• 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Mosspits Lane Primary School, which included future Quarrymen members Pete Shotton and Nigel Walley, and briefly, John Lennon. Len learned how to play the...
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  • 1956) John Lennon – vocals, lead guitar Eric Griffiths – rhythm guitar Pete Shotton – washboard Bill Smith – tea chest bass The Quarrymen (November–December...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • testimony from several independent sources, including George Martin and Pete Shotton, supports McCartney's claim to authorship. "Eleanor Rigby" continued...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • George Harrison David Threlfall as George Toogood Smith Josh Bolt as Pete Shotton Ophelia Lovibond as Marie Kennedy James Michael Johnson as Stan Parkes...
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    incarnations as The Quarrymen, The Beatles were a skiffle band, featuring Pete Shotton on washboard. During their early years, Mungo Jerry frequently featured...
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  • James Shotton (1824–1896), English artist Liam Shotton (born 1987), English footballer Malcolm Shotton (born 1957), English footballer and manager Pete Shotton...
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    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...
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  • a group effort, with Harrison, Starr, Lennon and the latter's friend Pete Shotton all contributing. While Lennon and Harrison supplied harmonies beside...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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....
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    series) Jeff Lynne Billy Preston Jimmie Nicol Tony Sheridan Pete Shotton Lord Woodbine Pete Best Norman Chapman Tommy Moore (musician) Chas Newby Stuart...
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