Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 29, 1965, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14 Winnipeg free press Friday january 29, 1965 Nasty incidents when Ringo joins group by Brian Epstein excerpted from the new. Book a a earful of noise. Copyright c 1964 by Brian Epstein. Published in can Ada press. Instalment v in Gold Cowboy with a Grey Streak in his hair and a desperado s thin moustache and Beard Ringo Starr was playing the Drums at Butlin s Holiday Camp in Skegness in the sum Mer of 1962 when the first crisis hit the beatles management. Under my when Britain s youth became enslaved by the music and by. The personality of the beatles. The beatles say. It started when they returned from swe Den after a five Day working trip. I believe it started earlier when they were named for the Royal variety show at the Prince of Wales theatre in London. At this time although it is Only a year ago the beatles were still performing in Ball rooms for comparatively Small fees and it was possible to see them and visit their shows without fighting through a George Martin had not been crowd of screaming teen agers too Happy about Pete Best s drumming and the beatles both in Hamburg and at Home had decided his beat was wrong for their music. I was t sure about that and i was not anxious to change the member ship of the beatles at a time when they were developing As personalities. So i tried to talk to Pete about his drumming without hurting his feelings and at the same time i asked the beatles to leave the group As it was. They however had decided that sooner or later they wanted Pete to leave. They thought him too conventional to be a beatle until the Royal show. When this news broke and i Felt it was inevitable that the show business sensation of 1963 should be represented in this show Pressman from liver Pool poured into a Southport ballroom to see the beatles. Dally Stort hours 9 . Open thursday and friday.9 . To 9 . Dial Sunset 3-2112 departments. The alarmed boys themselves alarmed. They were accustomed to press interest but not to a solid Wall of implacable questioning which is what they faced that night. Neil Aspinall recalls one National Newspaperman wedging his foot in the door and shouting j questions in on behalf of a and though he was Friendly with questions m on Denau John he was not liked by doze More him j George and Paul. And one night not to speak for them but in september the three of them boys loyally said that approached me and demanded we want Pete out and Ringo had to go i decided that if the group was to remain Happy Pete Best must go and i Tow that i would have to do it quickly and decisively. I had a sleepless night after mentioning casually the Royal show it would have to be mine. The general trend of the questions was do you think that the beatles from Liber Pool should desert their fans by appearing before the boiled shirts and jewels of the privileged in the beatles View Way Why a cellar Ful of noise the beatle Story to Peter that i would like him to Call into the office the following Day As. There was something i wanted to discuss with him. He arrived of time quiet As Ever. I guess he knew what was coming. I put it to him directly that we would be bringing in a new drummer for and i suggested Many alter a lives that he could be the nucleus of a group which i would form that he could be fitted into one of my existing groups and so on. None of these suggestions was and after two hours of talking around the subject Pete left the office very upset and pessimistic. He failed to turn up for an engagement at the River Park ballroom in Chester and never again played with the beatles. Neil Aspinal the faithful the beatles Tough and Brilliant Road manager guide support arrived later. He was a close Friend of the Best family and he Felt a great division in loyalty but he resolved it in our favor. For this i am profoundly glad because i do not know How we should get the beatles on the Road without Nel. Unpleasant scenes the sacking of Pete left me in an appalling position in liver Pool. Overnight i became the most disliked. Man on the Seething beat scene. True i had the support of the beatles who were the City s Darlings and they were delighted to. Have Ringo. But the fans wanted Pete Best As a beatle and there were several unpleasant scenes. For two nights i dared not go near the Cavern. Gangs prowled Mathew Street above the cellar club and chanting crowds cried Pete forever Ringo and waved ban ners. I could not stay away for too Long so i applied to Ray Mcfall of the Cavern for a bodyguard and he sent along a massive Doorman who hustled me and the beatles As we ran a Gauntlet of fists and jeers. It was not a Happy period and though i dodged All the blows George Harrison got a Black Eye which he took with him to the recording session As a proud Symbol of his support of the new fourth beatle. Ringo settled in marvellously Well and dissipated my Early fears that he was not the right Type. He saved of this Beard and combed his hair Down and became pure beatle. I remember the phone conversation of initiation when John Lennon told him you re in Ringo. But the Beard will have to go. You can. Keep your lovable Man keep his sides he did and there in t a better set of Side whiskers in , nor a More lovable Man. Beatlemania descended on the British october 1963. It happened suddenly and dramatically and we weren t prepared for it. Ever since their beginnings in the Cavern i have known that the beatles would become major stars. But no one was prepared for the extraordinary events of late autumn that year and Ringo said i want to play the Drums before the Queen Mother. Is there anything wrong in the press agreed that there was not but this first hint of widespread interest outside teen age record bars was to me a significant change i attitude. For the first time the beatles were being challenged about their loyalty to the very Young and about their recognition of their lowly beginnings. S Well they played the Royal show and London was brought to a standstill by the screaming youth of the South of England. The Royal family the wealthy and the great were captivated by the naturalness of the four Young and we were All very proud. Marlene Dietrich on the show with them was Marlene Dietrich who herself was won Over by the Back stage aplomb of these entertainers Young enough to be her grand children. She said to me later it was a Joy to be with them. I adore these it was time in autumn for the major tour of one night stands in the big British cities and towns and again there was an interesting development. The queues for tickets spread sometimes Over two nights and three Days made it Clear that the Catle s did t have to sing a note to arouse mass interest. The beatle queue became a feature of British life. With transistors and blankets hot water bottles and with or without their parents Blessing the Young people of provincial England braved every weather Hazard for a Small slip of paper which would permit them for Twenty five minutes to View and hear their idols. Hundreds of thousands were disappointed for several teen agers and spies or teen agers hired by spies were buying up blocks of those slips. In Newcastle and this was typical nearly beatle fans had queued in freezing conditions for tickets. Said the Telegraph it looked More like a death watch than the prelude to a joyous beatle event three ambulances rarely Short of patients some of them school girls dealt with More than a Hundred cases of fainting or exhaustion. Several were treated at Hospital seventy four police were on duty and special Check Points had to be set cult at Hull there were still three thousand in a beatle queue after five thousand tickets had been sold. The beatles had ceased to be purely a pop group and were becoming a cult. The concerts themselves were wild and exciting and successful to an extent i had never thought possible. Every ticket could have been sold twice Over and after the Early scenes of the ticket queues the concerts themselves consolidated the View of every one in show business that the beatles were the biggest thing since Sinatra in the Nineteen forties. 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