Beatles-Era Bass Player from Liverpool – Killed In the Vietnam War by Friendly Fire

[Pattaya One]

Above Photo: John Shell (right) onstage with the Hideaways in the old Beatles haunt, the Cavern Club, in Mathew Street, Liverpool.

I recently read about a bass player from a Liverpool band who was killed in action during the Vietnam War.

John in Vietnam in 1968. (Suzanne Bibby)

John Shell was a twenty-year old Liverpudlian, who played bass in a band called the Hideaways, who regularly played at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles first had their break.

John had dual US and British citizenship, and, even though he'd lived in Liverpool since he was a child, he felt the call to arms and went to fight in Vietnam at the age of twenty, serving with the 1st Infantry Division, north-east of Saigon, where he was killed within three months of the start of his tour of duty.

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[swagman]

In 68' many guys who could were dodging the draft (over 210.000) some even jumped across to Canada or over to Europe to get away from a deeply unpopular, unwinnable & very stupid conflict. 

 

Only a thick Scouser would go the other way!  lol

 

John Lennon handed back his MBE over the UK's support.

 

I wonder - was he dodging the UK police for some serious crime?

 

Coz it seems a bit extreme if one's only guilty of sloppy bass playing! (like Mc Cartney)