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The Liverpool music paper Mersey Beat was the first to report on the Mike Smith visit, saying that the producer had made a tape of the performance (this amounted to the first "test"), and added "he is convinced that his label will be able to put the Beatles to good use." [8] About a month later, Decca rejected the Beatles.
Barrow then arranged to get the Beatles an audition with Decca, who rejected them. [9] That led to an informal arrangement whereby Barrow became the Beatles' part-time press-publicity consultant, which involved promoting the launch of the new EMI band from behind a desk at rival London record company Decca.
Decca has the option of signing one group only. The Beatles are rejected, perhaps because they come from Liverpool and the others are Dagenham-based, nearer London. [1] January 5 – The first album on which The Beatles play, My Bonnie, as backing to Tony Sheridan (recorded the previous June in Hamburg and produced by Bert Kaempfert), is ...
Decca rejected the Beatles choosing the Tremeloes, who auditioned the same day as the Beatles. After talks with Epstein, Decca did arrange for Meehan to produce the Beatles at Decca if the Beatles manager agreed to cover the expenses of about £100. On 7 February 1962, Epstein met Meehan, who made condescending comments about the Beatles' audition.
Richard Paul Brutton Rowe (9 June 1921 [1] – 6 June 1986) [2] was a British music executive and record producer. He was head of A&R at Decca Records from the 1950s to the 1970s, and produced many top-selling records during that period. Known as, "the man with the golden ear," Rowe discovered and signed The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Tom ...
Lewis kept Decca ahead of the British competition by launching the long-playing record in Europe in June 1950, following the example of American Columbia, and encouraging the development of stereophony as early as 1954. [3] In the early 1960s, Decca rejected The Beatles at an audition, but did sign The Rolling Stones and other successful groups ...
The Beatles invited Best to join the band on 12 August 1960, on the eve of the group's first Hamburg season of club dates. Ringo Starr eventually replaced Best on 16 August 1962 when the group's manager, Brian Epstein , fired Best at the request of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , and George Harrison following the band's first recording session.
The Beatles arriving for concerts in Madrid, July 1965. From 1961 to 1966, the English rock band the Beatles performed all over the Western world. They began performing live as The Beatles on 15 August 1960 at The Jacaranda in Liverpool and continued in various clubs during their visit to Hamburg, West Germany, until 1962, with a line-up of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart ...