Comments on: Raymond Jones

By: lisa Gilbert

lisa Gilbert — Fri, 26 May 2017 07:25:22 +0000

It’s so good to read about an actual piece of beatles history from the person involved,imagine the outcome of you had not asked for that record? Come and see me if your ever back in Liverpool I work in the Beatles story ?

By: YS Short Tie Girl

YS Short Tie Girl — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:37:32 +0000

Wait, WAIT! Don’t tell me that was the real Raymond Jones who commented on here!

By: Marc venditto

Marc venditto — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 17:46:06 +0000

A bit of truth not a spin or a version! So refreshing

By: Graham Gleave

Graham Gleave — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 15:40:45 +0000

Hi Ray Graham here, do you remember taking my dog Rocky for a walk.?

By: tony ball

tony ball — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:26:10 +0000

We lived our youth through the Beatles nothing could go wrong birds motorbikes (all British) and Beatles music playing from every fairground Born in 49 I enjoyed my teenage years to Beatle music and still playin them as a pensioner. My regards to Pete Best by the way.

By: marcelojzamboni

marcelojzamboni — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 18:47:03 +0000

Ray. Hi I´m from Argentina. Far away from Spain or England, I Love Beatles music and all their story. Would you tell me what you fell the first time you saw them play? Was it at the Cavern? Did you know Brian Epstein before that?
My best regards

By: Olivia (a simple fan from the Philippines)

Olivia (a simple fan from the Philippines) — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:13:51 +0000

I was born almost 30 years after Sir Raymond brought The Beatles’ existence to Sir Brian..
and for me honestly, this is something to treasure. Knowing that on the day that I was born something REALLY historical happened.

Regards to all of you. 🙂

By: Gilbert Alomenu

Gilbert Alomenu — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 05:17:07 +0000

Hi Raymond.I would really like to interview you.I am glad to know you really exist(as I always suspected was the case). I’ve heard Alastair Taylor say at a Beatles convention that he just made the name up, and also Bob Wooler say at a Beatles convention that this is not true, that you really did exist.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 07:32:57 +0000

I’m glad you posted here! There are so many people who associated with The Beatles trying to snag up whatever they can, if they think it can’t be disproven, or the real people most likely will never see it and come forward.

It’s really cool to learn the truth about your small role in Beatles’ history and to have you call one of the many re-writers of Beatles history on their lies.

By: Jim Mawer

Jim Mawer — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 21:03:07 +0000

HI Ray, for what it’s worth, through encouragement from friends and family, I too am writing my memoirs of my “”colourful” early years of being lucky to have, like you, lived my young life through the 50’s and 60’s in and around the great City of Liverpool! Yes, totally “caught up” in the music scene, meeting and seeing those great groups! I was born in the Dingle in 1945, moving to Speke, then moving to Page Moss in 1952. The “notorious” Hambleton Hall, I still bear a few “minor scars” from the unavoidable “skirmishes” with the “headcases” of the time! LOL!! Huyton was a tough place to live! (circa ’60/’62} I went to Art school, and worked part time in Coopers Food Hall (screen print/ticket office) so, as the Cavern was only a few minutes walk, I too spent most lunchtimes in there!! That smell..Dettol???? my boss would say ” you stink of that cellar! why d’you waste your lunchtimes in there”?? little did he know! Anyway Ray, I moved to London Sept.1966, a very good decision, finally settling here in Sunny Spain!
I wouldn’t be surprised if our paths had crossed on the odd occasion, although you are older than I. Like so many kids I picked up the guitar and played around town but, as you know like hundred of groups we never made the “big time”!! Did a little better in London though!
Ray, thanks for taking the time to read my note, and, it would be a pleasure to cross check a few old stories with you, would that be possible? much appreciated, Hope to hear back from you.
My best regards……………Jim. Mawer

By: John Laster (from Texas and currently in Afghanistan)

John Laster (from Texas and currently in Afghanistan) — Sun, 26 May 2013 14:57:02 +0000

James Skilton – as a Beatles fan (from Texas) I would love to get a copy of your book. Is it yet available, and by what title? My earliest memories of The Beatles were buying an album and falling for Eight Days a Week. I also had a sitter take me to the movie theater in a very small Texas town to watch them. The girls in the Theater (25 cents admisssion) were screaming so loud I had to cover my ears! lol

By: Raymond Jones

Raymond Jones — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:00:19 +0000

Hi James,
anything to put the truth out there

By: James Skilton

James Skilton — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:42:58 +0000

Hello Raymond, I have interviewed Alistair Taylor and Bob Wooler and through my Beatles research they both mentioned you. Would you be open to a phone interview for my book of memoirs which I an compiling? It will include over 100 artists involved with Beatles pre and post. Thanks

By: McLennonSon

McLennonSon — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:47:21 +0000

Wow… A piece of ACTUAL BEATLES HISTORY has wrote into a Beatles web-site not created by themselves….

THAT’S AWESOME!!!!!

By: Doreen Adams, (Robinson).

Doreen Adams, (Robinson). — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:10:14 +0000

Hi Ray, its been a long time, 46 years i think.Hope you are keeping well, i know you have a few health problems but we are all getting older. I remember seeing a article in a news`paper wanting to now the whereabouts of a boy in a black leather jacket who went in to NEMS record shop asked if they have the record, My Bonnie by the Beatles, he was told they had never heard of it, or the Beatles. I rang my uncle (Ron Billingsley) a friend of Ray Jones, told him someone was looking for Ray. I knew Ray had been in to NEMS and asked about the record. Take care Ray.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:46:38 +0000

Hi Ray, John Sloan my uncle said you were living near him in Spain, he lives outside Malaga.How’s the family doing?

By: Raymond Jones

Raymond Jones — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:00:45 +0000

Hi Ken,
Its been a long time since I’ve heard from you. Thanks for your support regarding my association with the Beatles. There have been many claims and counter claims,theory’s The truth is out now in a couple of books The Best of Fellas written by Spencer Leigh of BBC Radio Merseyside, this book is all about Bob Wooler The DJ at the Cavern.
Another book Ten years thet Shook the World, published by Mojo Publication.

All the lies by Alister Taylor I think was just to give him his fifteen minutes of fame and of course just to feather his nest.

By the way I did not go to McCartneys 21st.

Thanks once again for telling your story.

So many people find it very hard to believe my story, but i’m afraid its true. It was me who went into NEM’s and asked Brian Epstein for the record and yes it is all true what he said in the book.

Still alive and kicking,

RAYMOND JONES

By: Dave Cullen

Dave Cullen — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:00:03 +0000

Let’s try and put everyone straight once and for all..There was a Ray Jones who worked in a printers in Tithebarn Street, Liverpool, who did go into NEMS and ask for The Beatles record of ‘My Bonnie’.
Ray is a very good friend of mine, and back in the early 60’s Ray and I played our guitars (sing-a-long) at The Wheatsheaf Hotel on East Prescot Road most Saturday nights. I knew that he’d gone into NEMS and asked for ‘My Bonnie’.
I’d not heard it, and Ray was always quite keen to play it. He knew that The Beatles (we found out at a later date that they were shown on the record as The Beat Boys), had played on the record and it is very possible that he may have heard them playing it at The Cavern or Casbah. However, as he worked in town he went into NEMS and asked for the record, leaving his name and address should they get hold of a copy.
I remember him bringing his signed copy of Cellerfull of Noise into The Wheatsheaf on a Saturday night a few years later, packed in a box.
He was always (and still does) going on about The Beatles, and as they became famous and released their own songs, the more Ray and I played and sang them at The Wheatsheaf, and later at The King Edward in the City Centre.
Ray has lived in Spain for the past 15 years, and we’re still in contact.
Let it be known, THERE WAS…AND STILL IS..A RAY JONES…THE VERY ONE WHO WENT INTO NEMS AND ASKED FOR ‘MY BONNIE’

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:37:19 +0000

I worked for Ray Jones in 1973-74 and he did ask Brian for the record, he went to Paul’s 21st. He was given an autographed copy of ” a CELLARFUL OF NOISE” and is now retired and living in Spain.