On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:39:32 -0500, saki <saki@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Edvado wrote:
>
>> Ok - Very good. But I was looking for something more literal. There
is
>> an error in the statement. It would still be incorrect if I had worded
>> it this way:
>>
>> "Jimmy Nicol appeared with The Beatles while Ringo Starr was in an
>> English hospital."
>
>Okay, I'm trying to be as literal as possible here.
>
>Is your point that Jimmy Nicol appeared with the Beatles while Ringo was
>recovering from tonsillitis and pharyngitis, but that Ringo was not at a
>hospital in London when The Fabs + Jimmy - Ringo played their first gig
>in Copenhagen on June 4?
>
>Most of the U.S. and Canadian regional news articles I'm seeing about
>Ringo's initial collapse are dated June 3. I'm finding it hard to
>conceive of a timeline wherein on one single day (a) Ringo collapses
>during a London photo session; (b) is taken to hospital for a diagnosis;
>(c) Jimmy is suggested by George Martin; (d) Jimmy auditions and is
>accepted; (e) story is re****ted and picked up worldwide by the
>Associated Press, their friends and relations and is in print on the
>same day.
>
>IMHO this is a suspiciously compact chronology, but re****ting was taken
>more seriously in those days, and stranger things have happened.
>
The "one day" scenario does seem very plausible.
They were in the studio recording on 2nd June - and would not have done
that with Jimmy, and
were in Amsterdam on 4th.
--
steve.hat.stephencarter.not.com.but.net
Nothing is Beatle Proof!!
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