Keno's Weekly Beatles Poll

POLL RESULTS
Week: 433
Date: 7/15/2019
Question: Who was the most important supporting band member (musicians only) working with the Beatles? (with 3 or more appearances)
Your Vote Option Votes Percent
  George Martin - Played keyboards on 32 songs including 'A Hard Day’s Night', 'Rock and Roll Music', and 'In My Life'
410 40.2%
  Billy Preston - Keyboardist on 14 songs, including most songs on Let it Be LP, also played with them on the roof at their last concert
182 17.8%
  Sidney Sax - Played violin on at least 9 Beatles songs including 'Yesterday', 'Eleanor Rigby', and 'A Day in the Life'
168 16.5%
  Mal Evans - Played harmonica, keys, trumpet, & percussion on 9 different songs including 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' and 'Birthday'
164 16.1%
  Brian Jones - Played sax on 'You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)' and percussion/backing vocals on 'Yellow Submarine' & 'All You Need is Love'
54 5.3%
  David Mason - Contributed trumpet to 'All You Need Is Love', 'A Day in the Life' and 'Penny Lane'
10 1%
  Chris Thomas - Contributed keyboards to 'The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill', 'Long Long Long', 'Piggies', & 'Savoy Truffle'
8 0.8%
  Andy White - Played drums on 'Please Please Me', 'Love Me Do' and 'P.S. I Love You'
6 0.6%
  Rex Morris - Contributed saxophone to 'All You Need Is Love' and 'Honey Pie'; and trombone to 'Revolution 1'
6 0.6%
  Reginald Kilbey - Contributed cello to 'Glass Onion', 'Martha My Dear', 'Piggies', and 'Within You Without You'
3 0.3%
  Pattie Boyd - Contributed vocals to 'All You Need Is Love','Birthday', and 'Yellow Submarine'
2 0.2%
  Pete Best - original drummer played on 10 of their earliests songs including 'Cry for a Shadow'
2 0.2%
  Eldon Fox - Contributed cello to 'Glass Onion', 'I Am the Walrus' and 'Piggies'
1 0.1%
  Erich Gruenberg - Contributed violin to 'A Day in the Life', 'She's Leaving Home', and 'Within You Without You'
1 0.1%
  Klaus Voormann - Played bass with the Beatles in the Hamburg clubs after Stu Sutcliffe left to return to art school in Hamburg
1 0.1%
  Neil Sanders - Contributed French horn to 'A Day in the Life', 'I Am the Walrus' and 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'
1 0.1%
  Yoko Ono - Contributed vocals to 'Birthday', 'The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill', 'What's the New Mary Jane' and 'Revolution 9'
1 0.1%
  Jimmie Nicol - Played drums for the first eight shows of The Beatles' 1964 world tour while filling in for Ringo
0 0%
  Pete Shotton - Played washboard in the original lineup and played percussion on some early studio recordings
0 0%
  Stuart Sutcliffe - original bassist played on 3 songs including 'Cayenne'
0 0%
Totals: 1020 100%

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