![]() James reportedly picked up the phone and called his friend Philip Jones who booked Thank Your Lucky Stars, the second most influential TV pop show at the time after the BBC’s Juke Box Jury. The well-heeled Epstein, “a little nonplussed by shabby office, asked what James thought he could do for the Beatles that EMI’s publicity department had not already done,” in Norman’s telling ( Shout!, p. George Martin recommended James, his friend, as a hungry independent publisher with a deep rolodex to help pitch the Beatles’ second single “Please Please Me.” (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Imagesĭick James, born Leon Isaac Vapnick, had been an English music hall singer for decades before departing the taverns and caverns for the desk chair. The day before, shares in the company had become available to the public. ![]() ![]() British music publisher Dick James (1920 - 1986), managing director of the Beatles' company Northern. ![]()
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