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23 de jun. de 2024 · While drummer Pete Best is best known as the “fifth Beatle” – being let go from the band in 1962 before they achieved international fame – Rod Davis, who played with Lennon in The Quarrymen in...
24 de jun. de 2024 · Davis, 82, is selling the £5 banjo he used in The Quarrymen and it is expected to fetch up to £15,000 at auction. Davis, who had known Lennon since he was five, joined the Liverpool skiffle band with only a banjo after he missed out on buying the guitar he really wanted.
23 de jun. de 2024 · Rod Davis calls on his own experience as a first lieutenant who found himself in South Korea instead of Vietnam, and he writes convincingly about the rocky relationship between LT Thomas Jefferson Hobbes and Kim, a young working girl who almost survives what can be called “after-market of wars.”
8 de jul. de 2024 · Hunter Davies wrote, again in the 2009 updated introduction to his book, that Rod Davis, one of the original members of John’s pre-Beatles band, The Quarrymen, had searched the archives of the Liverpool Echo newspaper, which had, of course, provided nightly accounts of the progression of the war.
28 de jun. de 2024 · Rod Laver, Australian tennis player, the second male player in the history of the game (after Don Budge in 1938) to win the four major singles championships (Australian, French, British [Wimbledon], and U.S.) in one year (1962) and the first to repeat this Grand Slam (1969).
23 de jun. de 2024 · The Life of Kim and the Behavior of Men. In 1970, Second Lieutenant Thomas Jefferson Hobbes, fresh out of college and ROTC, finds himself sent to South Korea instead of the expected Vietnam.
30 de jun. de 2024 · The Daily Telegraph has an interview with Rod Davis, a pal of John Lennon's who played in the pre-Beatles band, the Quarrymen. A childhood friend of John Lennon has revealed he turned down an offer to join The Beatles because he “didn’t like rock ‘n’ roll” and he didn’t know how to play the drums.
