1 difficult Beatles question

[Guilbert]

Gee, thanks for the Beatles quiz.

How about you try to answer this.

When the Beatles toured Denmark, Holland and Far East
Ringo was ill.

What was the name of the drummer who stood in for him ?

Guilbert

[Pervert]

Are you kidding? That conceited little shitebag would never have shut up about it if he'd drummed for The Beatles.

Since he's drummed for virtually everyone, Kenny Jones . . . . or Paul McCartney?

[middle_aged_dutchman]

Jimmie Nicol

[steve56]

the spotnicks drummer really?

[mart]

Not an attempt to answer the Q. Just a personal reminiscence.
Back in those magic times I knew a Liverpudlian who had a copy of "Mersey Beat" with the front page article announcing that the Beatles had a new drummer called Ringo Starr. The article went on to predict he wouldn't be with them very long.

Mart

[middle_aged_dutchman]

It's the same guy. The tour was in 1964 and Jimmie Nicol joined the Spotnicks in 1965.
I found a website with some information about Jimmie Nicol's life after the tour. It does not mention the Spotnicks, but it tells us he went bankrupt and got divorced in 1965 and died in 1988.
Unfortunately the site is in Dutch:


Another Dutch site explicitely tells us he joined the Spotnicks in the year after the Beatles tour, but the compiler does not know about his death:


Have a look at this site too. Look for 'The Spotnicks ? In Tokyo':


And this site:


These sites have less information, but are at least in English.

[steve56]

yes i had 2 good lps,the best of the spotnicks/the spotnicks in london picked the 2nd 1 up for only a tenner back in 89.

[KayJay]

Sutcliffe played bass not drums. After he stayed in Germany, McCartney moved from guitar onto bass.

[Guilbert]

>Sutcliffe played bass not drums

It is debatable that he could actually play the bass.

He was John's best mate and John wanted him in the band, but
he was not really a musician (actually an artist) and the others
had to cover for him.

When he met Astrid when the Beatles were in Germany in about
61/62 he left the band and stayed with her.

She was a photographer who first got them to style their hair in
the Beatles mop tops, and took a moody black and white picture
of them that the cover of the second LP 'With the Beatles' was
heavily based on.

Stuart died soon after of a brain hemmorage.

Guilbert