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June 23, 2018
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It’s not Ringo, the fourth member of the legendary band. It’s Colin Hanton who quit the group after a bust-up at a gig
Loads of Beatles fans trundle along Penny Lane and get a wave from the man who played drums with John, Paul and George.
They wave back – blissfully unaware the Liverpool pensioner they have just encountered could have been a really big Starr.
This isn’t Ringo, the fourth member of the legendary band. It’s Colin… Colin Hanton – the man who turned his back on the group after a bust-up at a gig.
He is 79, lives just a few long and winding roads from Penny Lane and says of greeting the daytrippers: “To them I’m just a grey-haired old bloke on his way to get the morning paper – but they’ll give me a wave back.”
Colin left the Beatles – then called the Quarrymen – after a fallout with George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
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That is a very cool story..I loved seeing Paul on James Cordon too.
Do you give tours of Liverpool too?
Hey Richard,
Did you get my message re: getting Sir Paul to Liverpool for IBW next year? I thought with it being 50 years since Abbey Rd albumin 2019 (the last one they actually recorded together)it would be fitting…..