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Title: Drummers asked to join The Beatles before they asked Ringo
Post by: BeatlesAtTheirBest on June 12, 2012, 04:01:51 PM

1. Bobby Graham

Graham turned down the offer saying

"I said 'why would want to join a band in Liverpool that nobody's ever heard of'?"

Graham already had a record deal at the time so when he says nobody ever heard of The Beatles, he means nobody outside of Liverpool, NOT in Liverpool itself.


That's one.


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Title: Re: Drummers asked to join The Beatles before they asked Ringo
Post by: BeatlesAtTheirBest on June 12, 2012, 04:03:28 PM

2. Johnny Hutchinson



"Brian asked me to join the Beatles and I said, I wouldn’t join the Beatles for a gold clock. There’s only one group as far as I’m concerned and that’s the Big Three. The Beatles can’t make a better sound than that, and Pete Best is a very good friend of mine. I couldn’t do the dirty on him".


That's two.
Title: Re: Drummers asked to join The Beatles before they asked Ringo
Post by: TomMo on June 14, 2012, 02:42:28 PM
Hutch, I knew about. Graham is new to me. I wonder if the Beatles hesitated to ask Ringo because he was so well-established with the Hurricanes.