#tommy moore

[irisasis]

The Silver Beatles audition for backing band for Billy Fury's upcoming tour (1960) Photographer: Cheniston Roland

[jamesgreycaster]

Impressionist HECKLES James Acaster with an Impression of JAMES ACASTER ...

Impressionist Tommy Moore tells the story of heckling James Acaster with an impression of himself.

[andreirublev1966]

Nil sa saol seo ach ceo / There is nothing in this life but mist

The Secret of Kells (2009) dir. Tommy Moore and Nora Twomey

[ljblueteak]

Allan Williams’s The Man Who Gave the Beatles Away (published in ‘75 and blurbed by John!) is full of stories I hadn’t heard before. And while Williams stories should be taken with a grain of salt, it struck me that one of the threads he wove through the book included a line about Tommy Moore being “the best drummer the Beatles ever had,” and he seems to have gotten that from a conversation he had with George in front of Ringo in the ‘70s:

“The Beatles were teenagers when Tommy came into their lives. Tommy was twenty-five, so he must have seemed like an old man to them. But he was brilliant. (The other day George Harrison said in front of me and Ringo, who obviously didn’t like it, ‘Tommy Moore was the best fucking drummer we ever had at any time.’ He was looking straight at the embarrassed Ringo when he said it.)” (p. 28)

Then Williams refers to Tommy Moore as “the best drummer” at several other points: “Quite understandably, Tommy, the best drummer the Beatles ever had, doesn’t have many good words for his fellow Beatle, John Lennon. ‘He could be a bloody nasty guy’” (53).

He then says it again on page 73 when describing a “recent” talk with Tommy about the mystery of what had happened to Tommy’s expensive drum kit: “Tommy Moore, the best drummer the Beatles ever had, looked thoughtful.”

Williams also includes George pushing for Ringo over Peter Best, describing this conversation where George, John, Paul, and Brian were present:

“George said to me very seriously, ‘Allan, just tell me. Who do you think is the best drummer--Pete Best or Ringo Starr?’

 I didn’t know why George was looking for reassurance from me. There was never any doubt about the respective merits of the two drummers. I said quickly, ‘Ringo Starr every time. He’s damned good and everyone knows it.’

George turned to Brian smiling. ‘There, you see, Brian? What did I tell you? Ringo Starr’” (215).

He’s not implying that George wasn’t instrumental in pushing for Ringo over Pete or suggesting that George didn’t think Ringo was amazing....and yet he includes this story of George saying Tommy was the best in front of an apparently embarrassed Ringo and then takes that line and threads it through the book...why?

He doesn’t seem to have an ax to grind with George or Ringo. In fact, in the last section of the last chapter of the book (before a two page conclusion), he tells the story about how George had recently given him 16 uncut rubies at the Apple offices because he couldn’t cut Williams a check when Williams tried to sell them the Star Club tapes (I think he tried to sell the Beatles the tapes in ‘73?):

“George flicked back the long hair from his depraved-Christ features and said ‘Here you are, Allan, hold out your fucking hands.’....Well, I wouldn’t know rubies from rock cakes. But that’s what they were....I gave them to my wife Beryl as a birthday present. So I didn’t go back to Liverpool exactly empty-handed. That was a nice thing for George to do.

George also have me a note for Beryl, whom he knows well, of course. It read ‘Dear Beryl, Happy birthday--(give Allan a kick)--God bless. George H and Ringo S.’ 

When I staggered out of Apple, feeling little pain, George was telling one of the staff, ‘We should have recorded this chat with Allan Williams tonight. It’s ages since anyone dared to talk to us like that, I think it’s done us a lot of good. Two years ago we would no doubt have had him thrown out’” (235).

And then he concludes the chapter by saying that he’s always been one to tell it like it is “More so than even these days. It sometimes get me in no end of trouble.” 

So maybe he included what George said to Ringo to “prove” that he’s giving a warts and all portrait, even as he ends on George being really nice to him?

[pierppasolini]

Boys in the Sand (1971) // dir. Wakefield Poole

[thedissenters]

Autographs of Johnny Gentle & The Beatals (Stuart de Staël, Johnny Lennon, Carl Harrison, Paul Ramon & Thomas Moore) | 1960

[thedissenters]

The Silver Beetles at an audition in search of a backing band for the upcoming Billy Fury tour at the Wyvern Social Club in Liverpool, England | 10 May 1960 © Cheniston Roland

[+] Billy Fury signs an autograph for John Lennon

[welovethebeatlesforever]

Os Beatles usaram dois bateristas diferentes em uma única audição!

Os Beatles usaram dois bateristas diferentes em uma única audição!

O fato Aconteceu em 10 de maio de 1960… Billy Fury e Larry Parnes

Em 10 de maio de1960 Os Beatles (que ainda eram conhecidos como The Silver Beatles), foram convidados para uma audição no Blue Angel Club em Liverpool.

O clube pertencia a Allan Williams, que foi o primeiro empresário dos Beatles.

Larry Parnes, um empresário do rock, chegou de Londres para a Londres para a audição…

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