Fifth Beatle

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In the course of pop history , the media described the “fifth Beatle” among the Beatles , which consisted of four members, with one exception 15 months immediately after they were founded, as those people who were close to the group and / or were of great importance to the group .

  • Neil Aspinall was a school friend of Paul McCartney and George Harrison , who took on assistant duties for the Beatles and can be heard as a musician on various recordings of the Beatles.
  • George Best has been a successful soccer player since 1963 and has been dubbed the fifth Beatle by the media because of his popularity, lifestyle and long hair.
  • Pete Best was a drummer for the Beatles before Ringo Starr until August 1962.
  • Brian Epstein was the Beatles' manager from 1961 to 1967 and an important driving force behind the group's international success.
  • George Martin was the producer and arranger of the Beatles, worked closely with them, especially in the creative field, and played the piano on some of the recordings.
  • Jimmie Nicol represented the sick Ringo Starr in 1964 as a drummer at a total of nine concerts.
  • Yoko Ono was the second wife of John Lennon. She was said to have (mostly bad) influences on the Beatles.
  • Billy Preston played during the sessions, which later became the album Let It Be was, Hammond organ and electric piano .
  • Tony Sheridan produced with the Beatles in 1961 as "Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers" the album My Bonnie , from which several singles were released. The recordings were made with the cast of John Lennon (guitar), Paul McCartney (electric bass), George Harrison (guitar) and Pete Best (drums).
  • Stuart Sutcliffe was the bassist for the Beatles and an old friend of John Lennon . He is the only "actual fifth Beatle", with him the band consisted of five members in 1960/1961. His story is told in the film Backbeat , among others .
  • Klaus Voormann designed the cover of the LP Revolver and can be heard as bassist on solo albums by John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
  • Andy White played drums on the single Love Me Do in September 1962 .

Paul McCartney made the decision easy: "If anyone should be called the fifth Beatle, it is Brian Epstein".

Further influences of the term

In the episode Lisa as a vegetarian (season 7) of the animated series The Simpsons , Apu claims that he was called the “fifth Beatle”. The figure of Paul McCartney - spoken by himself - confirms this.

Referring to George Martin as the "fifth Beatle", Geoff Emerick , the longstanding sound engineer at EMI , called himself the "sixth Beatle".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Fifth Beatle” Neil Aspinall is dead . At: Spiegel Online , March 24, 2008
  2. ^ The birth of El Beatle . In: The Independent
  3. ↑ Sir George Martin, the fifth Beatle . In: Welt Online , November 16, 2006
  4. ↑ The "fifth Beatle" turns 75 . ( Memento from September 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: Die Presse , February 15, 2008
  5. ↑ The "fifth Beatle" was 59 years old . - Tagesschau, June 6, 2006 (tagesschau.de archive)
  6. ^ "Fifth Beatle" Tony Sheridan is dead dpa report on February 17, 2013
  7. ↑ The fifth Beatle . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 24, 2003
  8. ↑ The "fifth Beatle" Andy White is dead. In: Focus , November 12, 2015
  9. ↑ Debbie Geller: The Brian Epstein Story . 2000, p. 49
  10. ↑ An interview with sound engineer Geoff Emerick. In: FAZ , December 14, 2007