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Christopher Nigel Walley (born 30 June 1941) is an English former golfer and tea-chest bass player and manager, best known for his association with band The Quarrymen, the precursor of The Beatles which included John Lennon.
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We were just very good friends. He was a very funny person - we used to get into the usual scrapes - John was always a bit wild, wanting to stand out. The thing with John though was that he was as blind as a bat - he had glasses but he would never wear them. He was very vain about that. So if we were in a shop or out somewhere, John was always walk...
Well, it all started with Lonnie Donegan - he came along with Rock Island Line and he was the inspiration for The Quarrymen because anyone could play skiffle music - you just neededs guitars, a washboard, drums and a tea-chest for a bass... and then Elvis and Buddy Holly. We were always trying to check out the latest records by listening to Radio L...
John was always drawing cartoons - he was a great cartoonist - he could have made a living out of that. He was very witty, always deliberately getting people's names wrong. I think he always believed he would make it - become famous one day. We were always close and people sometimes forget I was with his mother when she was killed. That was an awfu...
Jun 19, 2019 · Christopher Nigel Walley, known to his friends as Nigel, Nige or "Wallogs" lived in Vale Road, Woolton, behind John Lennon's home on Menlove Avenue. Pete Shotton and Ivan Vaughan also lived in Vale Road and together they formed John Lennon's first gang.
Mar 29, 2021 · John's friend, Nigel Walley, was the last person Julia spoke to before the fatal accident. He recalled what had happened after he accompanied her to the bus stop on Liverpool's Menlove Avenue, explaining that he "must have been about 15 yards up the road" when he heard a car skidding and saw Julia "going through the air" before she ...
Jul 15, 2019 · Nigel Walley was with Julia Lennon when she was killed by a car in 1958. He shared his memories of John Lennon's mother and the impact of her loss on the Beatles legend in a documentary film.
Jun 25, 2023 · In a rare interview, Nigel Walley talks about John Lennon, The Quarrymen, and how The Quarrymen got into the Cavern Club in early 1957. Nigel Walley was inte...
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Nigel Walley from Decipher summarises his speech, TV & The Web Collide.Filmed for The Beak Street Bugle at the Advertising Producers Association's (APA) conf...
