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How The Beatles found their drummer at Butlin's5 hours agoKarl BirdIn SkegnessMichael Ochs ArchiveRingo Starr joined The Beatles in 1962 while he was playing Butlin's in SkegnessA Lincolnshire holiday camp played a little-known but crucial part in the birth of The Beatles. A young, bearded Ringo Starr was playing drums with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes at the Butlins in Skegness in the summer 1962 when Paul McCartney and John Lennon arrived to try and recruit him to the band. Bobby Thomson, who was bassist in the Hurricanes, recalls the duo arriving early one morning after driving all night from Liverpool. "I think that was the whole idea, to invite him to join the Beatles," he said. "Because I was with Ringo they didn't come out with it. They could have, it wouldn't have bothered me. "He said that a few weeks later in mid August the band were having breakfast when an announcement over the speaker system asked Starr to report to reception. He asked Thomson to come with him and the pair arrived to find a phone call from Beatles manager Brian Epstein asking if Starr would like to join the group.
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