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Title: Name two...
Post by: Nada Surf on January 27, 2012, 05:56:17 AM: Name two people who turned down being Beatles.
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Post by: Hello Goodbye on January 27, 2012, 06:02:37 AM: Bobby Graham and Mike Smith
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Post by: Nada Surf on January 27, 2012, 07:04:47 AM: Is Graham the drummer who supposedly approached by Epstein to take over for Best? I don't count him because I have only seen that written coming out of his camp...I doubt he was offered that job. It wouldn't have mattered anyway, because the Beatles themselves were going to choose Ringo..
I was wondering what others thought of him here.
I'll have to look up Mike Smith..
The two I'm looking for are two others.
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Post by: Nada Surf on January 27, 2012, 07:08:47 AM: Smith turned the Beatles down as a producer.
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Post by: tkitna on January 27, 2012, 07:17:43 AM: Dick Rowe for sure and i'd have to think about the other for awhile.
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Post by: BeatlesAtTheirBest on January 27, 2012, 01:59:37 PM: Tony Sheridan

Chas Newby
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Post by: Nada Surf on February 02, 2012, 02:05:06 AM: Newby is correct!
I'm quite sure Sheridan was never offered.
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Post by: BeatlesAtTheirBest on February 02, 2012, 05:08:12 PM: Quote from: Nada Surf on February 02, 2012, 02:05:06 AM
Newby is correct!
I'm quite sure Sheridan was never offered.

He was. He has said it & members of The Beatles have said it as well.
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Post by: Nada Surf on February 02, 2012, 09:44:34 PM: ...I highly doubt Sheridan was offered..you'd have to show me that somewhere, Best...I haven't read it anywhere.
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Post by: Bobber on February 03, 2012, 09:27:11 AM: Quote from: Nada Surf on February 02, 2012, 09:44:34 PM
...I highly doubt Sheridan was offered..you'd have to show me that somewhere, Best...I haven't read it anywhere.

I think it was considered, but not offered.

Stuart Sutcliffe said no to being a Beatle. So did Tommy Moore and Norman Chapman. Johnny Hutchinson was offered to be the drummer before they asked Ringo.
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Post by: Nada Surf on February 03, 2012, 04:44:24 PM: Quote from: Bobber on February 03, 2012, 09:27:11 AM
I think it was considered, but not offered.

Stuart Sutcliffe said no to being a Beatle. So did Tommy Moore and Norman Chapman. Johnny Hutchinson was offered to be the drummer before they asked Ringo.
I love these!
Bobber got the other one I was thinking and that's Sutcliffe, who actually quit the Beatles...Moore quit the SILVER Beatles...Chapman didn't quit them, he was drafted into the army...I still don't think Sheridan was considered and I'm quite sure he wasn't asked (could you imagine him?)...Hutchinson hated the Beatles so I doubt the others would have wanted him...from what I could tell, the Beatles ONLY wanted Ringo.
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Post by: Bobber on February 03, 2012, 09:18:59 PM: The way Newby and Chapman quit, was quite similar. But whatever, I couldn't care less.
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Post by: Nada Surf on February 04, 2012, 04:09:32 AM: Newby's and Chapman's quitting weren't alike in the least and Chapman didn't quit.
Chapman was going to be Ringo Starr until the British army came calling him as one of the very last draftees into their army...
Newby was offered Sutcliffe's job by John Lennon for the second Hamburg tour but he opted to remain in school.
The Beatles easily could have become Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Newby and Chapman for the remainder of their years.