Peter Shotton (4 August 1941 – 24 March 2017) was an English businessman. He was known for creating the Fatty Arbuckle's chain of restaurants and for...

chords and songs. Lennon founded a skiffle group with his close friend Pete Shotton and after a week of gaining new members, they named themselves The Quarrymen...

United Kingdom. The Manchester-based business was co-founded in 1983 by Pete Shotton, an associate of The Beatles. It focused on large portions at cheap prices...

Mosspits Lane Primary School, which included future Quarrymen members Pete Shotton and Nigel Walley, and briefly, John Lennon. Len learned how to play the...

as their banjo player: I lived in Woolton and first met John Lennon, Pete Shotton, Nigel Walley, Ivan Vaughan and Geoff Rhind at St. Peter's Sunday School...

1956) John Lennon – vocals, lead guitar Eric Griffiths – rhythm guitar Pete Shotton – washboard Bill Smith – tea chest bass The Quarrymen (November–December...

This initial line-up consisted of Lennon and Griffiths on guitars, Pete Shotton on washboard, and school friend Smith on tea chest bass. Smith acquired...

testimony from several independent sources, including George Martin and Pete Shotton, supports McCartney's claim to authorship. "Eleanor Rigby" continued...

Dirty Filthy Love, Monroe and Rev. and played John Lennon's best friend Pete Shotton in the BBC4 drama Lennon Naked. In 2005 he played Detective Sergeant...

in a theatre production of Much Ado About Nothing. In 2009, he played Pete Shotton in the BAFTA nominated film Nowhere Boy. He went on to appear in the...

of the first business ventures by Apple Corps. Lennon's schoolfriend Pete Shotton was hired as manager, and the Dutch design collective The Fool were brought...

screaming, piano, percussion, various instruments, tape loops, sound effects Pete Shotton – tape loops Footnotes John told them that if he was not working on a...

poem. The final piece of the song came together during a visit from Pete Shotton, Lennon's friend and former fellow member of the Quarrymen, when Lennon...

George Harrison David Threlfall as George Toogood Smith Josh Bolt as Pete Shotton Ophelia Lovibond as Marie Kennedy James Michael Johnson as Stan Parkes...

incarnations as The Quarrymen, The Beatles were a skiffle band, featuring Pete Shotton on washboard. During their early years, Mungo Jerry frequently featured...

James Shotton (1824–1896), English artist Liam Shotton (born 1987), English footballer Malcolm Shotton (born 1957), English footballer and manager Pete Shotton...

Hanton helped form the Quarrymen along with John Lennon, Eric Griffiths, Pete Shotton and Rod Davis. He was asked to join the nascent band, largely because...

a group effort, with Harrison, Starr, Lennon and the latter's friend Pete Shotton all contributing. While Lennon and Harrison supplied harmonies beside...

when he sang the line to McCartney, and decided to keep it this way. Pete Shotton, Lennon's former bandmate from The Quarrymen, was present when the song...

can't walk on water after all. Lennon stays with his childhood friend Pete Shotton in his mansion and asks him to bring Yoko. After Lennon and Yoko record...

full length album featuring Pete Shotton, who also returned to the band in 1997 but later retired due to ill health. Shotton subsequently died in 2017....

Apple money clip was given to the first 50 guests. Lennon's friend Peter Shotton managed the store with Harrison's wife Pattie Boyd's sister Jenny Boyd...

the Daily Howl to amuse his best friend and later Quarrymen bandmate Pete Shotton, to whom he would show his work before he let anyone else see it. Turner...

Harrison and John Lennon of The Beatles, and Lennon's lifelong friend Pete Shotton attended. Some others who attended the school were comedian Jimmy Tarbuck...

and Lennon became friends at the age of five, even though Walley and Pete Shotton (who also lived in Vale Road) went to Mosspits Lane Infant/Junior School...

childhood home in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool. Lennon and his friends Pete Shotton, Nigel Walley and Ivan Vaughan used to play in the wooded garden behind...

friend Pete Shotton, who was working for The Beatles company Apple Corps, and had asked to borrow a few thousand pounds to fund the exhibition. Shotton told...

Cleave, inspiring the band's song "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". Pete Shotton, a friend of Lennon's, also suggested Cleave, though Cleave has said...

might have served as an example for Lennon. According to his friend Pete Shotton, when Lennon played him the acetate of "Doctor Robert", "he seemed beside...

point. In 1972, Lennon said that he wrote 70 percent of the lyrics, but Pete Shotton, Lennon's childhood friend, remembered Lennon's contribution as being...