ENCYCLO(BEATLE)PEDIA!
BY HUNTER DAVIS
Can you answer these 13 questions?
1. Which Beatle was born during a heavy air-raid at seven in the morning at Oxford Street Maternity Hospital, Liverpool?
2. Which Beatle earned 50s. a week as a British Railways messenger boy and then worked as a barman on the Liverpool-North Wales boats?
3. What did the Beatles record as a follow-up to "Love Me Do”?
4. What was the actual date Paul and Jane became engaged?
5. What song did George write on a harmonium at Manfred Klaus Voormann’s house?
6. Which Beatle edited, wrote and illustrated a series of home-made books called "Sport, Speed and Illustrated" when he was seven?
7. Who wrote "I Lost My Little Girl" in 1956?
8. Who was the drummer when the Beatles backed Johnny Gentle for a fortnight's tour of Scotland in 1960?
9. Who earned £7 a week winding electric coils in 1961 ?
10. When did Paul, George and John call themselves Paul Ramon, Carl Harrison and Johnny Silver?
11. Where did the Beatles appear in concert on a bill topped by Frank Ifield?
12. Which Beatle won a book called "Seven Queens of England" in 1953 as a school Coronation Year Essay Prize?
13. Where can you find "The best photographs of the Beatles ... much better than any which appear in newspapers"?