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| Holding a crowd in a club requires a different skill set from what it takes to be good in the studio. It's a safe bet that the Beatles, like many new bands, just figured, "work up enough material and we're good to go," only to find when they hit the stage that there's more to it than that.
As to their Decca rejection, well, George Martin didn't like Pete Best's drumming and one must assume he knew what he was talking about. Perhaps Beatles historians here will know whether or not Stu Sutcliffe, by many accounts a poor bassist, was with them for the Decca audition. If so, the combination of his and Best's contributions could not have weighed positively in Decca's evaluation.
However, even in the early sixties poor musicianship alone would not necessarily have caused their rejection - provided the classic Beatles harmony was working that day. I suspect it wasn't. |
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