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From: steve{at}[127.0.0.1] (Stephen  X. Carter)
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Subject: Re: Interesting Beatle trivia question
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:39:32 -0500, saki  wrote:

>Edvado wrote:
>
>> Ok - Very good.  But I was looking for something more literal.  There is
>> an error in the statement.  It would still be incorrect if I had worded
>> it this way: 
>> 
>> "Jimmy Nicol appeared with The Beatles while Ringo Starr was in an
>> English hospital." 
>
>Okay, I'm trying to be as literal as possible here.
>
>Is your point that Jimmy Nicol appeared with the Beatles while Ringo was 
>recovering from tonsillitis and pharyngitis, but that Ringo was not at a 
>hospital in London when The Fabs + Jimmy - Ringo played their first gig 
>in Copenhagen on June 4?
>
>Most of the U.S. and Canadian regional news articles I'm seeing about 
>Ringo's initial collapse are dated June 3. I'm finding it hard to 
>conceive of a timeline wherein on one single day (a) Ringo collapses 
>during a London photo session; (b) is taken to hospital for a diagnosis; 
>(c) Jimmy is suggested by George Martin; (d) Jimmy auditions and is 
>accepted; (e) story is reported and picked up worldwide by the 
>Associated Press, their friends and relations and is in print on the 
>same day.
>
>IMHO this is a suspiciously compact chronology, but reporting was taken 
>more seriously in those days, and stranger things have happened.
>

The "one day" scenario does seem very plausible.

They were in the studio recording on 2nd June - and would not have done
that with Jimmy, and
were in Amsterdam on 4th.

-- 
steve.hat.stephencarter.not.com.but.net
Nothing is Beatle Proof!!

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