Andy White , a musician who played drums for the Beatles first hit but spent his life on the threshold of the fame, died at age 85 , told his colleagues Wednesday.
A native of Glasgow, White lived for many years in the United States, where he taught Scottish drums and flute, and died this week in his adopted home, New Jersey, wrote in Facebook as his band New York Metro Pipe Band
White played for a single issue of the American –the Beatles version of “Love Me Do”. – – but that was enough to make the “fifth Beatle” mythical
In the early 1960s, lived in London but was familiar with the American music scene when he crossed the Atlantic to play with great. artists like Chuck Berry and Bill Haley and the Comets.
As recalled by the White himself later, producer Ron Richards called him in 1962 and offered him a job in a three-hour session for EMI.
“ That’s all I knew about it. By then he had already listened to the Beatles because my first wife Lynne was Liverpool and had mentioned, but did not know much about them “, told the newspaper Britain’s Daily Record in an interview in 2012.
But White said he was impressed by the Beatles and the British considered a very original group, because they were “mere copies of the music that was made in America.”
But then Ringo Starr took over as drummer full-time and played for the British version of “Love Me Do”.
While the career of White with the Beatles was short, he played drums for numerous artists including Tom Jones in 1965.
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