Johnny Gentle and The Beatles

admin · Post by **admin** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:04 am

Ian Forsyth and Johnny Gentle have a book on the Beatles' Tour in May 1960 with Johnny. You can see information on the book here.

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:35 am

Peter, thanks for the info!! I'm on it!! lol!

:^)

BTW, 2500 posts!! Wow!

admin · Post by **admin** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:45 am

Chris, you are most welcome. By the way, I don't hold the Rickenbacker Forum posting record.

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:59 am

I have always been fascinated by the Beatles beginnings....this should be quite an interesting read!!

If memory serves, I believe BobAmpeg had over 2500 before a name change...

larrywassgren · Post by **larrywassgren** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:31 am

I've read that book and it's great. Unfortunately there are no new photos from that tour. The only one to surface so far is George on his Graziozo on stage behind Johnny Gentle. Recently, Tracks(who deal in Beatles memorabilia) from England set up a valuations/buying table at Royal Highland Hotel in Inverness, Scotland and a guy walked in with the first Beatle autographs ever(from that tour). What's interesting is John Lennon claimed he always stuck with his own name for that tour but Paul McCartney claims in the Anthology videos that John was 'quite happy to be Long John Silver for that tour'. On these newly discovered autographs Paul signs 'Paul Ramone' and George signs 'Carl Harrison'. John signs his name 'John Lennon' so John was correct. Tracks paid about $5000 for this set but it's probably worth at least 3 times that. They got lucky. I've got a couple photos of these if anyone knows how to post them here. As for the book, the best thing I got out of it was Johnny Gentle claims he started seeing the beginnings of Beatlemania by the end of this tour because the girls were screaming more for the group than him. I've always thought The Beatles had to be better on this tour than people(even themselves) give them credit for as they had known each other and played guitar together for three years at this point. Larry Parnes thought they were good enough and he was managing Billy Fury who was huge in England at the time.

admin · Post by **admin** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:38 pm

Newspaper article regarding first Beatle autographs from Larry.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 3:51 pm

Man, that picture looks like Dhani!

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:19 pm

Peter!

Thanks again for this link!

I contacted Gavin, sent him payment and when I got home today from a weeks vacation, the book was already here! He even included an autographed pic of Johnny and a nice thank you note...! GREAT people , these folks are!!

Can't wait to start the read!!