The day the music died.

The Beetles was the original name in tribute to Buddy Holly.

It was Stuart Sutcliffe's idea not John Lennon's. This is well documented.

It was later changed to the Beatles as a play on words.

What Audiofeil said.

"True Love Ways"--theaudiotweek brought that cut to my attention back in 1988, as I recall. Though somewhat of a peripheral fan, I had missed how well that was recorded. Truly amazing.

Larry,

Yes I recall your reaction that day. Funny what we sometimes remember and hold onto.We demo'd on Essence 10's.. 2'3rd's of the way back on the left side of the store.

Have several versions of "True Love Ways". One of these versions has a short spoken intro recorded well off to the right side detached from that speaker where you can sense clearly the producer being in a different room and airspace from the band. Its rather spooky. Tom

Tom,
That's the cut we listened to--the producer speaking that disembodied voice from the other room, in different 'air space'...

Plus, some idiot engineer forgot to turn on the magic 'effects buttons and knobs' and Buddy had to sing it without layers and layers of added echo and noise--so we had to listen to an almost unprocessed Buddy.