And I changed the BEA, because 'beetles' didn't mean two things on its own. Beetles were little insects, so that took care of that, but with an 'A' it became something to do with beat" (Miles, page 52). Lennon confirms this: "I was looking for a name like The Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. But we were turned on like nobody's business by the idea of a double meaning, so with our wit and wisdom and whatever, we wanted something that would have a double meaning. What a fantastic idea, it's a little grasshopper, and it's a game.' Well, they came over, they had no fucking idea cricket was a game, to them it was just a little chirping grasshopper from Texas, so it was actually quite a boring name. Quoting Paul McCartney: "I remember talking to John about this. As influential as Little Richard was on the young Beatles, Buddy Holly was even more so.įirst of all, Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets, inspired the Beatles own insectoid name.
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