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Carlos BorgesThis Beatle Lives In Poverty
Worse than wanting to be a Beatle in your life, is once being one and then having no chance to continue being one. This is the saying of a broken, weak man and not well-dressed from Liverpool, Tommy Moore. He is 38 years old and he works in a bottle factory carrying bottles. He lives regretting the big mistake he made ten years ago. In 1960, Tommy was the drummer for three boys called John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. The band didn’t even have a name and they were playing in a night club called Grosvenor Ballroom, in Wallasey, for $20 per night. Tommy felt it was just a part-time job and he decided to find a more “secure” job. He started to carry the carts with the bottles at the factory and today he still regrets that decision.
“I remember that I went to work for The Beatles through an advertisement I saw in a newspaper where Paul and George were looking for a drummer. I joined the group but it was a tough living in the beginning. We did get an invitation for a tour in Scotland, a very tiring one, but we only received $25 for that. I needed something more secure. I abandoned the hobby of playing drums. The three boys later came to look for me. They already were called the Beatles and they showed up in a white Jaguar. I played for them for two more nights. But still I couldn’t see any future in that and I decided to quit once for all.”
Tommy Moore, in the words of the manager Alan Williams, who was working with The Beatles at that time, said that “Tommy was a good drummer but maybe a little too old for the band. He was ten years older and besides he was always unsatisfied with the business. He always considered it as a side-job. Now Tommy lives in a small rented apartment on Vronhill Street, Liverpool. He works 10 hours a day for a small wage and he wishes to return to “show business” and start all over again from the scratch. While John Lennon drives his well-equipped luxury Mercedes 600, Tommy carries his cart full of bottles, whistling to “Get Back” and other hits by his old friends, and that the only memory they have of him is that he was the only one that never believed in them.
Tommy Moore, married with two children, has memories of the times he played drums for The Beatles (on the left, right after being replaced by Pete Best in the band). Now, the best he can do is to play drums on a biscuit box (bottom).