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Harold Adolphus Phillips (15 January 1929 – 5 July 2000), known as Lord Woodbine, was a Trinidadian calypsonian and music promoter. He is regarded by some as the musical mentor of The Beatles, and has been called the "sixth Beatle".
Lord Woodbine: The forgotten sixth Beatle. Lord Woodbine taught the Fab Four the blues– but was written out of pop history. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and James McGrath pay tribute. Ahomeless...
Dec 15, 2009 · Lord Woodbine, often known as Woodie, booked The Beatles to play at the club a number of times, although in their pre-Brian Epstein days they often arrived to play with missing equipment or band members.
Lord Woodbine was the first singer-songwriter the boys would meet and he became an early promoter of their band. Allan Williams would manage them. By 1960, Lord Woodbine left the All Caribbean Steel Band and put together the Rhythm Calypso Boys, a group that fused calypso with electric guitars.
Jan 15, 2022 · Remembering Lord Woodbine. The event looks back at the life and times of WWII RAF ex-serviceman Harold Phillips aka Lord Woodbine who was the first musical mentor of The Beatles. He was 19 years of age after arriving on the Empire Windrush on 22 June 1948 and later settled in Liverpool.
Jul 23, 2020 · Today Roag is looking at some of the items relating to Harold Philips, also known as Lord Wordbine, that we have on display in the museumLord Woodbine was a ...
Dec 15, 2020 · Lord Woodbine Born Laventille, Trinidad in 1929Same day as Martin Luther King – came Lord WoodbineHis mother arrived from the Spice Isle – they call GrenadaW...
Phillips, Harold Adolphus [known as Lord Woodbine] (1929–2000), calypsonian and music promoter, was born on 15 January 1929 in Laventille, Trinidad, the fifth of the seven children of James Phillips, a Venezuelan-born butcher, and his wife, Edna, who was originally from Grenada.
A rare recording of Lord Woodbine being interviewed (and talking about The Beatles) starts at 21.30 and is a clip from a BBC Radio Merseyside documentary titled The Long Journey Home (broadcast 15th June 1998).
The venue, known affectionately as "The Jac", quickly became a central spoke of the Liverpool music scene, with Williams' friend and sometime business partner, the Trinidadian calypso singer, songwriter and music promoter Lord Woodbine, occupying a nightly residency slot and providing a focal point for many young local musicians.
