Fact #17407
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Mike Smith, an A+R assistant with Decca Records goes to see The Beatles perform at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe. Smith is sufficiently impressed to invite the group for a formal audition in London. Also on the bill is Gerry And The Pacemakers.Full article:
Mike Smith : Somebody had to show some interest in The Beatles, because Brian Epstein's shop, NEMS, was an important account for our sales people. I went to the Cavern and I should have trusted my instincts as I thought they were wonderful on stage. We arranged for them to come to London on New Year's Day, 1962 and in the studio they weren't very good. I think that we got to them too early but it was probably just as well as I couldn't have worked with them the way that George Martin did at EMI. I would have got too involved in their bad parts and not enough in their good.
I did meet them subsequently, and they gave me a two-finger salute, but that's par for the course.
(Source : interview in The Independent, Dec 31, 2011)
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I did meet them subsequently, and they gave me a two-finger salute, but that's par for the course.
(Source : interview in The Independent, Dec 31, 2011)