The Beatles Bible - Topic: Ken Brown

skye on Ken Brown

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:00:00 +0100

Did you upload them to photobucket or the like?

mjb on Ken Brown

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:00:46 +0100

I was speaking to Rory Best at the Casbah Coffee Club last Tuesday and he told me all about Ken.

BTW - will post pics of my visit when I can find out how to do it. Anyone got any help on that?

Zig on Ken Brown

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:48:00 +0100

Just found this in the Gibson Guitars website of all places...

RIP Ken.

mithveaen on Ken Brown

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:49:54 +0100

Wow!! That's an interesting read!! I'm sorry he's passed away.

Harsh words from in that story there....

Joe on Ken Brown

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:29:41 +0100

Bill Harry says it was last night. (He says Ken "down" last night, but I presume he meant to type "died")

Zig on Ken Brown

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:10:22 +0100

Joe - when did he pass? I just 'Googled" him and saw no notice. I did find this though...

Ken is between Paul and John.

Joe on Ken Brown

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:55:46 +0100

Ken's listed with the Les Stewart Quartet and the Quarry Men here: http://www.beatlesbible.com/fe...../line-ups/

Joe on Ken Brown

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:11:20 +0100

I just received this email from Bill Harry, founder of Mersey Beat. I hope he doesn't mind me reprinting it here.

Message: Roag Best has just phoned me to say that Ken Brown down last night. He was found dead on the living room floor of his house and had been suffering from emphysema.

Here is a piece I had written about him.

BROWN, KEN. A Liverpool guitarist who played alongside a 16-year-old George Harrison in the Les Stewart Quartet in 1958, at a time when John Lennon’s group the Quarry Men were dormant.

They were practising at a venue called lowlands ...