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Eric Ramon
May 13, 2013, 12:00:51 AM5/13/13
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You know that many well-known people have Facebook pages and you can
be "friends" with them but more often than not you'll never hear from
them except when they're pushing a show or a book or whatever and then
it's a general announcement to all their "friends".
so I think it's pretty cool that Bill Harry answers questions and
responds to comments on his page. He's planning a Liverpool archive
that sounds fascinating, with stuff from all the groups, not just the
Beatles.
Anyway, I asked him about the famous cover of Mersey Beat, "Beatles
Win Poll", that had Paul's name spelled "McArtrey". That's how John
spelled it in the "man on a flaming pie" story. I asked Bill if there
was a connection and he said yes, he used John's spelling
because...well, here's what he said: "I knew Paul's surname, but was
unsure of the spelling at the time. At the time John obviously knew
Paul longer than me and he was unsure of the spelling."
I appreciate Bill taking the time to answer this sort of thing.
be "friends" with them but more often than not you'll never hear from
them except when they're pushing a show or a book or whatever and then
it's a general announcement to all their "friends".
so I think it's pretty cool that Bill Harry answers questions and
responds to comments on his page. He's planning a Liverpool archive
that sounds fascinating, with stuff from all the groups, not just the
Beatles.
Anyway, I asked him about the famous cover of Mersey Beat, "Beatles
Win Poll", that had Paul's name spelled "McArtrey". That's how John
spelled it in the "man on a flaming pie" story. I asked Bill if there
was a connection and he said yes, he used John's spelling
because...well, here's what he said: "I knew Paul's surname, but was
unsure of the spelling at the time. At the time John obviously knew
Paul longer than me and he was unsure of the spelling."
I appreciate Bill taking the time to answer this sort of thing.
Stephen X. Carter
May 13, 2013, 3:13:54 AM5/13/13
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I don't belong to the Cult Of Facebook, so perhaps you could ask him if
he has ever considered republishing the 1977 book "Mersey Beat : The
Beginnings of The Beatles".
It's a great selection of reprints from the newspaper he produced,
--
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Marcus
May 13, 2013, 9:55:06 AM5/13/13
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years ago, and included it in a book he did about Beatles books(I
think it was called "Paperback Writer")
http://www.amazon.com/Write-This-Letter-Generation-Remembers/dp/0876501374/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368453191&sr=1-1&keywords=as+i+write+this+letter
Marc
Eric Ramon
May 17, 2013, 6:52:19 PM5/17/13
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here's his reply:
"The Mersey Beat book I have been working on is far more interesting,
full of colour and at least twice as large, although I still have to
find a publisher."
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