dirtylover said about 4 years ago or at 6:22AM on Tuesday, March 25 2008 in music
RIP Neil, I'm sure it was fun
Neil Aspinall, who ran the Apple Corps music empire for the Beatles, has died at a hospital in New York, aged 66.
A school friend of Sir Paul McCartney and George Harrison, he was regarded by some of the band as the ''fifth Beatle''.
In a joint statement, Sir Paul, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Apple Corps paid tribute to ''Neil's trusting stewardship and guidance''.
Fuck there were a lot of fifth beatles.
There were more than five by my count.
Since he is cited as the person who came up with the idea of the Beatles playing up to the rumours that Paul McCartney died in a car accident, how do we know he really is dead?
How do we know McCartney's (music) career is dead?
Other 'fifth' Beatles:
Stuart Sutcliffe, Pete Best, George Martin, Brian Epstein...
rip joe strummer
Being a ''fifth Beatle'' seems like a more dangerous lifestyle choice than being a chainsmoking daredevil...
Wasn't he overseeing the remastering of the catalouge?
Will we ever get decent sound on one of the greatest collection of recorded works in history?
Was watching ''Anthology'' last night and they refered to that NYC DJ who helped them alot as 'The fifth Beatle' too.
Aspinal is all over that series too.
monkeyman, the catalogue is reportedly remastered and ready to go, presumably they're just waiting for the right marketing opportunity to run with it...
but yes, RIP.
Re-mastered vinyal as well?
its for a Beatles version of Guitar Hero (uh, strum strum strum?)
speaking of the Beatles version of Guitar Hero, if they had to play Paul's walking bass and sing at the same time, that'd be cool.. but c'mon.. Beatles songs.. if its hard you just give it to Eric Clapton to play for you.
That's VINYL, btw...
george only gave that one solo to clapton to try and get john and paul to give a shit about the song.
ah RIP. he managed to be one of the few people who could broker and agreement betwen feuding factions.
Eric Clapton, another fifth Beatle.
Wasn't Derek Taylor a fifth Beatle as well?
How about Keith Richards? He did sound effects on Yellow Submarine.
Billy Preston?
Or was he a fifth Jet?
Who wasn't the 5th Beatle?
now yer just showing off.....
:)
It seemes everyone associated with the Beatles was the 5th fucking Beatle.
Well we still have the 2nd (Paul) and the 4th (Ringo) Beatles with us.
Geoff Emerick has some claim to being the fifth Beatle. Norman Smith too.
Apu form the Simpsons was also once referred to as the fifth beatle
Presumably the bubbling sound of water in a glass pipe...?
that's beatle that rhymes with Seattle
That must be why he stood down from apple a few months ago.
My favourite 5th Beatle is Clarence Brown.
RIP Neil. He had the best memory, and he got shit done.
Everyone's forgotten Klaus Voorman!