What thoughts could you generate if you were asked to step in and play for the most famous pop/rock group of all time? How would you approach such a task, especially as a young drummer playing in front of the public for the first time? What courage could you muster to face a job of such a great magnitude, having been an obscure session drummer in the past? These questions and a thousand more twirled about in the mind of a young English drummer named Jimmy Nicol when he was asked to fill in for Ringo Starr during the Beatles’ European tour of 1964 at the height of their touring career. During this unbelievable time when rock music took on a different face at the hands of these four Liverpool lads, Jimmy became a Beatle in the truest sense of the word. The words of Jimmy Nicol reveal a deep […]

June 1986 Issue