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Originally posted by warrrreagl
The White Album was called "The Beatles," and early pressings of the album had the original titled embossed in the lower right section.
The fifth Beatle was bassist Stu Sutcliffe, who left the group in 1961 to stay in Germany with his girlfriend, Astrid Kirchner. Astrid was the one who took the early classic black and white photos of the Beatles in Germany, and she suggested the Beatle haircut. Stu died not long after leaving the group of a brian hemmorrhage.
Although Pete Best was the drummer when the Beatles recorded back-up for singer Tony Sheridan's "My Bonnie," it happened after Stu's death.
Richard Starkey.
You got me on the last one. I do not recognize any of those names. Part of my own rules for this smackdown challenge state that I CAN NOT look up any of these answers; all the answers must come from my memory. Therefore, without looking them up, I don't know them.
Good questions, all.
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the white album WAS called The Beatles. that is correct. but the "fifth beatle" was never stuart sutcliffe. the "Fifth Beatle" was supposed to be DJ Murray The K. of course he was NOT a member of the beatles.
MAG: How did you get the nickname The Fifth Beatle?
MTK: It was in Washington. I think it was Ringo who did it. One guy asked them some question, and they gave him a real typical Beatlesque kind of answer. They were really putting the press on. One reporter said, "Who's this fellow we see with you all the time?" They answered "Oh, don't you know him? My goodness man. That's the Fifth Beatle." That's where that was picked up. I was tagged with it after that. Then the station heard about it and started billing me on the air as The Fifth Beatle. I really didn't like it very much, but that was it.
http://beatles.ncf.ca/murrayk.html
everything else is actually quite fascinating. as for those other people i mentioned, they were members of The Quarrymen who, believe it or not, are mentioned in
the all music guide.