Who is the Fifth Beatle?

[SteppingRazor]

There can be only one. And in honor of Billy Preston's death, I figured I'd ask the experts -- The DU Lounge! Hmmm.... wait a sec...

[Gato Moteado]

1. me.

nt

[ComerPerro]

2. Noel Ghallagher

or, at least he wishes

[NewWaveChick1981]

3. I thought it was

Apu Nahasapeemapetilan. At least that's the way the Simpsons had it figured! :P

[SteppingRazor]

4. Ah, but in that episode...

Paul McCartney rolls his eyes and says, "Yeah, SURE you were."

Me? A Simpsons geek? Why, no, why do you ask?

[NewWaveChick1981]

6. I remember that part of the episode...

But I can still HOPE that Apu's the Fifth Beatle! :)

[RedStateShame]

5. Brian Wilson

Oh, no, George Martin just stole his sound after '66.

[Squeech]

7. Murray the K claimed the role

and his audience was large enough that he should be included in the poll.

(My real answer is Sutcliffe. My understanding is that he was John's closest collaborator back then.)

[Throd]

8. Clarence

The band was originally going to be called "The Clarences". Clarence has the proof!

[blue neen]

19. LOL!

"She love you, man!"

Clarence was the saxophone player.

:rofl: :rofl::rofl:

[puerco-bellies]

9. Apoo Nahasapeemapetilon

Everyone knows that.

[Magrittes Pipe]

10. Paul McCartney.

Everyone in your poll is cooler than Paul. :thumbsdown:

[arwalden]

11. Yoko Ono

[SteppingRazor]

13. .

:spank:

[Bossy Monkey]

12. George Martin, but today it's Billy Preston

Kudos; I was thinking of running the exact same poll.

Oh, and don't forget Bernard Purdie. His claims are largely repudiated here (but it's fun):
http://www.beatlesagain.com/breflib/purdie.html

[SteppingRazor]

15. If you're gonna get as specific as people like Purdie...

there's plenty of people who fit the bill:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fifth_Beatle

[Aristus]

14. George Martin. No doubt about it.

Stu Sutcliffe was a bad bassist with a good 'look'.
Pete Best was no better or worse a drummer than Ringo Starr.
George Martin is one of the most talented, innovative and daring producers in the history of rock music. He came to the Beatles from classical and jazz recording, took a chance on them, and ending being a major force behind the Beatles sound.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

16. Everyone knows Harry Nilsson was the 5th Beatle...

[StellaBlue]

17. Stu, duh.

[Dukkha]

18. Clarence

Eddie Murphy starred in a 1983 Saturday Night Live sketch, playing the role of "Clarence", a man who claimed to be the fifth Beatle, as saxophonist, who was kicked out by John and Paul because they wanted to steal the glory. The sketch featured Clarence's "proof" of his claims: Some out-of-tune saxophone and backing vocal parts clumsily overdubbed on a few Beatles songs, and an obviously phony picture of Clarence standing in the middle of the four Beatles. Another Saturday Night Live sketch in 1988 portrayed Albert Goldman as the fifth Beatle.

[enigmatic]

20. Mal Evans

[Human Torch]

21. Had to go with George Martin.

Yes, The Beatles wrote and performed the songs. But Martin made Beatles albums. They could have played every club in Europe without him, but they couldn't have made those albums.

They could have made albums...just not those albums.

Or as Derek Smalls, the legendary bassist from Spinal Tap, once said: "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel, they're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries, it's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.



:toast:

[kwassa]

22. Herbie