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Record: Near Mint NM or M- Cover: Excellent EX sharp corners, still in shrink, 4 shrink tear at upper right Los Nicolquinn Los Nicolquinn 1967 RCA Camden CAM-276 12 Mono LP Los NicolquinnLos Nicolquinn1967 RCA Camden LPGRAIL Beatles collectible as documented in the Beatle Who Vanished by Jim Berkenstadt, who contacted me to let me know that this is only the second copy he s ever seen There s no other record of this ever trading hands and here it is in pristine condition MONO Likely won t see it again so don t let this one get by.
RARE ConditionVinyl: Near Mint NM or M- Sleeve: Excellent EX sharp corners, still in shrink, 4 shrink tear at upper right See Item Specifics section above for additional details clickable images enlarge Tracks:Los Nicolquinn ? Los Nicolquinn Label: RCA Camden ? CAM-276 Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono Country: Mexico Released: 1967 Genre: Rock, Pop Style: Psychedelic Rock, Pop Rock Tracklist A1 Cuando El Sol Cae When The Sun Goes Down A2 Mas Alla De Mi Vida Beyond My Life A3 Estoy Perdido I m Lost A4 La Misma Vieja Forma The Same Old Way A5 Sol Negro Black Sun B1 Antojos Whims And Fancies B2 Facil Easy B3 Estoy En Camino I m On My Way B4 Desconocido Unknown B5 Algo Tonto Somethng Stupid Credits Performer Eddie Quinn, Jimmy Nicol Written-By E.
Quinn tracks: A1 to B4 , J.
Nicol tracks: A1 to B4 James George Jimmie / Jimmy Nicol 1 born 3 August 1939 is a British drummer, best known for temporarily replacing Ringo Starr in The Beatles for a series of concerts during the height of Beatlemania in 1964, elevating him from relative obscurity to worldwide fame and then back again in the space of a fortnight.
Nicol had hoped that his association with The Beatles would greatly boost his career, but instead found that the spotlight moved away from him once Starr returned to the group.
His subsequent lack of commercial success led him into bankruptcy in 1965.
After then working with a number of different bands, which included a successful phase with The Spotnicks, he left the music business in 1967 to pursue a variety of entrepreneurial ventures.
Later in his life he became a recluse preferring not to discuss his connection to The Beatles and refusing to seek financial gain from it.
He has a son, Howard, who is a Bafta award-winning sound engineer.
Contents Early career Jimmie Nicol s first professional break came in 1957 when he was talent spotted by Larry Parnes whilst drumming with various bands in London s The 2i s Coffee Bar an era that saw Britain s skiffle dominated music scene giving way to rock and roll, which at that time was being popularised by its Teddy Boy youth.
Parnes then invited Nicol to join Colin Hicks The Cabin Boys whom Parnes co-managed with John Kennedy.
After a brief sojourn playing as part of the original pit band in the Lionel Bart musical Fings Ain t Wot They Used T Be at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, Nicol rejoined Hicks s band for their appearance in the 1958 Italian film documentary Europa Di Notte, breaking them in Italy and subsequently allowing them to tour there extensively.
2 Colin Hicks is the younger brother of English entertainer Tommy Steele, whom Parnes also managed.
In 1960 Larry Parnes hired The Silver Beetles for a week to back another of his performers, Johnny Gentle, on a mini-tour of Scotland.
2 During the early sixties Nicol went on to play for a number of artists including: Vince Eager, Oscar Rabin, and Cyril Stapleton.
He was kept in regular work through a well known session fixer during that period, Charlie Katz.
He has cited drummer Phil Seamen and saxophonist Cannonball Adderley as being influential.
3 In 1964 Nicol helped to form The Shubdubs along with ex-Merseybeats bassist Bob Garner, a jazz line-up similar in musical style to Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames another group with whom Nicol had sat-in when they were the resident house band at London s now defunct Flamingo Jazz Club .
Other members of The Shubdubs were: Tony Allen vocals , Johnny Harris trumpet , Quincy Davis tenor saxophone , and Roger Coulam organ - who went on to form Blue Mink .
It was at this point that he received a telephone call from George Martin, The Beatles producer.
Nicol recalled: I was having a bit of a lie down after lunch when the phone rang.
4 With The Beatles McCartney, Harrison, Lennon and Nicol in Holland on 5 June 1964 When Ringo Starr collapsed and was hospitalised on 3 June 1964, with tonsillitis on the eve of The Beatles 1964 Australasian tour the Beatles manager Brian Epstein and their producer George Martin urgently discussed the feasibility of using a stand-in drummer rather than cancelling part of the tour.
Martin suggested Jimmie Nicol as he had recently used him on a Tommy Quickly recording session.
4 Nicol had also, as part of an uncredited session band, drummed on a Top Six budget label album and an extended play single three tracks on each side of Beatle cover versions marketed as Teenagers Choice and entitled Beatlemania which meant that he already knew the songs and their arrangements.
Producer Bill Wellings and the aforementioned Shubdubs member Johnny Harris freelancing as an arranger and composer were responsible for putting together alternative budget cover versions of songs taken from the British Hit Parade aimed at cash-strapped teenagers: The idea was for me to try and guess which six songs would be topping the charts about a month ahead.
I would do the arrangements and then go into the studio and record sound a-likes the first EP extended play released got to number 30 in the charts.
Jimmie was on drums and, as you can imagine, we covered a lot of the Beatles songs Harris said.
5 Although John Lennon and Paul McCartney quickly accepted the idea of using an understudy, George Harrison threatened to pull out of the tour, telling Epstein and Martin: If Ringo s not going, then neither am I.
You can find two replacements .
6 George Martin: They nearly didn t do the Australia tour.
George is a very loyal person.
It took all of Brian s and my persuasion to tell George that if he didn t do it he was letting everybody down .
7 Tony Barrow, who was the Beatles press officer at the time, later commented: Brian saw it as the lesser of two evils cancel the tour and upset thousands of fans or continue and upset the Beatles.
8 Ringo Starr: It was very strange, them going off without me.
They d taken Jimmie Nicol and I thought they didn t love me any more all that stuff went through my head .
7 The arrangements were made very quickly, from a telephone call to Nicol at his home in west London inviting him to attend an audition-rehearsal at Abbey Road Studios 9 to packing his bags, all in the same day.
10 At a press conference a reporter asked John Lennon why Pete Best, who had been The Beatles original drummer, was not given the opportunity of replacing Ringo, to which Lennon replied: He s got his own group Pete Best the All Stars , and it might have looked as if we were taking him back, which is not good for him.
11 Later, on the subject of remuneration, Nicol recalled: When Brian Epstein talked of money in front of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison I got very, very nervous.
They paid me 2,500 per gig and a 2,500 signing bonus.
Now, that floored me.
When John spoke up in a protest by saying Good God, Brian, you ll make the chap crazy , I thought it was over.
But no sooner had he said that when he said, Give him ten thousand Everyone laughed and I felt a hell of a lot better.
That night I couldn t sleep a wink.
I was a fcking Beatle These sums of money, which were vast in 1964, are unverified.
Nicol s first concert with The Beatles took place just 27 hours later on 4 June at the KB Hallen in Copenhagen, Denmark.
He was given the distinctive Beatle moptop hairstyle, put on Ringo Starr s suit despite the trousers being too short and went on stage to an audience of 4,500 Beatles fans.
McCartney recalled: He was sitting up on this rostrum just eyeing up all the women.
We d start She Loves You : counting in one, two, nothing, one, two, and still nothing Their set was reduced from eleven songs to ten, dropping Ringo Starr s vocal spot of I Wanna Be Your Man .
8 McCartney teasingly sent Starr a telegram saying: Hurry up and get well Ringo, Jimmy is wearing out all your suits.
4 Commenting later on the fickle nature of his brief celebrity, Nicol reflected: The day before I was a Beatle, girls weren t interested in me at all.
The day after, with the suit and the Beatle cut, riding in the back of the limo with John and Paul, they were dying to get a touch of me.
It was very strange and quite scary.
He was also able to shed some light on how they passed the time between shows: I thought I could drink and lay women with the best of them until I caught up with these guys.
12 In Holland Nicol and Lennon allegedly spent a whole night at a brothel.
8 Lennon said: It was some kind of scene on the road.
Satyricon There s photographs of me grovelling about, crawling about Amsterdam on my knees, coming out of whore houses, and people saying Good morning John .
The police escorted me to these places because they never wanted a big scandal.
When we hit town, we hit it we were not pissing about.
We had the women .
They were great.
We didn t call them groupies, then I ve forgotten what we called them, something like slags .
12 7 The Beatles were by then becoming more restricted by their increasing fame, spending most of their free time inside hotel suites.
But Nicol discovered that, beyond acting as a Beatle, he could behave much as any tourist could: I often went out alone.
Hardly anybody recognised me and I was able to wander around.
In Hong Kong I went to see the thousands of people who live on little boats in the harbour.
I saw the refugees in Kowloon, and I visited a nightclub.
I like to see life.
A Beatle could never really do that .
13 Nicol played a total of eight shows until Starr rejoined the group in Melbourne, Australia, on 14 June.
He was unable to say goodbye to The Beatles as they were still asleep when he left, and he did not want to disturb them.
At Melbourne airport, Brian Epstein presented him with a cheque for 500 and a gold Eterna-matic wrist watch inscribed: From The Beatles and Brian Epstein to Jimmy - with appreciation and gratitude.
4 George Martin later paid tribute to Nicol whilst acknowledging the problems he experienced in trying to re-adjust to a normal life again: Jimmie Nicol was a very good drummer who came along and learnt Ringo s parts very well.
He did the job excellently, and faded into obscurity immediately afterwards .
7 Paul McCartney: It wasn t an easy thing for Jimmy to stand in for Ringo, and have all that fame thrust upon him.
And the minute his tenure was over, he wasn t famous any more .
Nicol himself expressed his disillusionment several years later: 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 died, I began dying too.
8 He resisted the temptation to sell his story, stating in a rare 1987 interview: After the money ran 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.
Later career and life Nicol reformed the Shubdubs, renaming themselves Jimmy Nicol and the Shubdubs.
They released two singles Husky / Don t Come Back , followed by Humpty Dumpty / Night Train neither of which was a commercial success.
He was later called upon again to stand in for an ailing drummer when Dave Clark of The Dave Clark Five fell ill, replacing him in the band for a season in Blackpool, Lancashire.
4 Whilst there Nicol was reminded of just how popular, albeit briefly, he had been as a stand-in Beatle receiving a bundle of 5,000 fan letters passed on to him from an Australian radio disc jockey.
Nicol sent a message back thanking the fans, promising that he would one day return to Australia permanently.
4 He was later reunited with The Beatles when his band was set down on the same bill as them and The Fourmost on 12 July 1964 at the Hippodrome in Brighton.
In 1965 Nicol declared bankruptcy with debts of 4,066, nine months after being a temporary Beatle.
8 Later that year he joined the successful Swedish group The Spotnicks, recording with them and twice touring the world.
He left them in 1967, spending time in Mexico studying samba and bossa nova rhythms, whilst also diversifying into business.
In 1975 he returned to England and became involved with housing renovations.
In 1988 it was rumoured that Nicol had died, 3 but an article in 2005 by the Daily Mail confirmed that he was still alive and living in London as a recluse.
Legacy During Nicol s brief time with the Beatles, Lennon and McCartney would often ask him how he felt he was coping, to which his reply would always be It s getting better.
Three years later, McCartney was walking his dog, Martha, with Hunter Davies, the Beatles official biographer, when the sun came out.
McCartney remarked that the weather was getting better, and began to laugh, remembering Nicol.
This event inspired the song Getting Better on 1967 s Sgt.
Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
14 McCartney again makes reference to Nicol on the Let It Be tapes from 1969, saying: I think you ll find we re not going abroad cause Ringo just said he doesn t want to go abroad.
You know, he put his foot down.
Although Jimmie Nicol might go abroad.
Discography and performance history 1950s Choir boy at Honeywell Road School, Wandsworth, in London.
The Boys Brigade percussion .
Army Cadet Military Band percussion and xylophone .
For a short time, Nicol also worked as a drum repairer for UK musical instrument distributor Boosey Hawkes.
1957/1958 Colin Hicks The Cabin Boys.
Colin Hicks is the younger brother of British rock n roll star Tommy Steele .
Singles released: Pye 7N15114 Wild Eyes And Tender Lips / Empty Arms Blues Pye 7N15125 La Dee Dah / Wasteland Pye 7N15163 Little Boy Blue / Jamabalaya 1959/1960 Vince Eager and the Quiet Three.
1960 Oscar Rabin Band.
1961 Cyril Stapleton Big Band.
1961-1963 Session work including jobs with musicians from the orchestras of Ted Heath and Johnny Dankworth .
1964 The Shubdubs.
Singles released: Humpty Dumpty / Night Train - Pye 7N15623 2/1964 / US: Mar-Mar Records 313 1964 Husky / Please Come Back - Pye 7N15666 6/1964 credited to Jimmy Nicol Baby Please Don t Go / Shubdubery - Pye 7N15699 10/1964 1964 April / May Touring with Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames.
1964 June The Beatles as temporary stand in for Ringo Starr .
4 June 1964: KB Hallen, Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark.
5 June 1964: Treslong, Hillegom, Holland, recording TV show, VARA .
6 June 1964: Auction Hall Veilinghal , Blokker, Holland.
9 June 1964: Princess Theatre, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
12 June 1964: Centennial Hall, Adelaide, Australia.
13 June 1964: Centennial Hall, Adelaide, Australia.
1964/1965 Touring as: Jimmy Nicol The Shubdubs Solo single release as: The Sound of Jimmy Nicol Sweet Clementine / Roaring Blue - Decca F12017 1965-1967 The Spotnicks.
Single release by: The Spotnicks Introducing Jimmie Nicol Husky / Drum Diddley - SweDisc SWES 1111 1967 Nicol lived in Mexico working with samba bossa nova groups.
He married and had a son, Howard, who in the 1990s won an award for his work as sound engineer on a BBC collection of Beatles recordings.
1969 Jimmie Nicol Show: Jumpin Jack Flash / Era Psicodelica Del A Go Go - Discos Orfeon LP-E-12-623 Mexico LP Sung in Spanish .
1971 Blue Rain Mexican rock group recording in Nicol s house .
In Billboard from July 22, 1967 the following you could read: Jimmy Nicol and Eddie Quinn RCA Victor Mexicana have formed a group they call Los Nicolquinn to present shows throughout Mexico and in Southern Startes of the U.S.
From this group appeared one LP on the RCA Victor label in Mexico and Jimmy also has made at least one solo single for the label.
In Mexico was Jimmie since 1967 working with a samba bossa-nova group.
He married and had a son, Howard, who was to win a prestigious award for his work as sound engineer on a BBC collection of Beatles recordings in the 1990s.
In 1969 Jimmie recorded Jumpin Jack Flash Rolling Stones sung in Spanish for Discos Orfeon with his own band Jimmie Nicol Show .
Jimmie Nicol: Temporary Beatle In June 1964, the Beatles were to tour Scandanavia, Holland, the Far East and Australia.
But on June 3, the day before the tour, Ringo collapsed at an early morning photo session for the Saturday Evening Post at a portrait studio in Barnes, London.
He had a 102-degree fever and tonsilitis and was rushed to the hospital.
While having his tonsils out in London, he was temporarily replaced for the Denmark and Holland concert dates by shy 24-year-old session drummer Jimmie Nicol.
Jimmie was interviewed in 1987 about his time with the Beatles, and it offers some very rare and interesting insights into a side of the Beatles very few if any other people ever saw: Interviewer: Why haven t you written a book about your time with the Beatles? Nicol: Anyone can write a book about someone who is famous that they met or knew.
There is so much trash written about the Beatles and not one shows their good side.
I guess I could very well write a book.
Lord knows, I could use the money.
I guess I really don t know.
I think maybe my angle is not strong enough.
I: What did you think of Ringo Starr when you first heard and saw him drumming? N: I thought he was good, innovative and all.
By that time, I was getting pretty good at the traps, and Ringo was making the drums an interesting instrument for all aspiring musicians.
But what I liked most about Ringo is that he was probably the first drummer known by name.
He is also the first drummer to have girls cry their eyes out to get a touch of.
Another thing, musically I mean, that I liked was his style of rim shots on the snare then onto the shell to-turn.
In Ticket To Ride , he used it as an accent of George s chords and in She Loves You , he used it as a lead-in to the bridge.
He was different.
I loved how he used to attack the hi-hat instead of just pussy-footing about with them.
The Beatles break-in a new drummer I: What were you doing just before that phone call which put you in the limelight as the newest Beatle? N: I was playing around in a small band the Shubdubs and in the studio wherever I was needed.
I was actually making money as a drummer, something many were not doing...
Brian called me and I went down to his office.
I nearly sh t in me pants when he told me he wanted me to play for the Beatles in place of Ringo, at least until he was well enough to rejoin the group somewhere in the tour.
I was truly shocked by it all...
Brian ...
asked me if I had practiced with any of the Beatles hits and I said I had.
It was 1964 and the Beatles had so many hits but they had a hell of a lot of good album songs as well.
I: You speak of the Beatles with almost a reverent tone.
Why? N: I am not alone, am I? There is just a feeling I get when I hear their songs.
Not just because I played with them but that like millions of other fans, it was part of my...
life.
Me dad listened to Frank Sinatra and I listened to the Beatles.
Both have stood the test of time.
I: What happened then? N: Well, Brian had all of the Beatles--with the exception of Ringo who was already in the hospital getting the swelling down in his throat from his inflamed tonsils--in an outer office.
In a passing motion, he waved them in to meet me.
I was floored.
The Beatles were actually there to meet me Me mind was blown.
I would have played for free for as long as they needed me.
I shook all their hands and blurted out tones of admiration that I think made them embarrassed.
They were very nice.
When Brian talked of money in front of them, I got very, very nervous.
They paid me 2,500 pounds per gig and a 2,500 pounds signing bonus.
Now, that floored me.
When John spoke up in a protest by saying Good God, Brian, you ll make the chap crazy , I thought it was over.
But no sooner had he said that when he said, Give him 10,000 Everyone laughed and I felt a hell of a lot better.
That night I couldn t sleep a wink.
I was a f---ing Beatle I: When did the real change start for you? N: When a wardrobe lady came over to me flat and a hairdresser cut me hair in a mop-top.
In the mirror, I cut a mean figure as the new Beatle.
I was on top of the music world, for sure.
I: How did the Beatles treat you? N: Fantastic.
Even Ringo kidded me when they took me over to introduce me as his replacement.
There were a lot of jokes over that scene.
John was super nice as well as Paul and George, with George being about as nervous as I of the tour.
I: What about the fan treatment? N: Like day and night.
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 John Lennon and Paul McCartney, they were dying just to get a touch of me.
Strange and scary all at once.
It s hard to describe the feeling but I can tell you it can go to your head.
I see why so many famous people kill themselves.
There is so little sanity to it all.
I: How did the gigs go with you on drums? N: Good.
A lot of drummer fans were disappointed, I m sure, because they wanted to see Ringo.
John would introduce me at some of the concerts and at some he wouldn t.
Also, I think I was accepted by most of the fans cause I fit in.
I wore the suit and hair and tried to play like Ringo in his nonchalant fashion.
I also bowed when the rest of them did and that went over big.
I: How long did you play with the Beatles? N: I started on June 4 of 64 in Copenhagen, Denmark, our first gig of the tour.
I played until Ringo joined us in Melbourne, Australia.
I was praying he would get well at the same time I was hoping he would not want to come back.
I was having a ball, truly.
Rare photo of all 5 Beatles together I: How much money did they pay you for being a Beatle? N: I was paid unbelievable So much that I practically lived off of it for a couple of years.
I was paid in the neighbourhood of 40,000 pounds all told.
I: Give me some insight into Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison, and how you saw them.
N: To begin with, Paul was not the clean chap he wanted the world to see.
His love of blonde women and his general dislike of the crowds are not told.
John, on the other hand, enjoyed the people, but used his sense of humour to ward off any he didn t care for.
He also drunk in excess.
In Denmark, for example, his head was a balloon He had drunk so much the night before, he was on stage sweating like a pig.
George was not shy at all, as the press had tried to paint him.
He was into sex as well as partying all night with the rest of us.
I was not even close to them when it came to mischief and carrying on.
I thought I could drink and lay women with the best of them until I met up with these guys But I did as they did.
To sit here and list each and every little thing we did in such a short time, well, I just can t do it...
The Beatles living life to the fullest.
I just thank God that I was there to live it with them.
Needless to say, the 300,000 people screaming at me and tearing me coat off to the skin was a trip in itself.
I: Why do you think the Beatles stopped touring so early in their career? N: That s easy.
Demands fans placed on them were huge.
They sickened of the way they were treated, all the groping and such.
They stopped because they were musicians, not performers.
It became boring, then dangerous.
They felt it wasn t worth it all.
They could sell their records and make a hell of a lot more money without all the hassle.
I: Did they like you? N: I think so.
But after Ringo returned, they changed.
It was like welcoming a close member of the family back.
They treated me with nothing but respect as a musician.
And I think they thought I was very good.
John once told me I was better than Ringo but that I just missed the ship.
When I was on the plane back to London, I felt like a bastard child being sent back home from a family that didn t want me.
When you have had the best, you can t accept anything else.
I: Did you ever see them after the tour? N: I had a band and Brian put us on the same bill with the Beatles and the Fourmost one night.
Backstage, we talked, but the wind had changed since we last saw each oter.
They were pleasant.
I: Why do you think you were forgotten after all this? N: When the fans forget, they forget forever.
After the Beatles thing was over for me, I played around for a few years, then got away from the music scene.
I mean, when you ve played with the best, the rest is just, well, the rest.
I: Any regrets? N: None.
Oh, after the money ran low, I thought of cashing in in some way to 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.
Upon Jimmie s return, his group the Shubdubs issued the single Husky/Don t Come Back, but it failed to chart.
The Shubdubs later disbanded, after which Jimmie moved to South America.
He also lived in Australia for a time, finally moving back to London.
HOW COULD DRUMMER JIMMIE NICOL SIMPLY VANISH AFTER PLAYING WITH THE BEATLES IN 1964? The Beatle Who Vanished is the first historical account of Jimmie Nicol, an unknown drummer whose journey from humble beginnings to saving The Beatles first world tour was only one part of his legend.
Though his 13 days of fame made headlines, the true mystery of Nicol s story is riddled with blacklisting, betrayal, drugs, divorce, bankruptcy and an eventual disappearance that led many to question whether he is dead or alive.
Discover the incredible details of a Beatles story never before revealed Draws on new documentary evidence Interviews with The Beatles, Nicol and eyewitnesses Inner circle tour accounts of Nicol and The Beatles Uncovers the secrets behind his post-Beatles career and disappearance Over 100 rare archival photographs and memorabilia illustrations Features a Foreword by Former Beatles Bass Player, Chas Newby The new Beatles book, The Beatle Who Vanished, reveals that drummer Jimmie Nicol led a very secretive life.
One that took him to Mexico City in 1965, where he settled, married, divorced, and carried on a diverse professional career.
The Amazon Best Seller, is now the subject of an indepth radio documentary on Nicol s career at El Circulo Beatle.
While living in Mexico, from 1965 to 1975, Nicol served as A R man for RCA Victor Mexico, recorded as Los Nicolquinn, composed film sountracks, created a button factory, taught at the technical college, appeared on the radio and built his own studio.
He toured and sat in with several bands including: Abraxas, with wife Julia, Los Checkmates, Blue Rain and Los Nicolquinn among others.
Jimmy Nicol Btls - jimmy nicol drums Interesante tema, sobre el Beatle despreciado que tuvo sus cinco minutos de gloria en pleno auge de la beatleman a....les dejo al final, tres enlaces con buenos reportajes mas que interesantes.....
Lo que pocos saben, es que tras su paso fugaz con Los Beatles, se reincorpora Ringo, le dan su anillo, un peque o premio por la suplencia, y se desaparece.....de la historia de la Beatleman a.
El regresa a Inglaterra, y ya era m sico de estudio antes de llegar a los Beatles, y tras ese breve xito en su curr culum le dieron trabajo pero no peg , y por desgracia, ese paso por Los Beatles le trajo un poco de desgracia, ya que al poco tiempo, cay en bancarrota provocando su divorcio.....y decide irse de Inglaterra a empezar de cero.
Llega a M xico y publica ah un LP como Los Nicolquinn para los discos RCA...y a fines de los 60 tuvo otro grupo, Jimmy Nicol Show ....viviendo una larga temporada en M xico.
En este periodo, se une al super grupo sueco The Spotnicks y realiza una exitosa temporada en M xico y hacen giras tambi n en otros pa ses, incluidos Jap n.
Para ver mas sobre Jimmy, visiten estos dos blogs....espero les guste la informaci n.
Atte: GZ Jimmy Nicol Btls - jimmy nicol drums Interesting topic on the Beatle despised that took her five minutes of fame at the height of Beatlemania ....
I leave at the end, three bonds with good more than interesting stories .....
What few know is that after his brief stint with The Beatles, Ringo rejoins, give him his ring, a small prize for the substitution, and disappears .....
History of Beatlemania.
He returns to England, and it was a studio musician before coming to the Beatles, and shortly after that success on his resume work but gave no hits, and unfortunately, that step by the Beatles brought a little sadly, and which soon fell into bankruptcy .....
causing their divorce and decides to leave England to start from scratch.
Mexico reaches there and publishes an LP as The Nicolquinn for RCA records ...
and late 60s had another group, Jimmy Nicol Show ....
living a long time in Mexico.
In this period, joins the Super Swedish group The Spotnicks and makes a successful season in Mexico and do tours in other countries, including Japan.
Over the past two decades, author Jim Berkenstadt has aptly earned his reputation as The Rock N Roll Detective, investigating rock music s greatest mysteries.
With his latest book, The Beatle Who Vanished, he has come face-to-face with perhaps his greatest challenge -- to chronicle the life of one of the most enigmatic musicians of the rock era.
Within its 236 pages, he lifts the veil of secrecy on the only musician to ever be recruited to replace a Beatle after the band had achieved worldwide fame.
I m speaking, of course, about Jimmie Nicol, the drummer who was plucked from relative obscurity one day in June 1964, became a member of rock s greatest band the following day and a mere thirteen days later was driven to an airport, given a gold watch and sent packing.
But this isn t just about Nicol s fleeting days of fame with The Beatles, though those days are described in great detail.
This is the story of a restless soul who, throughout his life and professional career, very much marched to his own drumbeat.
The Beatle Who Vanished traces Nicol s roots, from his childhood in Battersea to his early days as a drum repairer and his rise on the London coffee bar scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s specifically at Soho s famous 2i s Coffee Bar .
Berkenstadt paints a fascinating, in-depth picture of club life as well as life on tour in those fledgling days of Nicol s music career.
The reader will learn how he became widely acknowledged as one of the most versatile, talented, respected and supremely powerful drummers of his day, playing everything from skiffle and ska to blues and big band.
So vital was Nicol to every band he joined, that he often became its most prominent player, sometimes overshadowing the headlining member.
Without giving much away, it was his reputation in the studio which later led to The Call from producer George Martin on behalf of The Beatles.
The band was a day away from starting their first world tour when Ringo Starr suddenly collapsed and was hospitalized with tonsillitis and pharyngitis.
Nicol filled the bill and the rest is history.
Or is it? Until now, Nicol has been little more than a footnote in Beatles biographies.
With the publication of The Beatle Who Vanished, Beatles fans now have the unexpurgated story of a man whose life after The Beatles was as tumultuous as it was during his brief tenure with them -- 13 days that proved to be as much of a curse for him as a blessing.
The book has all the elements of a good mystery as Nicol struggles with self-delusion, betrayal, disappointment, resentment, despair, and, ultimately, self-imposed exile.
It s the real-life tale of a virtuoso drummer working to forge his own way in a business he felt turned its back on him.
The Beatle Who Vanished is one riveting read -- a previously unexplored, never-before-told chapter in the group s history.
But one doesn t have to be a fan to enjoy this mysterious true story of a temporary Beatle who vanished .
The book s secondary theme will intrigue the reader with what happens to a maverick drummer who enjoys 15 minutes of fame and then endeavors for the rest of his life to live up to that brief moment, searching desperately for his own identity as a musician, before disappearing...This is a fascinating and well-written book.
While an interesting, self-motivated and talented musician, one gets the sense that Jimmy Nicol s downfall throughout his career was his exaggerated sense of importance and single-minded chase for stardom.
Berkenstadt s description of Jimmy s post-Beatles career suggests that Jimmy believed he was truly the fifth Beatle.
As a result he often acted the part, wanting to be the featured artist in whatever group he was in...the leader both creatively and otherwise.
Of particular interest to me was Nicol s obsession with the idea that he was as good as, if not better than Ringo and that he could have replaced Ringo If not Ringo s replacement, Jimmy believed he deserved to be equally rich and famous.
Unfortunately, he never seemed to accept his role in his inability to become the next big thing, instead believing that Brian Epstein ? was somehow working behind the scene to sabotage his career.
As every Beatles fan knows, the Beatles prided themselves on being a democracy...four equal partners or a square with four equal corners as I believe Paul McCartney put it.
They were a family.
Ironically, if any one of the Beatles could be called the Easygoing Beatle it was Ringo, and I m quite sure that he was loved by the other Beatles especially for that quality.
Jimmy Nicol s sense that he could replace Ringo in the Beatles because of his drumming skills was a true misread of his role on the tour and of how tight the Beatles had already become.
Jimmy was always trying to change musical direction and lead the way.
It seems very unlikely that John and Paul would have allowed Jimmy the ability to persuade their musical direction...they didn t really even give George enough of an opportunity to do that The shame of it all is that Berkenstadt describes Jimmy as very talented and driven and suggests that his music was pretty good.
Despite his foibles, I found myself rooting for him to finally find success.
Perhaps if he was a little more open-minded to being directed and influenced by others rather than insisting on being the leader...who knows? Maybe we would still be listening to Spotnik records alongside Beatle records? All in all, The Beatle Who Vanished is an excellent , well-researched historical account of a fascinating yet neglected piece of the Beatles story.
Beatles fans and music fans alike will greatly enjoy this book.
Oh...what eventually became of Nicol? Well, I don t want to spoil it for you.
You ll have to pick it up for yourself and see A great read To most Beatles fans Jimmie Nicol is merely a footnote in the history of the band - a drummer asked to fill in during the start of their first world tour when Ringo was taken ill.
He played with them for thirteen days, the concerts taking him from Denmark and the Netherlands, to Hong Kong and Australia and from relative obscurity to the madness of Beatlemania.
George Harrison was quite scathing in the Anthology about going on tour without Ringo, but with the tour literally days away and tickets sold, presumably Brian Epstein felt that cancelling was not an option.
In this really fascinating account of Jimmie Nicol s life, the author not only tells the story of his career as a musician, but of how those thirteen days affected everything that followed.
The beginning of Jimmie s career saw him on many of the Larry Parne s package tours, including the 1960 tour with Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran.
He was a session musician and played with Georgie Fame, among others.
When the Beatles needed a drummer the author explains how their paths had already crossed and he was a natural choice to fill in.
Sadly, the fleeting moments of superstardom seemed to bring him more problems than success.
It was nice to read that both George and Paul tried to make contact indeed, in Paul s case offer help even if it was rebuffed.
However, this book gives as full an account of the drummers whole career as he could have wished and even turns into a detective story as Jim Berkenstadt tries to discover his whereabouts.
For fans this is an intriguing and fascinating read about the man who wished he could stay a Beatle.
Many people have been given the title the fifth Beatle.
Record producer George Martin is high on that list, as are manager Brian Epstein, keyboard player Billy Preston and New York disc jockey Murray the K, who did much to promote the Fab Four when they first invaded these shores in the early 1960s.
Author, publisher and music historian Jim Berkenstadt has yet another nominee: Jimmie Nicol, the drummer who replaced a tonsillitis-stricken Ringo for 13 days when the Beatles embarked on their first world tour in 1964.
The book, The Beatle Who Vanished thebeatlewhovanished.com, 19.95 , painstakingly follows the life of Nicol, before, during and after his brush with the Beatles.
He understandably winds up with a love/hate relationship regarding his brief glimpse of musical immortality.
Berkenstadt, 56, who lives in Madison, Wis., and who bills himself as the rock n roll detective became a Beatles fanatic ever since he saw them on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.
The one-sentence mention of Nicol in Beatles trivia books caught Berkenstadt s eye and riveted him.
Nicol had been a popular session drummer on the London scene for record labels such as Decca and Pye in the early 60s.
When he received the famous phone call on Wednesday, June 3, 1964 from George Martin, he had no idea how much it would change his life.
He would perform with the Beatles in the Netherlands, Southeast Asia and Australia, a total of 10 shows in 13 days.
I always wondered why this footnote in Beatles history had never been fleshed out more in Beatles books and not at all in British rock books, he said on the phone from his home in Madison.
I thought it would be an interesting exercise to unravel the mysteries behind the little drummer.
Through copious research, which included trips to England, Australia and the Netherlands, the author became ever more curious about this enigmatic and somewhat tragic character.
It was amazing to find that he dealt with his post-Beatles 15 minutes by vanishing whenever he wanted to restart his career or life.
Always, without saying goodbye to friends and family.
And he sometimes left false trails.
Very mysterious, considering everyone loved the guy.
The London pop music scene of the early 60s was a small world.
Cleveland-based artist manager David Spero recently recalled asking Ringo how Nicol had been selected.
We were all mates, Ringo told him.
After returning from his whirlwind two weeks with the most famous rock band in the world, Nicol tried to capitalize on his shining moment in the celebrity sun.
He got a record deal, formed a band with the unfortunate name of The Shubdubs, and bought a new Jaguar sports car he couldn t afford.
Within the year he was broke, unemployed, divorced and living with his mom.
This would begin a pattern of extreme ups and downs that would repeat throughout his life.
The more Berkenstadt discovered, the more sympathetic he became.
I came to appreciate what enormous pressure he went through to help keep the Beatles first world tour afloat, he said.
It wasn t hard to understand the difficulty one must have dealing with having touched the sun with the Beatles and having to fall back to earth as an everyman.
Nicol was squeaking out a living playing with the still-popular Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames when he got a call from a Swedish pop band called the Spotnicks.
Two world tours with the Swedes would eventually land Nicol in Mexico City where the band would fire him for alleged drug use.
Nicol fell in with another musician named Eddie Quinn, and the two convinced Mexican record executives to sign them for a record deal that would produce the forgettable concept album entitled Los Nicolquinn.
It was no Sgt.
Pepper, laughed Berkenstadt.
What Nicol lacked in talent he made up for in energy and ambition.
He crisscrossed continents looking for new musical opportunities, sometimes attending Beatles conventions, and eventually fell back on a remodeling business.
Berkenstadt plays a bit of a cat-and-mouse game with the reader about whether Nicol is currently dead or alive.
There will be no spoilers here.
This explains the title The Beatle Who Vanished.
But can someone for whom no one is really looking actually vanish? Late in the book there is talk about a book deal in which Nicol would write about his life.
The Beatle Who Vanished will have to do for now.
And it does quite well, telling the story about a fascinating asterisk in Beatles history.
But along with George Martin and Billy Preston, does Jimmie Nicol qualify for the title? Maybe more than the others.
For one day in Melbourne, said Berkenstadt, when Ringo returned and Jimmie was present, he was a 5th Beatle in photos.
LOS NICOLQUINN Jimmy Nicol LP NM MONO 67 BEATLES obscure MEXICO ONLY psych HEAR psych acid garage Mexican rock While living in Mexico, from 1965 to 1975, Nicol served as A R man for RCA Victor Mexico, recorded as Los Nicolquinn, composed film sountracks, created a button factory, taught at the technical college, appeared on the radio and built his own studio.
He toured and sat in with s Jimmy replaced Ringo at the opening of the Beatles 1964 tour..playing in Europe and one date in Australia..and so far as the world was concerned, disappeared back into the obscurity from which he had briefly emerged.
As is usually the case, the truth is a whole lot different.
Jimmys recording career began in the late 1950s when between 1957 and 1959 he was the drummer with Colin Hicks and the Cabin Boys.
Colin actually being the brother of a more famous artist, Tommy Steele.
Before that, he had been a drum repairer/technician with Boosey and Hawkes and had also occupied the drummers seat in a few very well known big bands,1960: The Oscar Rabin Band.
1961: and The Cyril Stapleton Big Band.
Following his departure from the Cabin Boys,he joined another fledgling Rock and Roll outfit Vince Eager and the Quite Three until 1960.
The trail then grows cold so far as recordings are concerned as Jimmy seems to have been involved almost exclisively in session work , including jobs with musicians from the orchestras of Ted Heath and Johnny Dankworth.
Rumours persist that he was a member of Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames in 1964, and whilst it is true that he played at the Flamingo Club, where the Blue Flames were the House Band..there is no trace of him on the recordings that they made at the time.
However in 1964 he formed his own band , The Shubdubs whilst continuing his session work.
He had worked for George Martin on both a Tommy Quickly recording session and possibly others on the NEMS roster.A set of recordings entitled Beatlemania featuring a number of Beatles songs also had Jimmie on drums..
When Ringo was hospitalised, it was George who recommended him to Brian Epstein as a replacement.
He rehearsed with John Paul and George at Abbey Road but sadly no recordings seem to exist.
Once back in England , Jimmy reformed the Shubdubs and during 1964 and 1965 they toured extensively.
During this time Jimmy also released a solo single as The Sound of Jimmy Nicol.
Between 1965 and 1967 he was a member of the well-known Swedish guitar group The Spotnicks who rush-released a single, The Spotnicks Introducing Jimmy Nicol, titled Husky and Drum Diddley.
Jimmy Nicol and Eddie Quinn RCA Victor Mexicana formed a group they called Los Nicolquinn to present shows throughout Mexico and in Southern Startes of the U.S.
They released one LP on the RCA Victor label in Mexico and Jimmy also made at least one solo single for the label.
RCA Victor 76-2398 1967 : Estoy en la onda Get the feeling / Muchachas en las rocas Girls on the rocks Later,he married and had a son, Howard, who was to win a prestigious award for his work as sound engineer on a BBC collection of Beatles recordings in the 1990s.
In 1969 Jimmie recorded Jumpin Jack Flash Rolling Stones sung in Spanish for Discos Orfeon with his own band Jimmie Nicol Show .
1969 Discos Orfeon LP-E-12-623 Mexico LP Era Psicodelica Del A Go Go Jimmie Nicol Show: Jumpin Jack Flash sung in Spanish In 1971 Jimmy Nicol was member of a Mexican rock group called BLUE RAIN Members: Remy Bastien: bass Chris Riggs: guitar vocals both formerly with Flying Karpet, a Mexican/American psych rock band Claude Henry: guitar vocals formerly with Check Mate Jimmie Nicol: drums.
They recorded in Jimmie s house where he had a 2-channel recording studio, the band was interviewed in a Mexican magazine and Jimmy talks about his living in Mexico and about when he replaced Ringo.
Rock British Invasion,Experimental Rock,Lo-Fi,Progressive/Art Rock,Psychedelic Rock,Rock n Roll,Britpop 1st Edition,Import,Still in Shrink 33 RPM Los Nicolquinn Los Nicolquinn 1967 RCA Camden CAM-276 12 LP Cover: Excellent EX sharp corners, still in shrink, 4 shrink tear at upper right Record: Near Mint NM or M- This exquisite slice of retro music history is a vinyl sound recording not a CD .
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