re: First Beatle to Perform in the U.S.A.

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There are 3 living Beatles

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Paul, Ringo, Pete Best, and at least one other guy who played with them early on when they were still the Silver Beatles. Can't recall his name, a book was written about him recently.

Of course this doesn't count Jimmie Nicol, who played drums for a couple of weeks in 1964 when Ringo had his tonsils taken out.

One of my all time favorite pics: After two weeks of adulation as a Beatle, Jimmie Nicol waits alone in the Melbourne airport, to take a plane back to Liverpool and obscurity.