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Just been listening to 1985 from the Band On The Run album and it got me wondering who will be last man standing of the remaining members of the album cover photo. There are still 5 left at the moment so more than half left.

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4 minutes ago, torbrexbones said:

Just been listening to 1985 from the Band On The Run album and it got me wondering who will be last man standing of the remaining members of the album cover photo. There are still 5 left at the moment so more than half left.

Always thought John Conteh would be last to go, but who knows?

 

Michael Parkinson still on tour....

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2 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Always thought John Conteh would be last to go, but who knows?

 

Michael Parkinson still on tour....

 

 

Conteh used to get hit in the head for a living but he's conspicuously the youngest of the bunch. A rough guess - he will be the last one left but on the day the second last one checks out Conteh might not remember who the fuck that person was or when they were photographed together.

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Why did The Beatles cross the road?

To give conspiracy theorists something to talk about.

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A very tenuous link, but a story about the  February murder of artist, poet and sculptor, Peter Flux in Paignton.

 

Flux was a friend of John Lennon and worked for Apple records in the early 1970s.  A practicing Buddhist, he was stabbed to death by his crack addicted neighbour when he declined to lend her £80.

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20 minutes ago, ebless said:

Death of BBC Radio DJ Paul James aged 72 who once worked with The Beatles.

 

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/comedy-radio-icon-paul-james-19503981

 

 

Yeah, worked for N.E.M.S. and opened their fan mail

 

Also thirty years in pantomimes in Kent

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As I can't find another musician with the name I'll suggest that this is a death notice for the Ray Swinfield who played flute on Penny Lane: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/236611/swinfield

 

If so, he also played on music heard on Mr Benn and the soundtrack for Chicago, played with Johnny Dankworth's Orchestra and recorded music with Roy Castle and separately the Play Away presenters.

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Robert Freeman who did a lot of the Beatles photography dead at 82.

 

 

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On ‎20‎/‎05‎/‎2019 at 13:16, torbrexbones said:

Just been listening to 1985 from the Band On The Run album and it got me wondering who will be last man standing of the remaining members of the album cover photo. There are still 5 left at the moment so more than half left.

Kenny Lynch next to go from the Band On The Run cover.

 

Time eating them up....

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Because i've got nothing better to do (and that i'm a Beatle nut), going to list everyone (that I know of), that had direct links to the boys that could die in next 10 years:

 

The remaining Beatles left

  • Paul McCartney (PM) - 77
  • Ringo Starr (RS) - 79
  • Pete Best - 78 - Was replaced by RS
  • Jimmie Nicol - 80 - RS was in hospital in 1964 and was temp drummer for US tour

*George and John are GH and JL.

 

The Quarrymen (original band JL was in)

  • Colin Hanton - 81
  • Chas Newby - 78 - Was bassist in Hamburg days as well before PM took over
  • John Lowe - 77
  • Nigel Walley - 78
  • Rod Davis - 79

Wife or girlfriend (includes former)

  • Nancy Lee Andrews - 72 (formerly engaged to RS)
  • Pattie Boyd - 75 - ex wife to GH and Eric Clapton
  • Yoko Ono - 86 - JL second wife
  • Olivia Harrison - 71 - GH surviving wife
  • Jane Asher - 73 - PM ex girlfriend

Ex partners of the wife or girlfriend

  • Isaac Tigrett - 71 - Married RS ex wife and is founder of Hard Rock Cafe and House of Blues 
  • Eric Clapton - 74 (see above for link)
  • Toshi Ichiyanagi - 87 - First husband of Yoko Ono
  • Anthony Cox - 83 - Second husband of Yoko Ono

Misc

  • Keisuke Ono - 83 - Yoko Ono's brother
  • Mike McGear - 76 - PM brother
  • Tony Visconti - 75 - May Pang's ex
  • Astrid Kirchherr - 81 - Photographed the boys in Hamburg
  • Klaus Voormann - 81 - Designed artwork for the boys including Revolver
  • Bill Harry - 81 - Arranged for Brian Epstein, to see Beatles perform a lunchtime concert at the Cavern Club
  • Jacqueline Dykins - 70 -  JL half sister
  • Julia Baird - 72 - JL sister

There is another half sister of JL but can't find her age.

 

Wings band members

  • Denny Laine - 75
  • Joe English - 71
  • Denny Seiwell - 76
  • Geoff Britton - 76

Ok i'll go to bed now.

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11 hours ago, ladyfiona said:
  • Jacqueline Dykins - 70 -  JL half sister
  • Julia Baird - 72 - JL sister

There is another half sister of JL but can't find her age

 

If you're referring to Ingrid Pedersen it looks like she was born on 19th June 1945.

https://www.beatlesbible.com/1945/06/19/john-lennons-half-sister-victoria-born/

 

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Julia gave birth on 19 June 1945. Her daughter, named Victoria Elizabeth, was born at the Salvation Army’s Elmswood Infirmary on Liverpool’s North Mossley Hill Road.

 

After pressure from Julia’s family, Victoria was given up for adoption to a Norwegian Salvation Army captain, Peder Pedersen, and his wife Margaret. The child was renamed Ingrid Marie Pedersen and was raised in Crosby, England.

 

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I see Simon Posthuma, one half of Dutch design collective The Fool has died:  https://www.parool.nl/kunst-media/ontwerper-simon-posthuma-81-overleden-rust-zacht-lieve-papa~b1929f94/

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4505509/

 

Again, unable to translate the news link for some reason.

 

They designed clothes worn by The Beatles in Magical Mystery Tour and the All You Need Is Love broadcast and also famously the mural that decorated the Apple Boutique in Baker Street.

 

Image result for apple boutique mural

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20 minutes ago, ebless said:

Cy Tucker, Scouse singer who performed with The Beatles dies aged 77 of coronavirus.

 

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/legendary-singer-who-performed-beatles-17971354

Hmm, definitely one of those Liverpool "legends" who simply didn't break out iirc.

 

Performed at one or perhaps a few of the 20+ Litherland Town Hall dates the Beatles played after the Fabs returned from Hamburg, with Tucker's then band The Cinnamons. So "opened for" is probably more accurate than "performed with".

 

Did release a version of "My Prayer" on his own, and also with Earl Preston And The TTs (with who Tucker was back up singer), neither of which made a dent in the charts. However, Earl Preston And The TTs did beat The Beatles in a Merseybeat poll of the most popular local bands, I'd say 1960/61.

 

Finally a bit pally with McCartney before the Fabs became famous.

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Report (by the best source possible) of the death of Terry Doran:

 

Don't have much to add, it's all there in the tweet, save for providing the tour van in the early days, and managing Mary Hopkin (rather unsuccessfully) and the Apple discovered band Grapefruit.

 

RIP Terry.

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On 12/02/2020 at 16:17, ladyfiona said:

Astrid Kirchherr - 81 - Photographed the boys in Hamburg

Twitter has Kirchherr as dead...

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For the "Where the fuck did I hear that name?" series, German photographer and Stuart Sutcliffe's partner Astrid Kirchhherr dead at 81.

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Have it in English: https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-beatles-photographer-and-collaborator-astrid-kirchherr-dies-aged-81-2669896

 

Astrid Kirchherr was a beautiful soft spoken girl who barely made any money from her photographs with the Fabs. Reading about her, you can only think how it must have been for her when the four boys returned to Hamburg and secretly sought her out during their tour (1964?) after they were a world wide sensation.

 

RIP.

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3 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Have it in English: https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-beatles-photographer-and-collaborator-astrid-kirchherr-dies-aged-81-2669896

 

Astrid Kirchherr was a beautiful soft spoken girl who barely made any money from her photographs with the Fabs. Reading about her, you can only think how it must have been for her when the four boys returned to Hamburg and secretly sought her out during their tour (1964?) after they were a world wide sensation.

 

RIP.

No need to say RIP, you already know that true legends never die.

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32 minutes ago, drol said:

For the "Where the fuck did I hear that name?" series, German photographer and Stuart Sutcliffe's partner Astrid Kirchhherr dead at 81.

 

Hah, my words exactly. 

 

Normally, it'll be a name that I wouldn't recognize, but her pictures of the boys + her work on A Hard Days Night hasn't gone unnoticed. May she rest well.

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Updated the list as Astrid Kirchherr has now passed, RIP.

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3 minutes ago, ladyfiona said:

Updated the list as Astrid Kirchherr has now passed, RIP.

 

Only mentioned in the previous SIX posts.

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Believe she made this post hence why she mentioned the comment: 

On 12/02/2020 at 16:17, ladyfiona said:

Because i've got nothing better to do (and that i'm a Beatle nut), going to list everyone (that I know of), that had direct links to the boys that could die in next 10 years:

 

The remaining Beatles left

  • Paul McCartney (PM) - 77
  • Ringo Starr (RS) - 79
  • Pete Best - 78 - Was replaced by RS
  • Jimmie Nicol - 80 - RS was in hospital in 1964 and was temp drummer for US tour

*George and John are GH and JL.

 

The Quarrymen (original band JL was in)

  • Colin Hanton - 81
  • Chas Newby - 78 - Was bassist in Hamburg days as well before PM took over
  • John Lowe - 77
  • Nigel Walley - 78
  • Rod Davis - 79

Wife or girlfriend (includes former)

  • Nancy Lee Andrews - 72 (formerly engaged to RS)
  • Pattie Boyd - 75 - ex wife to GH and Eric Clapton
  • Yoko Ono - 86 - JL second wife
  • Olivia Harrison - 71 - GH surviving wife
  • Jane Asher - 73 - PM ex girlfriend

Ex partners of the wife or girlfriend

  • Isaac Tigrett - 71 - Married RS ex wife and is founder of Hard Rock Cafe and House of Blues 
  • Eric Clapton - 74 (see above for link)
  • Toshi Ichiyanagi - 87 - First husband of Yoko Ono
  • Anthony Cox - 83 - Second husband of Yoko Ono

Misc

  • Keisuke Ono - 83 - Yoko Ono's brother
  • Mike McGear - 76 - PM brother
  • Tony Visconti - 75 - May Pang's ex
  • Astrid Kirchherr - 81 - Photographed the boys in Hamburg
  • Klaus Voormann - 81 - Designed artwork for the boys including Revolver
  • Bill Harry - 81 - Arranged for Brian Epstein, to see Beatles perform a lunchtime concert at the Cavern Club
  • Jacqueline Dykins - 70 -  JL half sister
  • Julia Baird - 72 - JL sister

There is another half sister of JL but can't find her age.

 

Wings band members

  • Denny Laine - 75
  • Joe English - 71
  • Denny Seiwell - 76
  • Geoff Britton - 76

Ok i'll go to bed now.

 

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