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In June 1964, the world tour began. We went to Scandinavia, Holland, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand. Ringo missed part of the tour because he was in hospital with tonsillitis. We couldn’t cancel, so the idea was to get a stand-in. We got Jimmy Nicol, a session drummer from London. He played well - obviously not the same as Ringo, but he covered well.
It wasn’t an easy thing for Jimmy to stand in for Ringo, and have all that fame thrust upon him. And the minute his tenure was over, he wasn’t famous any more: ‘I was the guy who stood in for Ringo!’ But he did great and Ringo joined us out in Australia when he had recovered.
” — Paul McCartney“When I was on the plane back to London, I felt like a bastard child being sent back home from a family that didn’t want me. When you have had the best, you can’t accept anything else.” — Jimmy Nicol
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Source: Beatles Bible
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“It was great being back with the boys and back in the band.” — Ringo Starr in the Beatles Anthology
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