Did You Know That ?

  • John Lennon learnt to play the harmonica because he thought he may end up in prison and he wanted to be the guy in the cell who played the harmonica.

  • John's mother Julia was killed by a speeding policeman late for duty who was not qualified to drive without supervision!!

  • John changed his middle name to Ono after his second marriage to Yoko.

  • Paul McCartneys wife and mother both died of breast cancer.

  • Paul re-stringed  his first guitar to play upside down (left handed) after realising that the difficulty he was having learning to play that his guitar was meant for a right handed person.

  • Paul and John used to fight  over  which of them  would marry the film star Brigitte Bardot.

  • Paul wrote Yesterday while he was asleep!!

  • When George Harrison was first introduced to some of Paul's friends he headbutted one of them!!

  • George wrote Frank Sinatra's favourite Lennon and McCartney song "Something"

  • According to the film Backbeat George was deported for being under 18 this is only half true his true age was only discovered after he and Paul returned to the Kaiserkeller to pick up the last of their thingsand decided for a joke to set fire to a condom which was on the floor, they were later arrested and deported for ARSON!!!

  • When the Beatles went to meet the Mahareihi Ringo took a whole suitcase of baked beans.

  • The Beatles wanted Ringo to Join the band after Pete Best because they thought he was cool as he had a beard.

  • Ringo was the narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine.

  • Ringo has been in numerous films such as "That'll Be The Day" with David Essex.

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