The Beatles were famously turned down by the Decca record label and instead signed for Parlophone. So what I associate most with The Beatles is the smell of girls’ urine.” The girls were literally pissing themselves with excitement. As Bob Geldof reminisced to Q magazine: “I remember looking down at the cinema floor and seeing these rivulets of piss in the aisles. It took just one hour longer than expected, and they went straight out on tour the next day.īeatles concerts – and even screenings of their films – often smelled of urine. When the band had finished recording “Please Please Me”, Martin said via the studio’s intercom: “Congratulations, gentlemen, you’ve just made your first number one.” The song did go to the top of the BBC, NME, and Melody Maker charts (this is before there was a standardised chart).Īside from the first two singles and their B-sides, the album of the same name was entirely recorded in three three-hour sessions on 11 February 1963. (Starr’s version, recorded a week before, was used on early pressings of the single, however.) Martin thought Starr was rushing into the choruses too quickly. Ringo Starr didn’t play drums on “Love Me Do”, the group’s first hit, and instead tapped a tambourine while session player Andy White stood in. “Well, for a start I don’t like your tie,” was Harrison’s response. Harrison was deported from Germany for being underage.ĭuring a 56-night residency in 1960 at Hamburg’s Kaiserkeller, the band played four sets every day – 7.30–9pm, 9.30–11pm, 11.30pm–1am, and 1.30–2am – seven days a week.Īt their first Parlophone recording session at Abbey Road, on 6 June 1962, producer George Martin gave a long list of things wrong with the band’s performance, before asking to band to provide any of their own criticisms. We’d try to get into the ladies’ first, which was the cleanest of the cinema’s lavatories, but fat old German women would push past us.” Lennon said: “We would go to bed late and be woken up the next day by the sound of the cinema show. When they first arrived in Hamburg in 1960, then still teenagers, The Beatles lived in a cinema. So keen were they to distinguish themselves from The Shadows that The Beatles didn’t use Fender guitars until 1965.ĭuring their lengthy stints of playing to drunk sailors and prostitutes day and night in Hamburg between 19, The Beatles (unknowingly) once ate horse for their Christmas dinner. It was recorded in Hamburg on 22 June 1961 with Pete Best on drums, in the assembly hall of an infants’ school. The first proper recording the band made was “Cry for a Shadow”, a Lennon-Harrison instrumental number in the style of The Shadows. It was Stuart Sutcliffe, John’s art school friend who was drafted in as bass player, who came up with the name “The Beatals”. John Lennon’s pre-Beatles skiffle group, The Quarry Men, made a record in the summer of 1958 that features Paul McCartney and George Harrison and cost 17 and sixpence to make. The 16-year-old Lennon sung lead on the four tracks they recorded, which included Buddy Holly’s “That’ll Be the Day” and the McCartney-Harrison composition “In Spite of All the Danger”.
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