Johnny Hutchinson

https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/221963/i-turned-down-the-beatles-and-i-have-no-regrets/

Updated: 5th April 2016, 8:20 pm

ONE is the world’s most famous drummer and worth £180million. The other a pensioner who lives in a four-bed semi in Liverpool.

But Johnny Hutchinson, the drummer who turned down The Beatles before they became the biggest band in history, insists he would not trade places with Ringo Starr if he had his time again.

The quietly spoken musician says: “It was a big call but I have no regrets. I couldn’t carry it on.

“It was too much for me, playing with my group and playing with The Beatles.”

While Johnny’s name may not be familiar, the 76-year-old played three gigs with the fledgling rock ’n’ rollers in August 1962 but returned to his own band, The Big Three, despite an offer from Beatles manager Brian Epstein.

Johnny — now a buy-to-let landlord — believes the offer, once thought to have been made weeks before Ringo was asked to join, may have come the same day incumbent drummer Pete Best was sacked.

Fans and historians have since obsessed over what might have been had “Johnny Hutch” said “yes”.

But he has never given a full account of the amazing story, until now.

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Today, in a world exclusive, he recalls the day — August 16, 1962 — Epstein headhunted him.

He says: “I was 23 and playing with The Beatles in Chester. Brian was there and kept looking at me strange.

“I got off stage after the gig and had to zoom off. Brian said, ‘I was looking at you to see how you’d fit with The Beatles’.

“I joked, ‘I don’t really.’ He said, ‘You do, I want you to join The Beatles.’”

Johnny then remembers telling a shocked Brian: “I don’t want to play for The Beatles, Brian — I’ve got my own group.

“I would not join The Beatles for a gold clock.

“There’s only one group as far as I’m concerned and that’s The Big Three.

“The Beatles can’t make a better sound than that and Pete (Best) is a very good friend of mine.”

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Johnny adds: “They were lucky to be playing with me. I used to walk around Liverpool and think, ‘I own this city.’

“Paul McCartney wouldn’t come near me.

“I told Brian I couldn’t do the dirty on Pete but he said, ‘John, The Big Three is limited but for The Beatles the world is their oyster.’ I’ll never forget him saying that. He was a very clever man.”

Photographed two years earlier, playing as a last-minute replacement for The Beatles who were at an audition, Johnny had already seen enough of his fellow Liverpudlians to decide he would not fit in. He reckons John Lennon was eager for him to join, but Johnny didn’t like the frontman’s drinking.

He says: “Me and John were different people. I used to pick him up when he was drunk face down in his meal. I didn’t drink.

“I go up to Liverpool airport now and see the sign ‘John Lennon Airport’ and I think, ‘Jesus Christ, if only they knew’.”

But Johnny says the pair remained pals, adding: “John made up with me — he always used to say, ‘Johnny Hutch can sing better than you’ to Paul. He wanted me to join.”

So convinced was Johnny that The Beatles would never amount to anything, when he ended up with a self-portrait of John he let his dad use it to fix a broken door.

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He recalls: “John owed me ten bob — 50p. So I went to his flat and said, ‘Hey, where’s my money?’

“None of us had any money, we were all bums, we played music to get by, they were all lazy bastards. So I said, ‘Where’s my money?’ and he says, ‘I don’t have any’ and I said, ‘I want my money now or I’m taking something.’ There was a portrait of him on the floor in a red waistcoat and a white shirt — so I took that. He had painted it of himself.

“My ma put it at the fireplace but in the end my dad nailed the back door up with it. We had no timber and the door was bust, so he looked around and saw the portrait of John.

“How much do you reckon that would be worth now? £100,000? It must be.”

Of all The Beatles, Johnny was closest to George Harrison, who was “my favourite Beatle — a proper mate”.

As for Ringo, Johnny takes the credit for urging Brian to recruit him. The two drummers knew each other well.

Ringo bought his first car, a Standard Vanguard, from Johnny for £75.

Canny operator Brian apparently decided to keep Johnny in the dark about the talks the band already had with Ringo.

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Johnny says: “Ringo was with Rory Storm And The Hurricanes at the time. I told Brian to get him.

“Pete Best couldn’t play the drums — I could play the drums better than Pete Best with a stick stuck up my a**e. Honest.

“And Ringo? I gave Ringo the job. I wouldn’t let Ringo play my drums. I just wouldn’t. I didn’t trust him with my drums, just like nobody would get to drive my van.”

After the Chester gig, Johnny played two more the day after.

Ringo came on board at a show one night later, with news of Pete’s sacking leading to protests on the streets of Liverpool and at the city’s famous Cavern Club. The rest is history. Beatlemania swept the globe, while The Big Three parted ways after moderate success.

But Johnny insists that, unlike Pete, his world never imploded and he never thought twice about the decision which might have cost him £180million — Ringo’s current worth on The Sunday Times rich list.

He married wife Elizabeth, now 75, when he was 19 and is still devoted to her today. Elizabeth suffers from Alzheimer’s and Johnny cooks her meals every day.

The loving couple had three children and one granddaughter and always remained in Liverpool.

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But being a rock star is now a distant memory to Johnny, who no longer keeps a drum kit in his house. His focus now is on his 12-strong property empire — although, last week, he took part in a reunion of Sixties Merseybeat legends at the Cavern, where they remembered old pal Cilla Black, who was buried in Liverpool on Thursday.

He says: “It was a great time and I loved it but to me it was just a game.

“Other bands were after fame and that’s all they cared about.

“They were all ‘would-bes if they could-bes’ and snotty-nosed kids really. Some bands, as soon as they made it, they p***ed off to London, and I hated London.”

Ringo celebrated his 75th birthday last month with an autograph session at LA’s Capital Records Tower, where The Beatles recorded.

Since the Fab Four split in 1970, he has recorded 18 solo albums and been inducted into Music’s Hall Of Fame.

But Johnny, far from being bitter, only has fondness for the man who replaced him and recalls: “Ringo once said, ‘There’s only two drummers that have come out of Liverpool — me and Johnny Hutchinson.’

“He puts me second.

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“Kate is unflappable. Her mantra is very like the queen’s keep calm and carry on approach in life"

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Beach Boys

Beach Boys music could have been a catastrophe. Consider their starting point: a conglomeration of novelty genres most of which were out of date - doowop, barber shop quartet, and surf. Not the stuff of rock classics.

The image, which is important in pop, didn't stand on very much. Only Dennis looked like a rock star. Brian was shy and stiff on stage, Carl and Al look like accountants, and Mike Love you want to punch in the face. In the early days, they wore identical stripped preppie shirts and ill-fitting pants that only looked too tight and not sexy a la Jim Morrison. After the Beatles made it big, they set fashion trends. The Beach Boys put on Hawaiian shirts. 

Even the name - Beach Boys. What is that? Sounds like a hot dog stand on the boardwalk. It's not a name that grabs you like the Who, the Guess Who, the Kinks or so many others.

But here's what Brian Wilson did with this mess. And when I offer to explain it I only offer to give a very rough outline for to know the secret of the Beach Boys is like knowing the secret recipe to Coca Cola or the atom bomb. I can't tell you exactly what they did. But it was a bit like this:

Brian crafted several dozen of the best pop songs ever written. Interesting songs. The wild girl who'll have fun until her father takes away her T-bird. The young couple who long to be older so they don't have to part every night. Rhonda, who'll help me get the other girl out of my heart.  The girlfriend who will help me not to worry. Some of them are fun, some are introspective, some are funny.

The song crafting is superb. It's insane how superb. Imagery, hook lines, characters and story lines that are setup in seconds. The songs were lean and they popped on contagious melody.

And top of that granite foundation sat the doowop and surf and barber shop harmonizing. It came together like a symphony of Spektor sound and Motown. It was circuslike. You didn't know what was coming next. They had so many tools. A soaring vocal, a ba ba ba, a harmony, a guitar riff, a snare shot. 

Classical music orchestras are like this too. There are some strange instruments - the bassoon, the bass drum, the bass, the piccolo. Each on its own is OK, but weird in any quantity as are their players. You put 'em together the right way and you have Tchaikovsky.

The Beach Boys were a Tchaikovsky of pop music. They could step awkwardly side to side all night in shirts your 60 year old uncle might wear and you'd find yourself singing like there was no tomorrow and feeling such joy. When they really get going on Help Me Rhonda, there is nothing else I'd rather be doing than listening to that song. Nothing.

The band executed wonderfully. Brian and Carl had tender, sweet voices. Al and Mike sounded like teenagers. And I mean that as a complement. They really sounded like authentic teenage boys telling their story. It made the songs so real.

As musicians they were good enough. The studio musicians of Pet Sounds of course executed to perfection.

The Beach Boys are in the top echelon of rock. Every one agrees. You say their names along with the Stone, the Beatles, Dylan. That's where they stand. They could have been so bad as to not even qualify to be a bar mitzvah band. Instead, they are rock royalty.

Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, MD, on vaccine safety

"In 1983, when I started medical school, I was taught vaccines were safe and effective and give them, but I was not taught about any of the science around their safety or any of the studies around how safety were done. And it wasn't until 1998, that a mother came up to me and said “Dr. Larry, did you know there's mercury in vaccines?" And I said, "No, I did not." And as a medical student I was trained to critically think. If you see an observation you go after it and try to figure out if there's a question to ask. So instead of just ignoring it, I looked further into the vaccine ingredients. And I found that there were a number of vaccine ingredients that in animal studies were proven to be very dangerous to animals and I didn't understand why these same ingredients were actually in vaccines. I was starting to hear stories from parents, not dozens, not hundreds, but thousands of stories from parents who took a very healthy child into their doctor's office and then found that their child lost much of their health whether it was their speech, whether it was seizures, whether it was death, whether it was asthma, allergies, eczema, whether it was autism, whether it was learning disabilities, whether it was inflammatory bowel disease, autoimmune diseases. And every one of those parents were told it had nothing to do with the vaccine, every single one. And this continues today. But yet, when I look at the ingredients that are in the vaccines, I have the science to actually explain how these medical problems could be happening in these children. Today 1 child in 5 is learning disabled. In 1976, it was 1 in 17. 1 in 6 under age 8, 1 in 2 adolescents, and 1 in 4 young adults is diagnosed with a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder. 1 in 20 children under the age of 5 have seizures. 1 child in 40 develops autism. The number of cases of children and adults with autoimmune diseases is rising exponentially. It's one of the highest rising diseases in this country. And the vaccine ingredients, if you are willing to look at them and understand how they work when they are injected into the body, can be seen to be responsible for every single one of these cases.  

"So, what are these ingredients? Well, when I was in medical school, we were taught that the body has something called the blood-brain barrier. The blood-brain barrier is like Fort Knox to the brain. Elements of the blood stream cannot get into the brain. And those elements include drugs, viruses, and bacteria, among other things that are in the blood. Drug companies were very concerned about being able to develop drugs to get the drugs into the brain. And so, they used something called a nanoparticle - nanoparticle, very small particle bound to the drug. And they found that if they could put a nanoparticle onto a drug, they could get that drug to go into the brain. And it shows in animal studies that they were able to do this. They then were able to take an emulsifier which is something that's good with water and fat, it can dissolve in both, and if they added the emulsifier to the nanoparticle bound to the drug they could increase drug entry into the brain twenty-fold. This is right out of animal studies that I have found. So you have a drug, you have a nanoparticle, and you have this emulsifier. The vaccines are constructed the same way. You have the vaccine viruses and bacteria that are bound to a nanoparticle called aluminum. And that aluminum is a nanoparticle. And by definition, a nanoparticle has the potential to enter the brain. Most vaccines also contain polysorbate 80 or sorbitol. Both of those compounds are emulsifiers. Emulsifiers bind very tightly to the nanoparticle aluminum which is bound very tightly to the vaccine antigens.

“This raises a question: if the vaccine model is the same model as the model that the drug companies are using to enhance the delivery of drugs into the brain, is it possible that vaccine ingredients are making their way into the brain of our children that could explain why so many parents are watching their kids deteriorate after vaccinations even though the doctors, the media, and the government say absolutely no connection, even though the science suggests that there is. You cannot find a single study in the literature that addresses whether the injection of aluminum into the body penetrates the brain, whether any vaccine ingredients enter the brain, and whether polysorbate 80 enhances the delivery of any of those ingredients into the brain. And when I could not find those studies I was concerned. Because I am told, you are told, vaccines are safe. They are evaluated and very, very distinctly tested for safety. But yet, you cannot find a study that says does aluminum get into the brain of children, does aluminum take other vaccine ingredients into the brain that don’t belong in the brain. Because when ingredients get across the blood brain barrier that don’t belong in the brain, they cause inflammation. And inflammation is what we see in 1 in 5 children with learning disabilities and 1 in 40 children with autism. All you have to do is ask the guidance counselors and if you get honest pediatricians who are telling you what they are seeing in their practice, they are seeing kids one after another with more and more brain disorders.

"Now, as a medical doctor, who was taught to think and then went into the literature, and said, are proper science studies done, safety studies, where you take a vaccine and you inject it into 100 kids, and then you give 100 kids a saline placebo, meaning it’s inert - no study exists to actually evaluate the safety of a vaccine compared to a placebo group. None. When vaccines are studied, the maximum amount of days that vaccines are studied are up to 10 days to two weeks. And unfortunately, the vaccine manufacturers preselect what side effects that they will allow to be associated with the vaccines. So if a child has a vaccine reaction that is associated with the vaccine, the vaccine manufacturers will decide whether or not it should or should not be associated with the vaccine. And the public knows this and they are learning it more and more. So if your child develops seizures 5 months after a vaccine, your child is told by the doctor it had nothing to do with the vaccine. But that’s not true, because there are no studies to prove it. There is opinion. But there’s never been a study really addressing whether a vaccination at two months or even 9 hours of age could be related to an event that happened months or even years later. And yet, we have some of the sickest children in our country.  

“In New York we lost the religious exemption on June 13th because the unvaccinated children with a religious exemption were blamed for a measles outbreak. When I met with representatives in New York, I told them that there is no study to prove that unvaccinated children have ever been proven to start an epidemic. And he (one of the representatives) was surprised and he said I will vote against removing the religious exemption if I can't find a study like you say. He could not find a study, but he voted to repeal the exemption anyway. Because there are no studies, there are no studies proving that unvaccinated children are responsible. There's consensus and here's why there's consensus. We are taught that vaccines stop the children from carrying the germs that we are vaccinating against. And study after study shows that children who are vaccinated can still carry the germ despite having received the vaccine. So the vaccinated are still capable of spreading disease, but the unvaccinated are being unfairly blamed because of a consensus opinion but not true science. To repeat, no study, no science has ever proven that vaccines eliminate the existence of the organism in your body. If anything, science is showing that the vaccines cause the organisms to mutate. And there are plenty of articles showing that strains are replaced by new strains after vaccinations similarly to the way antibiotics are bringing about new strains of bacteria because of the overuse of antibiotics.

“So why are we blaming the unvaccinated children? No study has ever been done in this country appropriately to address the health outcomes of children who were vaccinated versus the children who were unvaccinated. I have been seeing families in my practice for over 20 years that have opted out of vaccination. They are the healthiest children I have ever seen. I have families who have older children who have been vaccinated, middle children who have been partially vaccinated, and then younger children who have not been vaccinated at all. And those families are rising in number and they see the difference between the health outcomes of their younger children who are rarely sick versus their older children who are getting I.E.P.’s in schools [Individualized Educational Program], needing medications, ER’s, and constant health issues. And all I get when I state something like that is well that’s anecdotal. Well, it’s anecdotal if you see it a couple of times but it’s not anecdotal when you see it for over 20 years and when you speak to parents and when you speak to teachers and when you speak to guidance counselors. And when I speak to pediatricians who are too afraid to come out in public. There is pressure to ostracize the families who know the science and know the lack of science that is available. There’s a lot of consensus. And when I think about the subject of vaccination, I want to ensure that if we are going to prevent infectious diseases in children, that we don’t create something worse in its place. Unfortunately, we’re dealing with a lot of beliefs instead of actual science and beliefs go a long way. I took the oath of first do no harm, but when I look into the science and I don’t see long term studies and I see only short term studies up to 4 to 10 days where the side effects are manipulated by the manufacturers who are the only ones doing the studies on the vaccines, and when I see no placebo groups and I see no studies of the single ingredients or the combined ingredients and I see the science, the biochemistry of the ingredients in animal studies where animals who are given the aluminum are found to have motor delays and behavior problems which is a great deal of what we are seeing in children today, I say are we first doing no harm? And so, first do no harm means the precautionary principle. And more and more parents are understanding the dangers of vaccines, and that’s why we are seeing such pressure to mandate vaccines because more of the science is coming out.

“In order to create herd immunity, you have to be able to prove that children who are vaccinated are immune. And the sad part about that is that whenever you vaccinate a population of children, you are always gonna have a population that doesn’t develop any antibodies at all. The estimates of that are about 10%. That vaccines will fail in 10% of the population. Vaccination, no antibody production. But the next group is even more suspicious. Because when you vaccinate and you do produce an antibody, there is science to show that the presence of an antibody doesn’t guarantee immunity either. And we don’t know the percentage of children who get a vaccine, develop an antibody but aren’t immune at all. We assume that if we vaccinate, we are getting protection. We assume that if we vaccinate, we are stopping spread of disease. Those are assumptions that have never been solidified in science. And I’m happy to offer more explanations during the Q and A. I wouldn’t say that if I didn’t have the science to prove it.

“The parents that I work with in New York, that I see around the country, are very concerned that their rights are being taken away, that their knowledge about the science is being pushed away by an agenda that only says unvaccinated children are a problem. Just to wrap up, in New York when we had the measles outbreak, I’m sorry in California when they had a measles outbreak, there were 194 cases. Of the 194 cases, 73 cases were due to the actual virus in the vaccine itself. 73, 38 percent. 73 cases were due to the measles virus causing measles.  All the literature states that measles virus infection is not true measles and should not be counted as a health threat. That means only 121 kids developed measles, 121 people. New York State did not do the proper testing that’s given down by the CDC to test every child to see if the children had measles strain, wild type measles, or a mutated measles. There are cases around the country and around the world where in a 95 to 98% vaccinated population they had measles outbreaks because they found mutated viruses. As I said before, there are cases where the virus mutates, where there are strain replacements.  New York State did not do the proper testing of the 1,000 plus young children and adults who came down with measles. They wrote a little blurb on the CDC website of the two wild viruses that were responsible for the measles outbreak but we in New York know that the testing was not done. 4,200 kids on Long Island had the religious exemption and were not vaccinated and there was not one case of measles on Long Island. Thank you.” 

Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, MD, a board-certified pediatrician with 31 years of experience as a physician, testifying at the Legislative Informational Forum, an informational forum on the science behind vaccines at the Connecticut state Capitol. Dr. Palevsky who is licensed to practice medicine in New York State, earned his medical degree in 1987 from the New York University School of Medicine, one of the top medical schools in the world. He completed a three-year pediatric residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC in 1990 and served as a pediatric fellow in the ambulatory care out-patient department at Bellevue Hospital, NYC, from 1990-1991. Since 1991, his clinical experience includes working in pediatric emergency and intensive care medicine, in-patient, and out-patient pediatric medicine, neonatal intensive care medicine, newborn and delivery room medicine, and conventional, holistic and integrative pediatric private practice. He received his pediatric board certification in 1990, and passed his pediatric board recertification exams in 1997, 2004, and 2011.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/10/06/dr-palevsky-disease-vaccines.aspx

THE WILLIAM DAVIDSON STORY

“He was optimistic, as most good entrepreneurs are,” recalls Peter Walters, who, before retiring, served as Guardian’s group vice president for international business development. “Entrepreneurs see things as having good outcomes — as opposed to the conservative finance people who would ask, ‘What would happen if the world comes to an end? Would we still be successful?’

https://williamdavidson.org/who-we-are/the-william-davidson-story/

Wonderwall

And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would like to say to you
But I don't know how

Noam Gallagher