Pun [This post is under construction.]

 

     This is a follow-up to my October 2nd, 2025 post: 'My Steel Trap Mind!'; in particular, to the addendum, wherein I related the number of years it took myself and Trish to realize the deliberately placed pun in the The Beatles' name.

    Somehow, I momentarily forgot that I had made mention of the matter, and started to create a new post, falsely assuming the anecdote about The Fab Four, Trish, and I, had been overlooked.

    I'm glad to learn that such was not the case, but in doing a little background research on the logo I had intended to use to head this post making up for that presumed lapse, I nevertheless learned a few bits of nifty trivia along the way. 

    So I am going to continue with the post and use the follow-up instead to share those Beatlemaniacal tidbits I discovered!

 

 

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First Incarnation: Ivor Arbiter’s April 1963 design, hand painted by Eddie Stokes.

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Paul McCartney’s 1962 design.

 

 

 

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Raw source information (quickly jotted down):

 

April 1963 Drum City London Owned by Ivor David Arbiter, who quickly designed the logo, was an English drum designer, manufacturer, instrument salesman, and entrepreneur, who in his early career, was the owner and operator of Drum City, a specialty drum shop in the West End of London. He sketched a logo mock-up on the back of a cigarette package and paid a local sign-maker, Eddie Stokes, five pounds to paint the logo on the drum head.

Brian Epstein and Ringo Starr


Eddy Stokes painted it

Total cost for the logo: £5

May 12, 1963 Ringo takes possession of the drum just in time for the band's headline appearance on 'Thank Your Lucky Stars' hosted by Brian Matthew
Drum used from then till February 4, 1964
February 9, 1964 Ed Sullivan appearance used a new Ludwig with a slightly modified font with the letters of the logo a little larger overall and thicker

In all there were four Ludwig drum kits with seven different hand painted skins used by the end of The Beatles career

Ludwig Oyster Black Drum Kit

Collector Russ W. Lease one time owner of the second drum skin (Paul McCartney is believed to still own the first skin)

The Beatles Drop T Logo Story 

 

 

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