'He didn't really talk about The Beatles but he was a mentor to them' - Liverpool Echo
A plaque has been unveiled in the heart of Liverpool in honour of a Caribbean mentor of The Beatles. Lord Woodbine, born Harold Adolphus Phillips, came to Britain from Trinidad in 1943 and served as a Royal Air Force flight engineer during the Second World War.
He later returned to the UK in 1948 aboard the HMT Empire Windrush and settled in Liverpool where he performed as a musician, calypsonian, composer, band leader, and manager of The Jacaranda Club. Harold was said to be the first singer-songwriter John Lennon and Paul McCartney “ever encountered”. In a music scene dominated by cover acts, he did not tell the pair to write songs, he showed them that it was possible.
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