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Randolph Peter Best (né Scanland; born 24 November 1941) is an English musician who was the drummer for the Beatles from 1960 to 1962. He was dismissed shortly before the band achieved worldwide fame and is one of several people referred to as a fifth Beatle.
Moore continued to work in Liverpool and died of a brain haemorrhage on 29 September 1981, seventeen days after fifty years old. [2] The death record for Thomas Henry Moore in the September quarter of 1981 in Liverpool states that he was born in 1931 [1] rather than 1924 as sometimes stated; this made him 28 when he played with the Beatles, rather than 36.
Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe (23 June 1940 – 10 April 1962) was a British painter and musician from Edinburgh, Scotland, best known as the original bass guitarist of the Beatles. Sutcliffe left the band to pursue his career as a painter, having previously attended the Liverpool College of Art .
When the Beatles were awarded their MBEs in 1965, Harrison said that a fifth medal should be given to Epstein since "MBE really stands for 'Mr Brian Epstein ' ". [11] McCartney summarised the importance of Epstein to the Beatles when he was interviewed in 1997 for a BBC documentary about Epstein. He stated: "If anyone was the fifth Beatle, it ...
Chas Newby, an English rock bassist and brief member of the Beatles in the early 1960s, died this week at 81.. Friends and members of the Liverpool rock scene confirmed Newby's death on Tuesday ...
Although The Beatles publicly disbanded in 1970, it wasn’t the first time the band had dealt with a split. They broke up a total of three times, with the first coming in 1968 when Starr walked ...
James George Nicol (born 3 August 1939) is an English drummer and business entrepreneur. He is best known for sitting in for Ringo Starr in the Beatles for eight concerts of the Beatles' 1964 world tour during the height of Beatlemania, elevating him from relative obscurity to worldwide fame and then back again in the space of a fortnight. [3]
Monument at the crash site of the airplane carrying Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens; "The Day the Music Died". The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died. The list ...