Окружение Битлз (Beatles People)

drummer called in at the last minute to replace Ringo Starr, who had come down with tonsilitis days before the Beatles were due to leave London on a tour of Denmark, Holland, Hong Kong and Australia.

If you dig around, you'll find some fragmentary evidence of Nicol's walk-on part in the group's Australian triumph: newsreel of the four arriving in Darwin in the rain on June 11; an interview with disc jockey Bob Rogers at Adelaide Town Hall, during which John says the group's reception in Australia dwarfed even the US.

But several days into the tour, Ringo was getting off a flight in Melbourne ready to rejoin his bandmates for the remainder of their gruelling itinerary: a fortnight of two shows a day in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Dunedin, Christchurch and Brisbane.

Nicol, meanwhile, headed home. "When I was on the plane back to London, I felt like a bastard child being sent back home from a family that didn't want me," he told an interviewer in 1987, the last time he spoke publicly about his brush with Beatlemania.

He recorded a single, Husky, which went nowhere much. He married and had a son, Howard, who was to win a prestigious award for his work as sound engineer on a BBC collection of Beatles recordings in the 1990s, spent some time in Sweden, Australia, Mexico, and drifted into obscurity. So where is Jimmy Nicol now?

The Weekend Australian this week tracked him down to a ground-floor flat on the fringe of a north London industrial estate, where he lives as a virtual recluse.

Nicol, estranged from his family for years, has virtually made himself disappear. These days he flatly refuses to talk on the subject of his fleeting fame. "I really don't want to talk about it - I can't remember anything," he said.

Take another look at the photograph of young Nicol, preparing to board the flight and you get a flavour of a comment he was to make more than 20 years later.

"The day before I was a Beatle, not one girl would look me over. The day after ... they were dying just to get a touch of me. Strange and scary all at once. It's hard to describe the feeling but I can tell you it can go to your head. I see why so many famous people kill themselves."



http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9688123%5E16947,00.html

Джимми.

Мне кажется, глядя на эту фотку, что, если б сняли фильм про Джимми Никола, то на его роль можно взять Джима Керри :) И не очень-то грустно получится тогда... :)

и вот, прикольная фотовка - пять Битлов!

Силла Блэк

Ну... там подписано ;)

Рори Сторм

Клаус Воорман

Джефф Линн, Нейл Аспинал
Получают награду за Антологию.

George Martin & Brian Epstein

Designer 'a sexual first' for Lennon

October 06, 2006 11:36am
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AUSTRALIAN-Chinese fashion designer Jenny Kee claims she was John Lennon's first Asian conquest, possibly paving the way for his future wife, Yoko Ono.

"He'd never been with an Asian girl before, so what can I say?" the eccentric designer told Who magazine.

Kee describes in her new autobiography how she ended up in bed with the famous Beatle when she was a 17-year-old groupie.

"He chose me. He said: 'I've never been with an Asian girl before'," she said.

"Sleeping with John Lennon was a fantastic thing.

"I wasn't a hardened groupie. I was very naive.

"I'd only had two boyfriends before that."

Kee said the experience had changed her life, but it wasn't spontaneous: she'd had a strategy for ending up in Lennon's bed.

"There was wall-to-wall security, but we pressed all the buttons in the lift until it jammed, and that's how we got onto the stairwell and met them," Kee said.

"There was no holding back."

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,20534340-7484,00.html

Одно из Голдмановских открытий:

Несмотря на строгое соблюдение музыкантами правила не повторяться, одной девушке все же удалось завоевать особое внимание Джона Леннона. Сегодня Дженни Ки - одна из самых модных художников-модельеров в Австралии, получившая в свое время международное признание за свои свитера в стиле "поп-арт". В 1964 году она была семнадцатилетней студенткой. Не отличаясь особой красотой, она тем не менее умела выглядеть неотразимо. "В тот вечер на мне был костюм из шотландки с отделкой из кожи, - со смехом вспоминает она, - а еще кожаные сапоги и большие круглые (солнечные) очки". Весь вечер Джон не мог оторвать от нее глаз, а когда стемнело, решился. "Джон кивнул мне и сказал: "Тебе, наверное, лучше остаться здесь", - продолжает она. На мгновение опешив, она воскликнула: "О! Вот это сюрприз!"
Дженни почувствовала большое облегчение, когда поняла, что Джон вовсе не собирался обойтись с ней дурно. "Это было не простое "Я тебя хочу", - объясняет она, - скорее всего потому, что я была тогда наивной девочкой. Кажется, он вообще был вторым мужчиной в моей жизни. Он был очень, очень забавным. Мы прохохотали всю ночь. Я тогда носила контактные линзы и показала ему, как ими пользоваться. Он был очень чувствительным, и вовсе никаким не "мачо"... Он обхаживал меня. А я то расстегивала, то снова застегивала платье. Та еще школьница! По-моему, у него никогда раньше не было женщины-азиатки, и это его возбуждало. А из соседней комнаты всю ночь доносились какие-то вопли... Мне показалось, что там все хлестали друг друга плетьми. В какой-то момент я испугалась, поскольку ни за что на свете не позволила бы сделать с собой то же самое. С Джоном я была такой застенчивой! И должна сказать, ему это очень нравилось. Я была совсем не такой, как остальные поклонницы. Это вообще был мой первый выход в свет".
В тот день, когда "Битлз" покидали Австралию, сиднейский аэропорт был наводнен многотысячной толпой поклонников. Но Дженни Ки все же удалось пробиться к взлетной полосе, чтобы попрощаться.
В 1967 году Дженни Ки переехала жить в Лондон и однажды встретила там Леннона вместе с Синтией. Узнав свою восточную красавицу, Джон воскликнул: "О, я помню! Австралия, контактные линзы, грандиозная ночь!"

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В подлиннике приводится еще информация для паралеллей с Йоко:

The day the Beatles left Australia, thousands of people swarmed over Mascot Airport at Sydney; however, the resourceful Jennie Kee found a way to get out on the tarmac. When the Beatles came rolling up inside a Rolls, John recognized Jennie and shouted, "Get into the reception room!" She dashed inside and was soon discovered by Derek Taylor, who greeted her with the nickname she had received from John, the "Dragon Lady."

Дженни Ки now!

Вчера посмотрел фильм Bank Job (в нашем прокате - "Ограбление на Бейкер-Стрит"). Среди прочих англичан там присутствовал персонаж по имени Майкл Экс (Michael X) - если не ошибаюсь, леворадикальный лидер "Черных пантер".
В одной из сцен фильма к него в гостях за столом сидела парочка, удивительно похожая на Джона и Йоко.
Если учесть тот факт, что события происходили в Северном Лондоне в 70-м,
а сценаристами картины были Dick Clement и Ian La Frenais ("Across The Universe"),
то мои подозрения небеспочвенны...
Вроде бы Джонни мелькнул с бокалом еще пару раз в сцене презентации книги Хакима Джамала - другого чёрного брата.

А вот они вместе с Йоко за столом

Согласно информации в справочнике Козлова и Пономаренко в те годы Джон много помогал Майклу, хотя по фильму чёрный братан еще тот негодяй...

У них еще на клавишных Билли Прэстон.А на Революшен9 подыгрывал Хопкинс.Фоток нет,жалко.

Майкл Экс (Michael X) -не знаю точно,но кажись его имя почему-то произносится-МАЛЬКОМ.Что скажут знатоки?

Michael X, a.k.a. Michael Abdul Malik

Майкл Экс (Michael X)и Мальком Экс -разные лица?А фамилия одна?Чудеса!А что за фамилия такая,из одной буквы?!Так Бывает?или это прикол ихний?

Крис О'Делл - одна из сотрудниц Эппл.
Написала книжку "Miss O'Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the Women They Loved".




Chris O'Dell recounts her life with Beatles and other music legends
Susan Whitall / The Detroit News

In the decades since the '60s and Beatlemania, technology changed. Records gave way to tapes, which were tossed in favor of CDs.

In September, the Beatles catalog was released in digitally remastered form. Now you can have all the Fab Four's generation-defining music, delivered digitally to the geek device of your choice. Of course, the music sounds different. If hearing the cowbell too prominently on "Taxman" shatters your world and messes with those childhood memories, it's best to stick to the Beatles on vinyl or CD. But for most listeners, the remastered sessions are a reminder of what it was like to hear the Beatles with fresh ears.

For Chris O'Dell, the Beatles will always sound fresh. She worked for them at Apple Records in the '60s, and she's written an account of those London years in a new book, "Miss O'Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the Women They Loved" (Simon & Schuster, $26), now in bookstores.

"They felt fresh," says O'Dell from her Arizona home. "They still do. My son was playing some old Beatles album in his truck recently, and I said, 'Oh my gosh, that reminds me why it was so exciting.' There was definitely an English sound, so different than anything we were hearing at that time. I was into R&B and Motown and everything. But suddenly there's this freshness and this innocence."

A native Oklahoman, O'Dell in 1964 fell in love with the Beatles in front of her TV set. Through a series of lucky breaks, notably meeting Beatles publicist Derek Taylor in Los Angeles in 1968, at the age of 20 she found herself in the Beatles' inner circle.

George Harrison wrote a song for her ("Miss O'Dell"), as did her boyfriend, Leon Russell ("Pisces Apple Lady"). She was there on the roof of Apple when the Beatles famously performed "Hey Jude" on TV. She watched as they recorded at Abbey Road, and was best friends with George's wife, Pattie Boyd. She had affairs with Ringo Starr, Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan. O'Dell and Joni Mitchell vied for the attention of Sam Shepard while on the road with Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue (Mitchell referred to her in the song "Coyote" as "the woman down the hall").

As O'Dell writes in the book's foreward: "I wasn't famous. I wasn't even almost famous. But I was there ..."

She paid a price for her fast-paced life as part of the rock world elite, developing a serious drug problem she managed to overcome years later.

After her time with the Beatles, O'Dell worked for the Rolling Stones on several tours and was such a trusted intimate she once picked up drugs for Keith Richards. But her heart was always with the Beatles.

"The Beatles were more -- I hate to use the word more respectable, but in a way that's true," O'Dell says. "They were the boys next door while the Stones were the boys on the other side of the fence that you weren't allowed to talk to. I appreciated that freshness. It was the Beatles' music that inspired me more than the Stones' music."

That O'Dell kept diaries during her work at Apple, and as a tour manager for the Rolling Stones, Santana and the Rolling Thunder Revue, helped in putting together her story. She'd written a series of essays about her experiences, then ended up working with a writer, Katherine Ketcham, who pressed her to go deeper into her memory bank, even if the stories were painful or made her look bad.

Unlike most memoirs written by the famous, O'Dell's book is honest about her stumbles. She was a loyal friend to Pattie Boyd and thus never became involved with George (it helped that Boyd asked her not to), but the situation with Ringo Starr was a bit more complicated.