Beatles Themed Weekend Headlines

It’s been a busy past week, so let’s catch up to the many headlines that have come across the waves recently. Let’s start it off with Yoko Ono and her recent sickness that caused her to go to a hospital…

Yoko Ono was released from the hospital over the weekend in New York after being hospitalized for serious flu like symptoms. He son Sean Lennon used his social media accounts to share the good news regarding his mother’s health.

In an odd coincidence, the hospital Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital is the same facility John was taken to after being shot that cold December night by John Hinckley. Yoko just celebrated her 83rd birthday on February 18th.

Keeping with the Beatles theme, the 78 RPM disc containing two demo songs from the early Beatles failed Decca audition has been found, and will now be up for auction in England. The Decca audition took place on January 1st, 1962.

The fab four made the demo with plans to impress potential manager George Martin to get them signed by Decca records, but to manager Brian Epstein’s surprise, George Martin hated the demo. He thought Paul’s voice sounded like a girl’s voice, and George Harrison’s guitar riffs were all over the road. The negative feedback motivated the boys to get their act together.

How did the rare 78 RPM disc disappear, and then surface? It seems Brian gave the disc to then keyboard player Les Maguire of the band Gerry and the Pacemakers after the rejection by Martin, and now 50+ years later its needed to be auctioned by Les to buy his granddaughter a new house.