Blue-Jean Bop

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Blue-Jean Bop is a song by Gene Vincent. In The Beatles Anthology book, George Harrison implied that The Beatles played it live around 1960. No recording of The Beatles' version is known to exist.

[edit] Live Performances

It was implied by George Harrison that The Beatles learned Blue-Jean Bop while playing long night shows in Hamburg in 1960. He is quoted as saying, "We had to learn millions of songs. We had to play so long we just played everything. So it was all the Gene Vincent - we'd do everything on the album; not just a lazy Blue-Jean Bop, whatever. We'd get a Chuck Berry record, and learn it all, same with Little Richard, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino - everything. But we'd also do things like Moonglow, which we used to play as an instrumental. Anything, because we'd be on for hours - we'd make up stuff. Hamburg was really like our apprenticeship, learning how to play in front of people."

[edit] Personnel

• Rythm Guitar: John Lennon
• Rythm Guitar: Paul McCartney
• Lead Guitar: George Harrison
• Bass: Stuart Sutcliffe
• Drums: Pete Best

[edit] Source

• LENNON, J., MCCARTNEY P., HARRION G., STARKEY R., 2002, The Beatles Anthology, Chronicle Books -- Buy it on Amazon.com