Eight Days A Week by Graham Hutchins

Author:Graham Hutchins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History/Australia & New Zealand
ISBN: 9780775591849
Publisher: Exisle Publishing
Published: 2009-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

A new era. Young people just wanted to see the Beatles.

And despite their elements of Englishness, the Beatles became popular with Maori people, for whom music, particularly of the uplifting, melodic type, has always settled well. And the Beatles enjoyed the Maori people. They did the hongi with them. Shared poi. Ringo had the nose for the hongi. Ringo at the time was singing as his vocal spotlight ‘Boys’, a song originally sung by the all-girl group the Shirelles. He sang ‘Boys’ on the New Zealand tour and it didn’t strike anyone as being unusual that Ringo, a boy, should be singing ‘Boys’. Shouldn’t he have been singing ‘Girls’? His next vocal spotlight was ‘I wanna be your man’, which seemed more appropriate.

No one gave a crap back then in ’64 that Ringo was singing a girl’s song. In any case, the way it came across made it sound more like a reaffirmation of boys – Ringo and his Beatle mates. The joy of being a boy in a band that had come out of the Liverpool slime to take over the world. ‘Yeah, yeah, boys’. In an age of comparative innocence, issues of gender, race and agendas were small cheese.

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