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.

Or are you looking for a more precise date for the hospital visit? Some 
articles specify University Hospital in London was the site of the 
diagnosis. Others (such as an AP report in the Oshkosh Daily 
Northwestern for June 3) suggest: "A doctor said his first diagnosis was 
acute laryngitis and tonsillitis. A spokesman for the Beatles said the 
doctor thought Ringo, 23, should go to a hospital". So was the diagnosis 
performed in clinical circumstances that could not be strictly described 
as a hospital?

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