Another Beatles Death — Neil Aspinall
March 24th, 2008
Only a couple of weeks after the passing of Beatles recording engineer Norman Smith, Beatles road manager and business associate Neil Aspinall has died. It would take a long time to explain Neil’s relationship and roles with the Beatles, so I won’t even try. But it’s safe to say that without Neil Aspinall, the massive Beatles Anthology project in the mid-90’s would never have gotten done.
Here’s a link to an obituary in The Los Angeles Times. If that doesn’t work, click here instead. And at this link is the BBC’s write up on Neil.
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1. jeanie beanie | March 25th, 2008 at 6:21 am
The NY Times also has a good article on Neil. The article I sent you (which I cannot find now) claims Paul flew out to see Neil in the hours before his death. This must be a bad year for Paul, with the messy divorce and losing both Norman and now Neil. I had NO IDEA that Neil had a child with Pete’s mother! How did I miss that? And his future wife was kind enough to accept him as her own; they went on to remain married for over 40 years! until yesterday.
Neil, and Norman’s deaths really show how much a successful band like the Beatles was more than just the band itself: it was a sum of all its parts. Without input from Norman, Neil, George Martin, etc., how would they have fared? An interesting thought!
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