According to the New York Post,
that is what John Lennon said
to Mitzi McCall and Charlie Brill
Exactly fifty years + one Sunday ago.
McCall & Brill were the comedy act
that preceded the Beatles' second set
on the Ed Sullivan Show on 2/9/64.
An audience of supersonically loud
teenagers were in no mood for
the unknown comedy duet
while the Beatles were
waiting in the wings.
The New York Post article begins:
Charlie Brill has a message for Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.
“You owe me a dime,” he wants the remaining Beatles to know...
Brill... gave Beatle John Lennon some change for a soda backstage at
“The Ed Sullivan Show” the night of the Liverpool lads’ American debut Feb. 9, 1964.
You can read that date on this image of a 48" by 16" section of a backdrop
drawn on and autographed by, from top to bottom:
Ringo Starr
George Harrison
Uncle Paul McCartney
John Lennon
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I hereby submit a recent headline from our good friends at Art Daily:
Beatles-signed backdrop from The Ed Sullivan Show, Feb. 9, 1964,
emerges for auction 50 years later
What may be the most unique "Beatles Autograph" is expected to sell
for $80,000.
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What may be the most reasonable settlement of John Lennon's unpaid
dime debt was suggested by Katrina Kompromise, an investigator
at the INSTITUTE OF INANE RESEARCH:
A dime is one/tenth of a dollar and 1/10 of ten cents is 1% of a dollar.
Let the auctioneer allocate 1% of the highest bid for the Beatles'
autographed backdrop and give it to Charlie Brill & Mitzi McCall.
That would be a very fair settlement of Mr. Lennon's debt.
The next Beatles' page is here.
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