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Thanks so much, Kent. Your library seems endless. Seeing pictures of them always makes me pause and drift awhile. New pictures of John are thrilling but if I stare long enough they make me a bit

me too......

To identify John's friend in the picture above, it looks like the photo was taken in 1958 as John looks a lot like he does in this shot: and this one:

It is Quarrymen manager Nigel Walley
http://triumphpc.com/mersey-beat/beatle ... lley.shtml

John Lennon photograph uncovered

By Duncan Hooper
Last Updated: 1:34AM BST 04 Oct 2007

Dressed in matching camelhair coats and sporting compulsory 1950s quiffs, the two young men walking down Liverpool's Lime Street in 1958 show little to set them apart from other fashion-conscious youngsters of their generation.

Certainly none of the passers-by eager to get on with their shopping seem to pay much attention to the pair.

But the 17-year old on the right is John Lennon, who had founded The Quarrymen band a year earlier. He is accompanied by the band's manager Nigel Walley.

The photograph, which had been locked away in a cupboard for almost 50 years, was uncovered by a BBC documentary team.

Mr Walley, who now lives in Clacton, Essex, had not seen the picture since 1958. He said: " It's very emotional for me seeing this photo again after all these years. John was a very good friend of mine.

"One thing I know John would have loved, was seeing this photograph. It's something I'll always treasure now."

"I haven't a clue what we were doing then - just a couple of lads out in town larking about probably."

The pair remained close friends after the Beatles found stardom and would get together to reminisce about their youth.

Mr Walley said: "I was only speaking to him a few days before he died. It was a great shock to hear he had been shot. We were making plans to see each other again."

Lennon founded The Quarrymen skiffle group in 1957 and named them after his school Quarrybank. He met Paul McCartney at a gig in the same year and the two went on to revolutionise popular music with the Beatles.

The photo emerged after an anonymous Beatles collector who bought the image at auction came forward. The BBC Inside Out North West programme which uncovered it will be screened tonight at 7:30pm on BBC 1.

The Monkees were created by Don Kirshner as billed as the PRE-Fab Four. They did not write their own songs (Boyce & Hart)
wrote most of them. Davy Jones, Mickey Dolenz ( who never played drums before the Monkees) Peter Tork and Mike Nesmisth all sang and the latter 2 were good musicians. They fought Kirshner about not playing the songs and on later albums were playing and singing on their records and doing live shows, Hendrix even opened up for them. But they were not the Beatles and will never even be close to what the Beatles did for music. nuff said!! I Think Davy did too many drugs and fried his brain.

No question on the previous post about the Monkees. However, if you have not explored Mike Nesmith's work in the 70s and 80s, you're missing some really good stuff. You ought to check out albums like Magnetic South, Loose Salute, Tropical Campfires, and Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma.

Actually, The Monkees were created by producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schnieder. Don Kirshner was brought in after the four were chosen and the realisation that they would need song's for the Tv show. Mike Nesmith did write and produce song's on the first 2 albums and eventually all four wrote songs for later albums. Beatles, maybe not. But they did do what they were pretty good at, the Tv series and they did do some good music. And their show still holds up today, a classic sitcom with a Rock 'N Roll twist.
Karl

http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/Pa ... tmonk.html

A site of Beatle w/ Monkee pictures, like this interesting one: