicht.
Der Casbah Club, ein exklusiver Treffpunkt der Beatles in ihrer Anfangszeit, wurde unter Denkmalschutz gestellt und bietet den Fans die Möglichkeit, den Keller zu erkunden, der als lebendiges Zeugnis der frühen Tage der Band dient. Besucher des Pete Best's Bed and Breakfast können sogar eine Nacht in der „Peter“-Suite verbringen, zu Ehren des ehemaligen Schlagzeugers, der einst als Teil der Beatles in diesem Club auftrat.
Beatles Geschichte 2024
Alben der Beatles werden 55 und 60 sowie 50 Jahre alt
- Meet the Beatles! (1964)
- The Beatles' Second Album (1964)
- A Hard Day's Night (1964)
- Something New (1964)
- The Beatles' Story (1964)
- Beatles '65 (1964)
- Yellow Submarine
- Beatles For Sale
- A Hard Day's Night
- Abbey Road
- A Collectionn Of Beatles Oldies 1974
Penny Lane Schild nach 47 Jahren zurück gegeben
Ein betrunkener Student klaut das Penny-Lane-Schild. Fast ein halbes Jahrhundert später gibt er es dem Beatles-Museum an den Albert Docks zurück. Die Behörden in Liverpool haben darauf nur eine Antwort.
Der Mann, inzwischen offenbar ausgenüchtert und kein Student mehr, wandte sich ans örtliche Beatles-Museum: Er wolle das Schild zurück nach Liverpool geben, so zitiert ihn der Guardian, wo er damals eine glückliche Studienzeit verbrachte und das Schild offensichtlich hingehöre.
Liverpool hat das Penny-Lane-Schild übrigens zurückgenommen. Der Stadtrat für Verkehr erinnerte noch daran, dass Straßenschildklau ja durchaus eine Straftat sei. Aber man wolle es gut sein lassen. Wörtlich sagte er: Let it be.
Als die Beatles am 27.August 1965 Ihr Idol Elvis trafen
PAUL: We met Elvis Presley at the end of our stay in L.A. We'd tried for years to, but we could never get to him. He was our greatest idol, but the styles were changing in favor of us. He was a pretty powerful image to British people. You'd look at photos of him doing American concerts, and the audience would not even be jumping up and down. We used to be amazed, seeing them sitting in the front row - not even dancing.
JOHN LENNON : When I first heard "Heartbreak Hotel," I could hardly make out what was being said. It was just the experience of hearing it and having my hair stand on end. We'd never heard American voices singing like that. They'd always sung like Sinatra who enunciated well. Suddenly, there's this hillbilly hiccupping with echo and all this bluesy background going on. We didn't know what the hell Presley was singing about or Little Richard or Chuck Berry. It took a long time to work out what was going on. To us, it just sounded like great noise.
PAUL: We tried many times to meet Elvis, Colonel Tom Parker, his manager would just show up with a few souvenirs, and that would have to do us for a while. We didn't feel brushed off we felt we deserved to be brushed off. After all, he was Elvis, and who were we to dare to want to meet him? But we finally received an invitation to go round and see him when he was making a film in Hollywood.
GEORGE HARRISON: Meeting Elvis was one of the high-lights of the tour. It was funny, because by the time we got near his house we'd forgotten where we were going. We were in a Cadillac going round and round along Mulholland, and we'd had a couple of "cups of tea" in the back of the car. It didn't really matter where we were going - it's like the comedian Lord Buckley says, "We go into a native village and take a couple of peyote buds, we might not find out where we is, but we'll sure find out who we is." Anyway, we were just having fun, we were all in hysterics. (We laughed a lot. That's one thing we forgot about for a few years - laughing. When we went through all the lawsuits, it looked as if everything was bleak, but when I think back to before that, I remember we used to laugh all the time.) We pulled up at some big gates and someone said, "Oh yeah, we're going to see Elvis," and we all fell out of the car laughing, trying to pretend we weren't silly, just like a Beatles cartoon.
JOHN : It was very exciting, we were all nervous as hell, and we met him in his big house in L.A. - probably as big as the one we were staying in, but it still felt like "big house, big Elvis." He had lots of guys around him, all these guys that used to live near him (like we did from Liverpool, we always had thousands of Liverpool people around us, so I guess he was the same.) And he had pool tables! Maybe a lot of American houses are like that, but it seemed amazing to us. It was like a nightclub.
RINGO STARR: I was pretty excited. We were lucky because it was the four of us and we had each other to be with. The house was very big. We walked in, and Elvis was sitting down on a settee in front of the TV. He was playing a bass guitar, which even to this day I find very strange. He had all his guys around him, and we said, "Hi, Elvis." He was pretty shy, and we were a little shy, but between the five of us we kept it rolling. I felt I was more thrilled to meet him than he was to meet me.
PAUL: He showed us in. He just looked like Elvis - we were all major fans, so it was hero worship of a high degree. He said, "Hello, lads - do you want a drink?" We sat down and watched telly, and he had the first remote any of us had ever seen. You just aimed it at the telly and - wow! That's Elvis! He was playing Charlie Rich's "Mohair Sam" all evening - he had it on a jukebox.
JOHN: He had his TV going all the time, which is what I do; we always have TV on. We never watch it - it's just there with no sound on, and we listen to records. In front of the TV, he had a massive amplifier with a bass plugged into it, and he was up playing bass all the time with the picture up on the TV. So we just got in there and played with him. We all plugged in whatever was around, and we played and sang. He had a jukebox, like I do, but I think he had all his hits on it. But if I'd made as many as him, maybe I'd have all mine on.
PAUL: That was the greatest. Elvis was into the bass, So there I was, "Well, let me show you a thing or two, El..." Suddenly he was a mate. It was a great conversation piece for me. I could actually talk about the bass, and we sat around and just enjoyed ourselves. He was great. Talkative. Friendly and a little bit shy. But that was his image. We expected that, we hoped for that.
JOHN: At first we couldn't make him out. I asked him if he was preparing new ideas for his next film and he drawled, "Ah sure am. Ah play a country boy with a guitar who meets a few gals along the way, and ah sing a few songs." We all looked at one another. Finally Presley and Colonel Parker laughed and explained that the only time they departed from that formula - for Wild in the Country - they lost money.
PAUL: She came in, and I got this picture of her as a sort of a Barbie doll - with a purple gingham dress and a gingham bow in her very beehive hair, with lots of makeup. We all said hello, and then it was, "Right, lads, hands off - she's going." She didn't stay long. I can't blame him, although I don't think any of us would have made a pass at her. That was definitely not on - Elvis's wife, you know! That was unthinkable - she didn't need to be put away quite so quickly, we thought.
GEORGE: I don't remember even seeing Priscilla. I spent most of the party trying to suss out from the gang if anybody had any reefers. But they were uppers and whiskey people. They weren't really into reefer smoking in the South.
JOHN: It was nice meeting Elvis. He was just Elvis, you know? He seemed normal to us, and we were asking about his making movies and not doing any personal appearances or TV. I think he enjoys making movies so much, We couldn't stand not doing personal appearances, we'd get bored - we get bored quickly. He says he misses it a bit. We never talked about anything else - we just played music. He wasn't bigger than us, but he was "the thing." He just wasn't articulate, that's all.
PAUL: It was one of the great meetings of my life. I think he liked us. I think at that time, he may have felt a little bit threatened, but he didn't say anything. We certainly didn't feel any antagonism. I only met him that once, and then I think the success of our career started to push him out a little, which we were very sad about, because we wanted to coexist with him,
RINGO: I saw him again. I remember one time I got really angry with him because he just wasn't making any music. He'd stopped everything and was just playing football with his guys. So I said, "Why don't you go into a studio and give us some music here? What are you doing?" I can't remember what he said - he probably just walked away and started playing football again.
JOHN: Up until Elvis joined the army, I thought it was beautiful music and Elvis was for me and my generation what the Beatles were to the '60s. But after he went into the army, I think they cut "les bollocks" off. They not only shaved his hair off but I think they shaved between his legs, too. He played some good stuff after the army, but it was never quite the same, It was like something happened to him psychologically. Elvis really died the day he joined the army. That's when they killed him, and the rest was a living death.
Am 12.August 1960-Pete Best wird 1.fester Schlagzeuger der Beatles
Quelle:Wikipedia(German)
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Vor 50 Jahren trennten sich die Beatles
"Paul is quitting the Beatles" - titelte der Daily Mirror.
Fast beiläufig hatte Paul McCartney in einem Interview über sein erstes Soloalbum bekannt gegeben, dass er sich von den Beatles trennen werde. Aus privaten, musikalischen und finanziellen Gründen. Allerdings ließ McCartney offen, ob die Trennung endgültig sei.
John Lennon ist stinksauer. Denn er hatte seine wesentlich frühere Entscheidung, die Beatles zu verlassen, auf Wunsch der anderen geheim gehalten.
6 Juli 1957-Ein Treffen das Musikgeschichte schrieb
Danach bauen sie ihre Instrumente in der Kirche für einen Auftritt auf einem Tanzabend auf.
Ein 15 Jahre alter Freund von Ivan Vaughan, Paul McCartney, war am Nachmittag zu dem Auftritt der Quarry Men gekommen. Paul McCartney war von der Bühnenpräsenz von John Lennon beeindruckt.
Paul wird John, der ein wenig angetrunken ist, von Ivan Vaughan vorgestellt.
Paul schnappt sich eine Gitarre und spielt die damaligen Hits "Twenty Flight Rock" von Eddie Cochran und "Be-Bop-A-Lula" von Gene Vincent, um John Lennon zu beeindrucken.
[es gibt Quellen, die berichten, dass Paul die Lieder "Long Tall Sally" und "Tutti Frutti" gespielt hätte]
Weil er Probleme hat, sich die Texte zu merken, schreibt Paul McCartney John sogar die Liedtexte auf. Aber so richtig Eindruck macht Paul, als er John Lennon und Eric Griffiths zeigt, wie sie ihre Gitarren stimmen können – das hatten die beiden bis dahin von jemandem gegen Bezahlung erledigen lassen.
John Lennon erkennt das Talent von Paul McCartney. Ihm ist klar, dass die Quarry Men von ihm profitieren würden, auch wenn eine Mitgliedschaft von Paul McCartney seine eigene Dominanz in der Band schwächen würde. John bietet Paul an, bei The Quarry Men mitzumachen.
Bob Molyneux nimmt den abendlichen Auftritt von John Lennon und The Quarry Men mit dem Tonbandgerät seines Vaters auf.(Quelle:Flensburger Kalenderblatt)
Happy Birthday Zak zum 60.geboren 13.September 1965
Zak Starkey (* 13. September 1965 in London, England) Ältester Sohn von Ringo Starr- Schlagzeuger der Beatles, und Maureen Cox. D...
