Early Beatles Recordings

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Expert RockerPermalink Reply by karen (karlee) on July 30, 2013 at 7:51pm

First time I heard of them having the name Beatals. I know they were originally called Beetles. Regardless, Enjoying the share Barry.. I thought Stuart actually came up with the name “Beetles” and John turned it into “Beatles” with an “a”.

 

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network founder!Permalink Reply by Rich Page on July 31, 2013 at 1:07am

Cool! In terms of names, I always thought they went straight from the Quarrymen to being The Beatles...

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Expert RockerPermalink Reply by barrytheb on July 31, 2013 at 4:00pm

Yeah I had never heard of the name Beatals being used either, and I doubted the accuracy of this until I saw the hand written note by Paul!

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Permalink Reply by Joe Hoare on January 24, 2014 at 12:48am

I have never heard of The Beatals either, I have heard of The Quarrymen, Johnny and The Moondogs, The Silver Beetles, and yes I also heard that John added the "a" to represent that they were a beat group.

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Expert RockerPermalink Reply by barrytheb on January 24, 2014 at 4:47pm

Yeah John liked the double meaning with the "A" in the spelling, he also liked the similarity to The Crickets.

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