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Here's a little poser for you all there is a tenuous connection between The Spotnicks and The Beatles - What is it.

Posted above on earlier topic no one attempted it yet.

I am sorry I missed it, Roy. My response is Jimmy Nicol. A penny for your thoughts.

My Bonnie?

I believe Peter has it.

Yep Peter is right.

Yes that's it Jimmy Nichol was for a short time in the Spotnicks

Good one Roy. He was in the spotnicks with the Beatles too.

He joined the Spotnicks in September 1965 which was after his time with The Beatles, issued a couple of singles one of which Husky I have.

I thought Peter meant the Sputniks.

Hear Jimmy and the Beatles in 1964:
http://www.beatlesagain.com/bjimmy.html


Great video clip of Jimmy and Beatles in Australia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjXzTYExSLU&NR
and check out the end with Jimmy and Ringo together. The Fabs were full into their "Deuchland Uber Alles" sieg-heil routine which I've never really understood.... A pure Lennonism I suppose:





Jimmy Pre Beatles with Vince Eager & his Quiet Three:
http://www.vinceeager.co.uk/home.htm

Tex Makins, Jimmy Nichol & Kenny Packwood entertaining on an aircraft carrier. Year?

After playing with The Beatles, Jimmy met up with the Fab Four when The Shubdubs played with the Beatles and The Fourmost on July 12, 1964 at the Hippodrome Theatre in Brighton.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Nicol
After his brief time with The Beatles, Nicol declared bankruptcy in 1965. That year, he joined numerous bands including Swedish group The Spotnicks (who formed in 1961 and have since released 42 albums and still tour) which he left in 1967.

Jimmy Nichol with The Spotnicks approx 1966:
http://www.spotnicks.net/


.... and check out The Spotnicks (sans Nichol) with their rendition of 'My Bonnie' in 1962. Great stuff, and they ALMOST get the words right:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyW2tHNFA1A&mode=related&search=

Spotnicks with Jimmy Nichol in 1966:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsR6PFf2O7E

and The Spotnicks (sans Nichol) signature song "Amapola". Does this somehow look like a prehistoric Devo?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvYL29BSOjs

More Jimmy with The Spotnicks:


And check out Jimmy's drum solo with The Spotnicks on the song 'Husky':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4uKt0yhibU


In 1975 Jimmy Nichol returned to England after setting up a button factory in Mexico. Other work in this time included housing renovations and carpentry. Later in his life, it was rumoured that Nicol had died in 1988, however a report in 2005 by the Daily Mail confirmed that he was still alive and living as a recluse in London."

Jimmy Nicol - Spotnicks documentary 1983:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEqhRDx8tj4

yipes!

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Lastly, an interesting Beatles page; but none of the video or audio seems to work.... WAY too bad:
http://www.beatlesjpgr.com/en/pagbeatlesen.html

Kent: Just a marvellous post. Thanks a day in the life of Jimmy Nicols.

I got some of the links to work Kent on your last link.

The cover of Humpty Dumpty was Nichol's first solo release. Husky was the second though later recorded by The Spotnicks.

Judging by videos on You Tube a lot of Spotnicks fans out there, I have a number of albums but nowhere near the 42 Kent quotes.

The 42 albums (and 18 million records) was from Wikipedia. I gotta be honest in that I'd never even heard of The Spotnicks before!

The name Spotnicks was a takeoff on Russia's Sputnick satillite and the band was known for their spacesuit outfits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAc1Mfy_lTM

The Spotnicks sound (and stage movements) are very much akin to Dick Dale. My first thought is that the Spotnicks were heavily influenced by Dale, but could it be the other way around? Was the origin of Dick Dale's sound really the guitar work of the Spotnicks' Bo Winberg?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8