The Beatles Ask Ringo Starr To Join The Group 1962
The Beatles Ask Ringo Starr To Join The Group 1962
It was during the Hurricanes' residency at Butlins that John Lennon and Paul McCartney drove from Liverpool to Skegness on Aug. 15, 1962, to ask Ringo to join the Beatles. Ringo had already agreed to join Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes in Hamburg for £20 a week, but Lennon and McCartney offered him £25 a week, which he accepted.
Lennon and McCartney had suggested Rory Storm swap drummers with the Beatles and have Pete Best replace Ringo, but Best turned the idea down.
Rory Storm, "was very annoyed when Ringo left and he complained to me," wrote Brian Epstein in his autobiography "A Cellarful of Noise. "I apologised and Rory, with immense good humour said 'Okay. Forget it. The best of luck to the lot of you'," Epstein says in the book.
