#33 Drummer Jimmy Nicol, who had been stand-in for tonsillitis-stricken Beatle Ringo Starr, sits alone and contemplative at Melbourne’s Essendon Airport, while waiting to return home; Ringo rejoined the Beatles the day before, 1964.

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Drummer Jimmy Nicol, who had been stand-in for tonsillitis-stricken Beatle Ringo Starr, sits alone and contemplative at Melbourne’s Essendon Airport, while waiting to return home; Ringo rejoined the Beatles the day before, 1964.

From Liverpool to the Ed Sullivan Stage: The Unstoppable Rise of 1964 Beatlemania

#33 Drummer Jimmy Nicol, who had been stand-in for tonsillitis-stricken Beatle Ringo Starr, sits alone and contemplative at Melbourne’s Essendon Airport, while waiting to return home; Ringo rejoined the Beatles the day before, 1964.

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