GUARDIAN - On the same day that Keyboardist Billy Preston, the so-called "fifth Beatle" died, so to has Jennifer Winmill, the so-called "one thousand and fifty third Beatle".Winmill had played an integral part in the success of The Beatles by attending their concert in Sidcup, Kent, U.K. (near Rose Bruford College) She can be seen in photos of the audience for the 1964 gig second from the left and about nine deep in the picture. (right)
Obviously she didn't have as much of a part to play as the "Sixth Beatle", George Martin, or the "Seventh Beatle" and original member Stu Sutcliffe, or Eric Clapton, the "Eighth Beatle", stealer of George Harrison's girlfriend and guitarist responsible for the guitar solo on the track My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Beatles number nine through to fifty seven can be accounted for by various production engineers working at the Abbey Road studio and a long lost aunt of Ringo's who provided the inspiration for the film A Hard Day's Night.
Ironically, Ringo Starr himself has always been considered as somewhere between t
he six hundred and forteenth and seven hundred and eighty ninth "Beatle".If you are wondering if the number one Beatle is Paul or John, you'd be wrong. It is actually Yoko Ono. Without her, The Beatles wouldn't have broken up and after the shooting (that would have happened anyway) the band would have ended up resorting to a Rock Star style TV show to find a replacement for John. And somehow I don't think they'd still be as popular if that was the case.
So we can all thank her for something.
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