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Bernard Purdie Played Drums On Beatles Recordings!

7 October 2011
9.52pm

Inner Light

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Check this out! According to Purdie, he played the drums on 21 Beatle songs including 'She Love You'

The only thing I can think of is Dexter Jr. brought him into Capitol Records and had him overdub Ringo's drums on the American Releases only but I still have my doubts.

http://www.jimvallance.com/03-…..urdie.html

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7 October 2011
10.19pm

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The guy is talking absolute nonsense. Ringo never played on anything! Purdie played on 21 songs early on! Erm listen to the session tape bootlegs from the Please Please Me outtakes onwards and you have Ringo all over the songs. Plus there are no differences in the drumming between the us and uk tapes.

This is on of those really stupid claims to fame, he probably made the claim in the 70's, got away with such an idiotic statement and kept going unable to backtrack without looking a right fool, so kept repeating his inanities.

And even if you begin to think 'wow, this is big news' when Purdie was asked which ones he said 'um i cant say'.

This absolute rubbish has actually irritated me. blue-meanie

Purdie actually sounds like a really good musician with a really impressive list of people who he has had worked with. Why he then made these claims is beyond me.

"Well, probably we'll sell less records, less people'll go to see the film, we'll write less songs, and we'll all die of failure" (John Lennon 8/64)

7 October 2011
11.48pm

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Inner Light said:

Check this out! According to Purdie, he played the drums on 21 Beatle songs including 'She Love You'

The only thing I can think of is Dexter Jr. brought him into Capitol Records and had him overdub Ringo's drums on the American Releases only but I still have my doubts.

He played on some old Decca songs, ie over Pete Best. Never used.

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8 October 2011
9.53am

meanmistermustard

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According to wiki Purdie also drummed on some of the Tony Sheridan recordings to give it a "punchier sound". So thats Hamburg, Decca, and early EMI recordings.

Leave it to a Beatle to answer the 21 song claims. Ringo "Well then, what was I doing in the studio? I've heard that rubbish before. Everyone was expecting me to come out and fight it. You don't bother fighting that shit."

"Well, probably we'll sell less records, less people'll go to see the film, we'll write less songs, and we'll all die of failure" (John Lennon 8/64)

8 October 2011
12.25pm

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I stopped reading it when he said that Brian paid him ten large to keep his mouth shut. I knew right then it was a load of horse dung. I couldn't imagine Brian ever paying anyone $10,000 for anything.

The article did have one redeeming quality. When I scrolled down, I saw my favorite picture of Sir George.

Other than that… a-hard-days-night-paul-11

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