Starr later recalled the conversation in an interview. “The boys would like you to join The Beatles. What do you say? <\/p>\n
“I said, ‘no, I’d love to, when?’ And he said, ‘oh, tonight’. I said, ‘I can’t’, this was Wednesday, ‘I can’t come tonight. I’m in a band, I’ll come Saturday’.”<\/p>\n
Thomson said that during the call with Epstein the drummer was told to lose his facial hair.<\/p>\n
“He didn’t want to shave his beard off,” Thomson said laughing. <\/p>\n
“So the beard came off and he got the haircut to match.”<\/p>\n
Madeline Morrison, who worked as a Redcoat at the Clacton camp, said people were surprised when the rumours of Starr joining The Beatles soon started to spread throughout Butlin’s.<\/p>\n
“Rory Storm was a big, big name,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I’ve got playbills where Rory Storm and the Hurricanes were above The Beatles.”<\/p>\n
She added people said he had been taken to the hairdresser: “He’s got the Beatle haircut, he’s joining them.<\/p>\n
“You know, all this sort of stuff would jump round all the camps because we were all villages.”<\/p>\n
After Starr’s departure Rory Storm and the Hurricanes recruited another drummer for the remaining two weeks of the summer season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starr later recalled the conversation in an interview. “The boys would like you to join The Beatles. What…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-806436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}