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Fact #95276

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Short story:

The Beatles play at The Floral Hall Ballroom, Promenade, Morecambe, Lancashire, UK, supported by Rory Storm And The Hurricanes.

Full article:

Keef Hartley (drummer, Rory Storm And The Hurricanes] : We had a gig in Morecambe and we drove there in a rickety old van which, we discovered on the way, didn't have any lights. The Beatles were topping the bill and because our bassist knows them, he asked Paul, who had turned up with Ringo in his own car, if he would guide us back to Preston afterwards. He did it, at breakneck speed, about 75mph in his Consul Classic, and us following him in a Bedford Dormobile. Forget it. No race.

Anyway, when we eventually got back to Preston and went back to a friend's place, we invited Paul and Ringo in for a fry-up and they said, 'Yeah, fine.' So they came in with the rest of our band and Paul sat down at the piano and told us that The Beatles were going to be recording an album soon. Well, we were all shell-shocked. We knew that they'd just recorded their first single, but an album was something else.

Then Paul asked us if we'd like to hear some of the songs he'd already written for it. He sat there and played these songs that they're going to record soon, one called I Saw Her Standing There and another, I Wanna Be Your Man, though that one isn't quite finished yet.

He played something else, like Little Queenie, with Ringo clowning about doing the drumming parts to it on the chair arms. I couldn't believe it.I was sat there thinking, 'The guy's really a songwriter.' I've never met anyone before who could string more than two words or two chords together. It just seemed at that moment that here was someone who isn't any different from the rest of us, from the same kind of background, who was going to do what we all dream of doing.