The Quarrymen Episode 6 - Nigel Walley Quarrymen Manager and John Lennon
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2023
- In a rare interview, Nigel Walley talks about John Lennon, The Quarrymen, and how The Quarrymen got into the Cavern Club in early 1957. Nigel Walley was interviewed at Lee Park Golf Club to talk about his role as manager of The Quarrymen.
Nigel was an occasional tea-chest bass player, but his main role was to get bookings for The Quarrymen. As a working golf professional, Nigel tells us how, through one of his golf lessons, he acquired an audition at the golf club, which got them into the Cavern Club.
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An interesting account from an unusual angle. Thank you Nigel Walley and thanks Brightmoon for making it available. Fascinating memories, and useful to future historians, no doubt.
He is such a lovely guy too. Told us so many stories. This was a gem.
A great incite into the early days , great stuff. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
"When Paul joined the group, that changed things completely, ..." Very enlightening. Great Job David!!!
Thanks Dan
So true Dan, a great insight from Quarryman Nigel. Paul seems to have been driven right from the start. Good in many ways, and bad in others, especially for those who weren't as committed. Pretty brave/cheeky to join a John Lennon band and start throwing your weight around. 🤣 Perhaps Paul got his outlook from his Dad, who once ran a band, because he can't have had much experience himself 😆
Another important member of the Quarrymen that made history. Shows how the line of history starts with the simplest beginnings. The early gigs and their history are the "real deal" from those that were there. No better historical record than this. Way to go David.
Glad you enjoyed it Paul. It all starts here!
Thanks David !
A pleasure
You do an amazing job, David. Each post is as interesting as the Beatles Anthology book is. Documented, made with passion, amazing interviews, angles…
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Thanks..Very enlightening
A pleasure
Very interesting to hear from Nigel
So rarely interviewed and such a nice man too.
Brilliant talk from a man who was actually there. We can all imagine, but we need these eye witness accounts to know what actually happened all those years ago.
Thanks Tony, yes, we need to hear from those eyewitnesses to fully understand what really happened.
To think Mr. Jones allowed me into his home at 20 Forthlin Rd. in 1981 and let me walk around that shrine. Was in awe then...and in greater awe today after hearing so many of the Quarrymen had also practiced there.
What was it like then? What do you remember?
@@BrightmoonLiverpool I was youngish (27) and felt like I didn't want to overstay my welcome, which is why I only took 2 photos from inside. As Mr. Jones answered the door, I THINK he was smoking a pipe. We chatted at the entrance, and he invited me in. He could not have been nicer (as were all Liverpudlians I met and got to know). As I climbed the staircase, carpeted in brown with small yellow accents (first photo), Mr. Jones called up saying McCartney's bedroom would be the first one I saw after doing a 180-degree turn. Entered it and looked out the window overlooking Forthlin. (2nd photo taken from outside the bedroom looking in.) In the British reception room ("living room" to us Yanks), I remember a fireplace (the one shown in the now-famous photo of John and Paul practicing next to). Went into the smallish kitchen and later into the back yard. I assume the Jones family still owned the home up until it was designated a National Trust property, as I read years ago that Sheila Jones was the owner during the transfer period. Many, many others memories, including a bar-hopping night out with Cavern DJ Bob Wooler (Dec. '81) which was arranged by the young lady I went to visit (Wooler took me to a couple of places with live bands); and a woman at NEMS taking me downstairs and into a small room where she showed me a document with signatures. I was in such awe, I have no recollection as to what the paper was or who the signatures belonged to. Remember, this was still less than 20 years after Beatlemania had hit the globe, so I guess not all of the "important documents" had yet been gathered and archived. Sorry for being so long.
GREAT VIDEO AS ALWAYS BEST REGARDS FROM MEXICO
Thank you, greetings from Liddypool.
Keep them coming m8
Will do Phil, thanks mate
Hi. Great to hear this from someone who was there from the beginning. I am a 46 year member of Wrotham Heath Golf Club in Kent where Nigel was golf pro from 1962 to 1969. I would love to get in touch with him to pick his brains about his life at the Club and with The Quarrymen. We even have something that anecdotally may have been drawn by John Lennon when he visited Nigel at the Club when they were filming A Hard Day’s Night up the road at West Malling airfield. Is there any chance you can put me in contact with him or him with me? Thanks.
Got your email, thanks and will try and contact Nigel for you. David
A great interview Dave , funny how things improved when Paul joined 😁😁 . Imagine if Brian Epstein would have paid them by going round with the hat now there's a thought ! 😁😁👍😎🎸BB 👍20
Good idea! He missed that one. Hope your hat is full with your great Beatles covers mate!! 🎸🎵🎶👍
I've always wondered why practically none of the Beatles contemporaries from Liverpool associates had a similar accent could it be because The Beatles moved to London so early and then to America (John and Ringo) but it is difficult to find a liverpudlian that speaks like John or George .
Depends what you call a Liverpool accent. Ringo and George had typical south Liverpool accents for the time. John had little discernible traditional Liverpool accent as he lived in Woolton, where there wasn't a strong accent. Nigels is typical of Woolton.
Paul's is an amalgam as he lived in different parts of Liverpool but also had elocution lessons to lose his accent. Hope that helps?
David
Just wondering why Nigel didn't play at Allerton Golf Club (maybe he did)....after all it was basically a stones throw away from his home in Vale Rd.
John & Paul when visting each other homes walked across there often (approx 20min walk)
He could have walked to Lee Park Golf Club...but i reckon the walk from his home to the club would take around 45 mins. (Going down Gateacre brow)
Very likely got the old 66 bus on Menlove to Lee Park.
Lee Park was his job, as he was a trainee golf professional. Sure he would have played other courses like Allerton, but this was his place of work.
So here's a question for anyone who can answer. Did John write any material that the Quarrymen performed. Was he writing songs back then or were they just performing covers?
He was writing, but they didn't perform any of them. Interestingly, with the Quarrymen recording a Paul song, In Spite of all the Danger, on 12th July 1958, their drummer, Colin Hanton, can never remember them ever performing that live either.
Has anyone ever determined whether the guy in lower right wearing glasses is McCartney? I wish someone would ask HIM!
Yes and definitely is NOT Paul
Thanks always wondered
Beautiful, thanks! I don’t doubt Mr. Walley, but didn’t Mark Lewisohn maintain that Lennon did NOT see Buddy Holly in concert, even though he was just a few hundred yards away?
It is a tricky one. Nigel insists they went, but John never mentioned it, which you would have thought he would.
Whether Mark or I insist he did or didn't, only Nigel and John know the truth. We are just historians trying to get to the truth. But neither of us was there.
@@BrightmoonLiverpool Appreciate your detective work and I do hope John and Nigel saw Buddy Holly that night.
@@pbfey Me too.
where are the other episodes?
Coming soon!