Happy New Year!
1962: The Beatles with Pete Best still on drums audition for Decca Records in London. Decca A&R man Dick Rowe tells the boys’ manager, Brain Epstein, "Guitar groups are on the way out,” and instead signs Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, who also had a New Years’ audition. Rowe redeems himself by signing The Rolling Stones, Them (Van Morrison), The Moody Blues, The Zombies, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Tom Jones, and The Small Faces to Decca in the years after Beatlemania sweeps the UK.
