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    Quote Originally Posted by Mags75 View Post
    Think someone asked John if he thought
    Ringo was the best drummer in the world,

    John's reply was, "He's not even the best drummer
    in The Beatles."
    wonder what Pete Best is thinking about all this hoo-har ??

    I'm sure the thought must have crossed his mind that it could have been him up there instead of Ringo, and that maybe he would have made a better job of promoting L'pool.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
    Tommy didn't like John Lennon, one of the reasons he left. He died just after John and about 10 people attended the funeral.
    Tommy died 29th September 1981 ( same day Shankley died )

    11 people attended his funeral, I know as i was there, so was my dad.

    Tommy was living in a flat in Belle Vale at the time.

    One really really nice bloke he was

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    Quote Originally Posted by lindylou View Post
    wonder what Pete Best is thinking about all this hoo-har ??

    I'm sure the thought must have crossed his mind that it could have been him up there instead of Ringo, and that maybe he would have made a better job of promoting L'pool.

    I think he had all those thoughts in 1962-1969.

    I'm just glad he got some cash from the Anthology 1 Album royalties.
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    Maybe, but had he made those millions all those years ago and if his face was better known (preventing him having a pint in his local etc etc) he could also easily have been him too living in America.

    As an aside, I believe Pete done very well out of the Beatles anthology film, book and cds (which feature him) and he has at long last been compensated financially, so maybe he's glad to have the money but can walk down Heyman's Green virtually unrecognised.
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    sorry.. i posted then realised it made no sense


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    It's ok Louis, it doesn't prevent Asbo
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    Quote Originally Posted by lindylou View Post
    That's what I thought too. No way is there that amount of posts on that web-site, I look in there from time to time, and I looked in to see what the Echo forum had to say about Ringo - I was surprised at the time to find not that many posts - I thought there would have been a lot more. Some have been added since then - but not that amount.
    Ha! I reckon they've got it from the Echo and got it wrong.

    More than 1,500 furious readers visited our message boards over the weekend and many said they felt betrayed.

    http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liver...0252-20374806/

    Don't know how the Echo know that people who read and don't leave a message are 'furious'. They might have been people from the national press trying to find a story!

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    Quote Originally Posted by H_Asbo View Post
    I think he had all those thoughts in 1962-1969.

    I'm just glad he got some cash from the Anthology 1 Album royalties.
    Hi Asbo, I know he will have thought about it back then, but I mean now while all this stuff is going on about Ringo - - I wonder if Pete Best is looking on with interest at all this fury - and he might think to himself how would he have reacted if was in Ringo's place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ged View Post
    It's ok Louis, it doesn't prevent Asbo
    OMG Ged you made me laugh!

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    Quote Originally Posted by H_Asbo View Post
    I think he had all those thoughts in 1962-1969.

    I'm just glad he got some cash from the Anthology 1 Album royalties.
    How much did he get? Significant?
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    Very, according to a couple of sources (but only 2nd/3rd hand to me)

    He does still 'make' out of his association at Conventions, books etc and the like anyway though and it's only right.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis View Post
    sorry.. i posted then realised it made no sense
    It happens to all of us, but most of us don't bother deleting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    It happens to all of us, but most of us don't bother deleting.
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    i seem to remember reading somewhere that pete got around £5-7 million for the anthology unless i read that wrong, but i dont think i did.

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    Default Sunday, March 16, 2008

    Ringo sings 'Liverpool, I left you.... but with a cool £90 grand in me back pocket, ta very much!"



    RINGO pocketed £90,000 for headlining the start of Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008 - thanks to a blunder by Our Lord Redmond.

    He decided not to give Ringo the £30,000 fee the ex-Beatle was originally asking for his two appearances in the city.

    Redmond decided he would be dead clever like - and just pay Ringo's expenses instead.

    "Oh, okay den," says Ringo, smiling quietly to himself.

    "That's fair enough, I suppose, knowworramean?"

    For some strange reason, Ringo then seems to have decided to make the most of his sojourn in the city of his birth - and bring along nine of his mates with him.

    Ringo and his now substantial retinue - which included his band and general hangers-on - decided to fly business class across from LA.

    Ker-ching!

    Then they checked into the Hope Street hotel on the recommendation of Donald Bull****ter, who handled all the arrangements personally.

    Ker-ching!!

    Ringo's retinue then spent their time being ferried here and there in a fleet of gleaming limousines.

    Ker-ching!!!

    Their daily living expenses, which included food and drinks, were all met by the Culture Company.

    Ker-ching!!!!

    And so it went on.

    One estimate is that Ringo spent ten days here, while the CoC footed the bill for all of the gang.

    Redmond was left suitably left red-faced when he finally received the expenses bill from Ringo - and found the council taxpayers were going to have to pick up the tab for £90.000 - three times the fee that Ringo had asked for.

    Fans will recall that Ringo sang, with some gusto, "I'll Get By With a Little Help From My Friends" during his acclaimed appearance at the Arena.

    But one of his tunes which we did not hear, unfortunately, was: "You Know, It Don't Come Easy."

    Could have fooled us.

    Now Our Lord Redmond and the CoC are hoping that no-one asks any awkward questions about the cost of bringing one of Liverpool's most famous sons back to the city to plug his new album.



    POSTED BY TONY PARRISH47 AT SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2008

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