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Who was the 'Fifth Beatle'?
20 July 2015
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George Martin.

By the way, this topic would work well as a poll.

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Most likely to post things that make you go hmm... 2015, 2016, 2017. 

20 July 2015
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Necko said
George Martin.

By the way, this topic would work well as a poll.

Absolutely.

By the way, absolutely.

20 July 2015
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Necko said
George Martin.

By the way, this topic would work well as a poll.

Hmm, yes. I think George Martin would be a reasonable pick.

And yeah, I guess I should make a poll.
…how do I do that?

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21 July 2015
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George Martin………

 

While Eppy got them going and a great debt there………While Billy plays on some tracks and kept them civil to each other…….Er…… While Eric did a spectacular one-off…….and Mal Evans played anvil…..And Yoko played merry hell…….

……..GM played on a few more records than Billy…….Took managerial decisions ……for example not to focus on any one of them initially……Allowing them their way with  ‘Please Please Me ‘ even though he believed in ‘I like it’……. Pivotal in the choice of early singles……arrangements…….arrangements  that got more and more involved…….musical translator……musical encyclopaedia…..and resolver of musical wishes.’You’ll fix it George.

I can’t think of anyone in Britain who could have given them so much help.

 

Grab the title of 5th Beatle George and……Take it away…….You deserve something for agreeing to wearing that monkey suit.

 

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Wigwam said
You deserve something for agreeing to wearing that monkey suit.

What Monkey suit? 😛

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21 July 2015
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First, a reminder about the Thread Search Thread.

I can create a poll and pin it so that it becomes Post 1 of this thread. Everyone PM me by Friday with the names you want in the poll, and I will create it.

21 July 2015
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Or…if you want to get the PM’s and create the poll, @Knight, I can pin your post.

Or…you can pick names that have already been added to this thread and create the poll now.

21 July 2015
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Ahhh Girl said
If you want to get the PM’s and create the poll, @Knight, I can pin your post.

Yeah, that’d be good, except how do you make a poll?

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21 July 2015
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Knight created the poll. I pinned it so it is the first post in the thread so it will be easy to find in the future.

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Maybe G. Emerick should be among them too?

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22 July 2015
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lillo78 said
Maybe G. Emerick should be among them too?

Is he canon?

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I didn’t get to the new thread created on this topic before Google did. %$#^&%$ you, Google. So I locked that thread and redirected readers to this thread.

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BBC Article – ‘Who most earned the title ‘fifth Beatle‘?’

 

The most interesting section is below

For John Lennon it was artificial to be obsessed about who was “in” and who wasn’t. “I’m not the Beatles. I’m me. Paul isn’t the Beatles. Brian Epstein wasn’t the Beatles, neither is [music publisher] Dick James,” he told Rolling Stone Magazine in 1971.

“The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate. George was a separate individual singer, with his own group as well, before he came in with us, the Rebel Rousers. Nobody is the Beatles. How could they be? We all had our roles to play.”

Sadly Paul Gambaccini is quoted spouting more of his twaddle, he’s another “expert” I cannot stand.

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11 March 2016
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The Walrus was Paul!

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Billy Preston or George Martin, it’s a tough call.

Maybe you should try posting more.

9 January 2017
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This thread feels like it could use a poll.

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9 January 2017
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George Martin without question. Nobody else was more a part of the music making process. 

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There is a poll in this newer thread so have shuffled posts over before everything progresses.

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9 January 2017
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Good call, mmm.

The poll is in post 1 of this thread. I just voted.

9 January 2017
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Added my tuppence to the poll and will say it in a comment, too…. George Martin. george-martinpaul-mccartney-thumb_gif

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