The Beatles Go Dutch - Interview 1964

[@sweet.n.soursauce]

10:52 Paul: "I don't think we will be changing our style too much..." ...3 years later Sgt. Peppers came out.

[@carlosantuckwell]

Yes, but the original question was: "...in response to changing tastes?" The Beatles largely (not completely) CREATED the changing tastes, and, as Paul said "nothing drastic, not singing in front of a big band" (and I think John said, "we won't be singing trail music". What came out of that question too was the surprise in the interviewer to hear that they mainly played their style of music for the love of it - the interviewer in a very surprised tone said, "What? Not for money?" To which Lennon replied: "we were playing our music for 5 years for very little money before we made it."

[@dirgesinthedark5637]

EXACTLY! The REAL Paul would NEVER be ST PEPPER! This interview is very telling that Paul this Paul was no more by Dec 1966. The imposter Williams Shepard...is a disgusting LIAR!

[@astromaniac360]

DIRGES in the DARK That garbage "theory" was debunked 50 years ago. It's highly pathetic that people like you still perpetuate it.

[@lakerouge9857]

Goshhh!! Until now someone still belives that rubbish rumor?

[@lakerouge9857]

DIRGES in the DARK they didn't expected to produce the Sgt.Peppers,MMT,White album........They were still touring at this time until they got tired,exhausted and stop touring for good reason, as what paul said "how can we improved if we can't hear ourselves performing?" And that's how they started experimenting in the studio, creating some unique styles of sounds.

[@Olivia.Sheree]

John shoving Paul when he said “marriage is no good” hah

[@cindchan]

Calmest Beatles fans I have ever seen.

[@connorpatricknolanmusic1453]

It's so weird

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

GoodKarma "khkhkhkhkhaaaaakhkhkaagghghgkhkhk" is literally how you speak. _calm_ yeah sure

[@Christie2710]

The Beatles are in another room. So the audience can’t see them. At the end a girl asks: ‘When do they start playing, this takes too much time.’ The playbackperformance was a mess. A lot of dancing teenagers on stage and security is trying to remove them. At they end you can see only Jimmie playing the drums. Paul, Ringo and John are lost in the crowd.

[@RDbiggie]

Checkmate British and American ladies in the 60s hahahah

[@corani1996]

No, actually the most calmest Beatles fans from Japan. You've watch their documenter :)

[@EstoEsUnaServilletaDePapel]

1:27 Interviewer: Any of you is in love? John: Me! Paul: Yes, he's married

[@Jeff-jg7jh]

Love is fleeting.

[@sexysadie2901]

Yeah, Paul said that so quickly. Interesting.

[@nadiachristiansen7599]

Paul would have been too if he didn't drive on 11 September 1966.

[@Olivia.Sheree]

Them trying to follow the Dutch conversation is so cute.

[@yeroen1954]

which Lennon replied: "we were playing our music for 5 years for very little money before we made it." Thats what them makes them so special.

[@neonsashimidream1075]

As they say, it usually takes 10 years to be an overnight success.

[@michealcurrie8272]

Jim Nicols covering for Ringo was a humble guy.

[@MichaelCorleone654]

Ringo looks different

[@reggiekrager5411]

Michael Corleone Didn't know his second name was jimmy XDXDXD

[@tommycollins7846]

That's because Ringo was taken ill from tonsillitis.

[@javierdespanjaard4384]

@@tommycollins7846 yeah that probably caused his face to change and stuff

[@tommycollins7846]

Javier Hagendijk not true, Ringo was in the hospital while taking his tonsils out. Jimmy Nichol is in this video with The Beatles.

[@javierdespanjaard4384]

@@tommycollins7846 you must be really fun at parties.

[@honeybear7759]

The way George says the dutch word ''kever'' is so cute

[@leonmeekel5486]

I seriously doubt if anyone will read this but if you are wondering its at 10:12

[@karaamundson3964]

I think he alone prepared for that question 🪲

[@rachelthompson7487]

@@leonmeekel5486thank you.

[@rachelthompson7487]

Yes 😊❤

[@GILLnBARRY]

This is a fine video for posterity with Jimmy Nichol filling in for Ringo while he was ill. It had to be very uncomfortable for him during this interview, since he knew he would only be a "Beatle" temporary and really could not chime in as he may have wished. It had to be elating and frustrating to be with such a fantastic band for a short time and to quickly fade into obscurity thereafter.

[@marklonteen4791]

True. But Nichol's over the top fake laughter and pounding of the desk, chain smoking only made it clear how petrified he actually was.

[@karaamundson3964]

@@marklonteen4791 Poor guy. He did look good behind the kit tho

[@Lennon6412]

Jimmy's laugh is a bit annoying.

[@krishsen2520]

Yea he was exaggerating a bit. To be fair, these guys were asking retarded questions.

[@allizappamcminn4376]

Lennon6412 It was a sarcasm

[@Philmod68]

Yes...but i think like Krish D said....it was exaggerated too much. I think he was just trying too hard to fit in with the guys. Which I would not even have thought to imagine to do...if I was in his position.

[@kurtaricanli477]

He was having the time of his life.

[@sabinewei3041]

😁😂😂😂

[@maddie1474]

7:56 I relate to John the most rn

[@neonsashimidream1075]

Poor Jimmy... this would have had to be the strangest experience a person could have. To be a tagalong/faux member of the biggest band in history and sort of experience the phenomenon from the inside for a matter of days, but to know that it has nothing to do with you and that you will be out of it again in no time. It's very uncomfortable for me to watch. It would be both an amazing opportunity and a cruel trick of fate at the same time.

[@invictusofficialph]

I think Jimmy did fine. It was a known contract anyway. He is way above than the rest coz he got to sub for the biggest band in the world!

[@smashingbiscuits]

ironic paul's been married 3 times

[@andrekkezero]

tell me more.

[@thebeatles6484]

Andres Rivera Paul's first wife Linda died of breast cancer in 1998. So Paul found Heather Mills and divorced (for good reason) and in 2012 or 14, he married Nancy Shevell and is with her ever since.

[@dirgesinthedark5637]

That guy is NOT Paul. His name is Williams Shepard. Go read The Memoirs of Billy Shears

[@spy1965]

Sarcastic clap

[@L0REN0R2Z0RR0]

DIRGES in the DARK Please shut it. That theory is so god damn retarded... I used to believe parts of it as a schoolboy, till I started thinking a bit.

[@trebledamages]

Jimmy Nicol came to the Beatle's rescue in 1964 and saved the Australian tour! I hope he is doing well.

[@Hester-l6k]

I heard he became a recluse and has remained hidden from the public or any form of media

[@spy1965]

@@Hester-l6k Sounds like me....lol

[@paulweston285]

I heard he open a kebab shop " Jimmys Kebabs "

[@arricammarques1955]

@@paulweston285 Managed a bar in Mexico

[@jaydenwhitlen1489]

4:04 crowd laughs, cut to Beatles in confusion

[@lRedPosion]

He asks if they're alright or not and she replied with Naaaa they're fine.....

[@jaydenwhitlen1489]

@@lRedPosion Thank you I was wondering what they were saying

[@Alex-444x94]

we wouldnt do anything DRASTIC... *cough* *cough* .....SGT PEPPER....

[@Alex-444x94]

***** ok

[@lety04]

That's exactly what I thought😂

[@rhythmantic]

John "Leper", that John, always exchanging similar sounds.

[@pimprijs8836]

He liked to make fun of (foreign) interviewer

[@dynjarren7523]

He couldn’t resist a play on words. He was good at it though!

[@luzvaldizan2690]

He was dyslexic....

[@chantelleadlington]

@@luzvaldizan2690 oh stop it. He was just doing a play on words like he always did. Would you call him dyslexic since he once told a reporter his name is Eric as a joke?

[@sexysadie2901]

​@@luzvaldizan2690 He was not dyslexic, and dyslexic people only have problems reading and writing, not speaking.

[@The_whimsickal_artist]

Jimmy with the fake laugh😅.... trying to fit in but knowing hes only a temp. Love the Beatles, my favourite band..still👍🏻🎸

[@bjgrant1234]

Please with the ugly comments about Jimmy N.... the cat was sittin for Ringo while he had his tonsils dealt with... Jimmy N was under the brian epstein umbrella and knew the tunes...so he got selected.....very entertaining stuff, as always with the beatles, ALWAYS top shelf!

[@spy1965]

+Brian Grant Ya, lets see how some of these keyboard warriors would perform @ 22 years old, on tv, sitting with a popular rock band, answering questions.

[@spy1965]

Excellent question by the girl @ 5:00. Macca and Lennon were wondering what Nichol's reply was going to be. That, in itself, makes the whole video worth watching!

[@Borna909]

Paul 11:15: "we wouldnt do something drastic like Big Band because we dont enjoy that kiind of music". About 2 years later he wrote "Got to get you into my Life" and I´m glad the Beatles seemed to have changed their minds on Big Band sound.

[@tiablue9106]

Paul: "All girls are good" that's a lie

[@dynjarren7523]

Tia Blue Not true! All girls are good for something!

[@pts5217]

He’d probably retract it after meeting Yoko.

[@ullabritta8758]

@@dynjarren7523 -for what? For something in the way they move

[@skysmindgarden]

Well if he didn't say that he'd get stomped on by the press and lose a lot of fans.

[@jo_darel]

He hadn't met Yoko

[@lukas_9725]

The girl asking a question at 7:12 is Marga van Praag now an Dutch journalist and ex-news reporter

[@peterhopqk]

klopt helemaal. :) ik herinner nog bij Kopspijkers

[@luissampaio2104]

Cool!

[@haysfordays]

Good question too.

[@CarmieSchulz]

Jimmy Nichol looked like he had quite a sense of humor. I loved that laugh after Lennon said he bought his wife for 50 pounds in Nairobi. Pete Best lacked a sense of humor which is why Ringo eventually got the nod from the others.

[@undeadnightorc]

Visually Pete just looked totally out of place among the other 3 members. Pete had naturally curly hair and couldn't sport the moptop hairdo. The whole "Beatle look" for the band would have been ruined.

[@CarmieSchulz]

Undead Nightorc Yeah, but I think he was also a very serious person and not a funny guy which wouldn't have meshed well with the Beatles image. Part of the Beatles success was due to their clowning.

[@famatu]

Dan Michaels Ringo got the "nod" from the others because they had an amazing session together in Hamburg and it probably just felt right, can't really blame that solely on Pete's lack of humour.

[@joesheppards1]

I hope Jimmys alright 😕

[@Smile892011]

John! Paul! George! ...Jimmy?

[@narayan581]

el sustituto de ringo cuando este estaba enfermo

[@angelicaquirarte6156]

@@narayan581 sip exacto

[@niamh3494]

Hahah hearing George try and speak Dutch is magnificent

[@gumbybr]

Paul is so good looking. Today he's still a good looking man. It's hard to believe that he'll be 75 in June.

[@ralphandnick]

It is not the original Paul today!

[@dynjarren7523]

Gimme a break with Paul is Dead And was replaced crap! If it’s true then I’m a fan of the imposter! He’s quite talented and doing a great job!

[@magazinekitchen]

@@d-rockanomaly9243 AMEN!

[@astrowarrior3064]

He will be 82 this year

[@thebaobabs206]

Astro Warrior Keep dreaming!

[@rebekahpenrod4258]

5:53 Paul and George go "nooo" at the same time lol

[@hoodedman07]

Jimmy Nichol trying so hard to be a Beatle. What an opportunity. He did a good job

[@blackmore4]

5:14 Great title for a Jimmy Nicol solo album; "Til Next Thursday"... :(

[@BeatlesLoveFrieden]

blackmore4 It wasn't even assumed :p

[@CindyDijkema]

My grandma was there!

[@nathanabella5316]

We wouldn't do anything drastic, like with a big band or something .... Goo goo gajoob... Hahahaha

[@kevinruddy448]

I'll always be happy l was a kid in the 60s, everything was fab 😀👌

[@bettyhinman8517]

I liked how John said "How dare you" to Jimmy

[@johnmartyp2630]

1:43 no.... I don't like marriage No good..! No good..! Marriage hahaha

[@KarlMartell732]

"Searchers and Rolling Stones" ^^

[@emerybayblues]

John, Paul, George and Jimmy.

[@ExtremeBeatlesArchive]

10:34 looks like the Sgt. Pepper cover.

[@MightBeMilla]

“wedder yoo tink de uhhhh histerrikal public is uhh,,” wow I love Dutch I’m so proud of this language and country.

[@slaff632]

french+english+deutsch=dutch??😁

[@lorenajaquier6088]

John's body language with Jimmy Nichol is telling..boxed out of the greater group

[@tiablue9106]

At the start of the video, the sign with Jimmy on it is even a different color than the other 3

[@jaydenwhitlen1489]

George’s description of Beatle is on point

[@gidosteinert8931]

4:25 Q: "Any other favorit bands in England?... A: "The Searchers and The Rolling Stones".. i didn´t know that

[@Brinta3]

The original Dutch question was actually “outside of, or in England”. I wonder if they might have named some American artist when asked the question that way.

[@beerborn]

Jimmy's laughter and table pounding reminds me of a co-worker of mine who suffered from Tourette syndrome. When he talked he would sometimes have that wide open mouth and do a few hand and arm twitching.

[@juliasundberg7135]

"What makes a girl good?" Paul: All of them are good. WHYYY MUST HE BE SO CUUTE.

[@davidcostello6222]

John Leaper... gotta love John!

[@marklonteen4791]

He said Leper.

[@mrstevehartman]

I don't think Paul was to happy... at how hard John shoved him at 1:45.

[@johnmartyp2630]

But they look funny together when you see them by they just playing around hahaha no good no good married hahaha

[@sabinewei3041]

I think so too.

[@sexysadie2901]

Nah, they did that all the time.

[@inkey2]

lol.....Harrison: well you need a bit don't you?

[@saariepaarie12]

Aww George 'Kever'

[@notanexistingpersonsosorry]

Jimmie Nicol my beloved ❤

[@elsonngai3578]

Thanks for uploading!! This is awesome!!

[@terryf5131]

That intro:: smirdy do da shurdu Beatles...und schorcu das hixy do BEATLES...and zooby van Beatles...too funny. Thanks for posting!

[@azloii9781]

"We probably will change a little. We wouldn't do anything drastic"

[@ryanwhiteguitar668]

2:08 oh my god that has got to be the most fake laugh I have ever seen in my life. That's worse than jimmy fallon.

[@сиднипрескотт-щ3л]

LMAAAAOOOOO

[@stangorarr]

I think he’s just extraordinarily drunk. Wouldn’t surprise me.

[@MrFreckling]

Jimmy Nicole looking like jimmy Fallon with this fake laughing lmao I'm so weak!!!!!

[@rogerolin2432]

Dub [e-mail]

[@rogerolin2432]

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[@lifesjourney9801]

Dub maybe nervous

[@elkhanhamet2561]

Jimmy in this interview showed a pure class!!!

[@jo_darel]

I think it's cute how Paul seemed the most bothered of them when ppl spoke in dutch and they missed half a conversation.. my control freak beauty 💕

[@lakemaniac]

they totally boxed out Nicol.

[@marklonteen4791]

What did you expect? Their hearts and thoughts were with Ringo.

[@Krabadaque]

John Leopard! Haha!

[@MaccaLives]

Actually, he says Leper, not Leopard.

[@Marco-HidalgoMusicRecords]

6:38 No way the kid just asked if they played any other instrument and then everybody laughs!! Come on!! lol😆😆

[@gijsvanommenn]

its the way he says it, he has a classic dutch countryside accent which sounds funny and came out of the blue

[@florimond1816]

@@gijsvanommennAmsterdams accent, niet van het platteland

[@doriandriver7968]

George "they always have ballads sometimes" Harrison

[@jonmelon9792]

11.25 John's stare at Jimmy is like, " Why are YOU here?"

[@artgecko]

The look on John and Paul when Jimmy speaks is 'KNOW YOUR PLACE'

[@carlosantuckwell]

Wow, the Dutch interviewers (the kids were all right - a bit naive compared to their UK & American peers) were so uptight. They certainly needed the 60's revolution (largely begun by Dylan and The Beatles) to free them up a bit.

[@GoesWithTheNameOfGTJ]

Haha and they say they wouldn't change drastically in style of music!! They skipped 100 years in only 10 if you ask me :)

[@jayanxiety]

Unlike former drummer Pete Best, the Beatles actually had nothing but good things to say about Jimmy. He himself says that the noys were so good to him and thats why he's never attempted to capitalize on his brief tender with the biggest band of all time. The Beatles never forgot Jimmy and the Sgt. Pepper song, "Getting Better" was inspired by him.

[@retrothingz]

Jimmy was a very good, hard driving and dynamic drummer and a better personality than Pete Best

[@imkyle4life]

Poor guy, he's trying so hard to fit in but by doing so he's just looking even more out of place. The funniest part is the way John looks at him throughout the interview like "Why are you here".

[@spy1965]

I get that reply when I ask for autographs

[@6jd.85]

1:28 ¡¡¡Jajajajajajaja!!! ¡La risa de jimmy Nicol!... ¡La gente se ríe y Jimmy golpea la mesa!... 8:01 ¡La risa de Jimmy!... ¡La gente se ríe!... 😂😂😂😂😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣

[@mastercell4727]

Jimmy Nicol era muito legal!

[@lol-oe1md]

11:00 if they only knew :D

[@wolfedavid3700]

the dutch are special people...…...made me welcome ……….1970-73...…….USAF...…...

[@ColtraneTaylor]

Lennon is a real weird looking guy but people have normalized it in their minds. They think only Jimmy or Pete looked out of place.

[@maryhargis8130]

John Lennon was a great looking guy always. What are you seeing?

[@gretchennelson9965]

ColtraneTaylor WIERD looking!! Are you out of your fucking mind? He is gorgeous!

[@iknowimcrap]

@@maryhargis8130 Well to be fair, he did look weird looking with the huge beard and his nose getting weirdly slimmed Out because of heroine snorting but that clearly dissipated

[@sexysadie2901]

​@@iknowimcrap We're talking about the early 60s, he didn't look weird at all. Also his nose was perfect, and he didn't snort it, he shot it.

[@iknowimcrap]

@@sexysadie2901 he never shot he snorted it, look it up

[@johnsain]

As much as they denied it,...they would be using a 'big band' to back them up very soon after....

[@alias3660]

Oops the descriptions wrong. When they introduce themselves its actually George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Leper, and Jimmy Nichol

[@shaide5483]

“No I don’t like marriage.” Shure Paul. But Linda was a good

[@gusterguy01826]

I know Jimmy is getting a lot of hate, but every time he speaks it makes me cringe. John was actually quite nice to him, a couple times during this you can tell he tries to include him subtly.

[@lRedPosion]

I am Dutch and I would happily provide a translation for this interview if you'd like? :)

[@gerrynightingale9045]

*I kinda' feel sorry for Jimmy, that last photo at an airport waiting for the plane to fly home, and no one else there* ( *I don't have enough of whatever it is Starkey has, but if the other 'Three' had gone on tour without me and someone sitting in my place playing 'Live'...that would've been the 'end' for me* ) *I 'd tell the others very quietly when they came home "I'm sorry but I'm leaving because my heart isn't in it anymore and I just can't play ...just tell people my being ill has left me unable to play anymore and let it go at that...don't worry, there are plenty of good drummers around and I won't be playing with anyone else for a couple of years, so no one will know anything's wrong"* ) *I would never play as a 'Beatle' again...ever*

[@sharonrebibo6015]

Love the lack of sophistication of the Dutch teenagers. Jimmy Nicholls was so scared, using his cigarettes as a crutch.

[@sharonrebibo6015]

Sorry Jimmie Nichol. And I'd like to add that apart from that (and anybody would be scared), he was vastly talented. His world could have been so different if he could have been offered therapy for the obvious anti-climax, after he got home to his old life. Even the best of us would have gone down without a little help from our friends. Paul did decide to help him, years later, getting him some work as a session musician which enabled him to have a renaissance and set up a new band. Eventually, however, he succumbed to heavy drugs. A little emotional and psychological therapy and some TLC might have done the trick after the let-down for this talented musician. Was the biopic about Jimmie's life ever made?

[@alexscott730]

I had no idea Mr Spock filled in as their drummer once in a while🤔

[@luissampaio2104]

Yeah, that Pon Farr was very weird

[@NaaHva]

RIP Paul McCartney who died in 1966 and was replaced with William Campbell

[@BrQQQr]

I didn't know Bill Hader played with The Beatles

[@netzahuacoyotl]

John Leper

[@littlemissmello]

The girl from bangkok had sas! Love her!

[@vrinda5303]

The girl from Bangkok was rude. The stupid bitch.

[@marchristiansen]

I wonder what songs they played when they were there?

[@bobdownes162]

Stockings ? George was shocked for a moment.

[@esafueminotaverde]

02:08 Jimmy on fire

[@karaamundson3964]

Jimmy obviously felt like a fish out of water but, oddly, so did George...the questions were almost all directed to J&P. Though George certainly came through with "kever"! So sweet, the child at the end

[@karaamundson3964]

George had quite the quick wit. I think Jimmiy appreciated the quips and so on but rarely had witticisms of his own

[@coragem6894]

8:55 OMG John hahaha!!

[@gwenmcalister888]

This is the most funny video I’ve seen of the Beatles.

[@gtate135]

The proper way to have done this would have been with just the three actual Beatles, bringing Jimmy out is pointless as he was a short term fill and none of the question pertain to him.

[@oldskoolfool141]

I agree, it would've been far more professional, far more relaxed and would've filled Jimmys head with far more reality, maybe Epstein wanted to see him in this setting to get an idea of what to do with him afterwards

[@joesheppards1]

Old Skool Fool yea I bet letting him do stuff like this gave him false hope. Should have left him out of interviews etc

[@Petemonster62]

Someone asked why they did not consider Pete Best to tour Holland in Ringo's place. Pete Best probably would not have been interested & was trying to get his own band going in 1964.

[@thefonzkiss]

He was too crap to drum with them when they were a club band, you think he would have been good enough to headline big arenas with them?

[@angelicaquirarte]

@@thefonzkiss stop justification of your cowards boys , idolize people can't make them duff they way they tread pete was just awful they lost my respect i has for them just be un her place a little bed imagine being used and then you are out i would be totally mad and in a psicologycal way kind of confuse

[@michelelamonaca2187]

Non si possono vedere i Beatles senza Ringo.

[@abcabc-oh9gc]

"do u like dutch girls?" Damn that's a stupid question.

[@сиднипрескотт-щ3л]

They were asked that question in every country

[@Edward1312]

No guitar stands in those days?

[@narayan581]

"John Leppot" xD

[@marklonteen4791]

He says Leper.

[@walterroma7368]

Jimmy held his own. Good man! Shit is he still around? I hope so!

[@anthonybattams6693]

When John Lennon was asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world, he replied 'He's not even the best drummer in the Beatles'. Well a Battersea boy got the chance to stand in for Ringo and was once briefly a Beatle - and here he is in action in this KZbin clip. James George (Jimmie) Nicol was born at 93 Silverthorne Road in 1939, and was a drummer who could play everything from jazz to ska, and rock to big band jazz. Nicol's break came when 'pop guru' Larry Parnes caught Nicol playing with various bands at the 2 i's Coffee Bar and hired him to play with Tommy Steele's younger brother's group, Colin Hicks & the Cabin Boys which were a name on the Italian pop scene. In 1964 Ringo had tonsillitis, just as the Beatles were about to undertake a major foreign tour. Brian Epstein contacted Raye Du-Val, the drummer with Emile Ford and Checkmates, Bobby Graham, a top session drummer and finally Jimmie Nicol who was playing with Georgie Fame. Nicol was reputedly paid a £2500 (£45k nowadays) signing on fee and £2500 a gig. Though the reality is Epstein paid him £500 for the whole tour, confirmed in an interview that Nicol gave to the Daily Mirror in the mid-sixties. At the time, he would have been earning about £30 to £40 pounds a week. At first Nicol was nervous but came into his own, even adding his own touches to the arrangements. As there wasn't time to get Nicol his own stage outfit he wore Ringo Starr's. McCartney sent Ringo a telegram stating; "Hurry up and get well Ringo, Jimmie is wearing out all your suits." Unlike the Beatles, Nicol could wander around the various cities they were playing without being recognised. As for the after-hours partying, Nicol was up for it and, as it was the swinging sixties, there was some hard drinking and womanising. He stated, "I thought I could drink and lay women with the best of them until I caught up with these guys. I was not even close to them when it came to mischief and carrying on.” But when Ringo returned it all ended for Nicol. Towards the end of the tour, he had an intense argument with Epstein, and they fell out. Epstein presented him with a gold watch, engraved with the message 'From the Beatles and Brian Epstein to Jimmy - with appreciation and gratitude', as well as the £500 for his services. Nicol took it as a joke and Nicol brooded about it for the remainder of his career.The Beatles treated Nicol ok. He stated, "They accepted me, but you can't just go into a group like that - they have their own atmosphere, their own sense of humour. It's a little clique, and outsiders just can't break in." Nicol also stated, “The day before I was a Beatle, not one girl would even look me over. The day after, when I was suited up and riding in the back of a limo with Lennon and McCartney, they were dying just to get a touch of me. It was very strange and quite scary.” During the Beatles tour, Lennon and McCartney would often ask Nicol how he was coping, and he would reply, "It's getting better." It was this memory that inspired the song Getting Better. As Nicol had only been out on loan, Georgie Fame expected him to rejoin The Blue Flames however, Nicol decided to reform his original group and poured most of the money he'd earned from the Beatles tour into this project. This move led Fame to state, 'the Beatles tour went to his head'. No matter how hard he tried to cash in on his Beatles fame the success he craved eluded him. He appeared with The Beatles one last time, when his group played on the same bill with The Fourmost, at the Brighton Hippodrome in 1964. Now penniless, Nicol fell back to being a session drummer. However, Nicol's fortunes changed in 1965, when offered the chance to join The Spotniks - a Swedish version of The Shadows. This engagement was just the kick-start his career needed, but when he moved on from marijuana to heavier drugs Nicol's habit became a liability, and was let go during their 1966 tour of Mexico. Nicol remained in Mexico where he had some success. Still thinking that Epstein had him blacklisted Nicol continued to harbour a grudge and smashed the watch he received from the Beatles. Nicol returned to London ever hopeful that stardom was just around the corner. Nicol carried on playing but made his last public appearance playing with The Clarks. He was now bankrupt and back living in the basement of his mum's house in Silverthorne Road. He once stated, “After the money had run low, I thought of cashing-in in some way or other, but the timing wasn’t right, and I didn’t want to step on The Beatles’ toes. They had been damn good for me and to me.” Nicol sadly added "Standing in for Ringo was the worst thing that ever happened to me. Until then I was quite happy earning £30 or £40 a week. After the headlines had died, I began dying too

[@Olivia.Sheree]

Anthony Battams that isn’t true. John never said that so stop spreading that awful rumor.

[@philliproth5012]

You seem to have had a lot of time.Anyway John didn't even say that.

[@MillsyLM]

It was Jasper Carrott who said it on his TV show in the early 80s, I was watching it when he said it.

[@tadeodewiesent8092]

2:08 ¡¡¡Jajaja!!! ¡La risa de Jimmy! ¡Y golpea la mesa! 8:03 ¡Jimmy se ríe, y la gente se ríe, también, al oirlo reír! 9:37 ¡La risa de Jimmy es muy contagiosa! 😄😄😄😆😆😆😅😅😅😀😀😀😁😁😁😂😂😂