Found this on the net on www.scs.unr.edu/*fdaniels/stuff/tony.htm (The * stands for the squiggly wave symbol - my keyboard doesn't have it) - Can't do the blue clicky - but the way I got to the website was a Google Search "Tony Sheridan and the" and this is the first site at the top of the list.

Anyway it talks about a single recorded for Polydor "My Bonnie/When the Saints" in 1961-62 by "Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers": "As Tony recalls it, Beat Brothers was used instead of Beatles, because 'Beatles' sounded a lot like the German slang word for penis, which was 'peedles'."

Now, I know quite a few German names for this part of the anatomy (please don't ask me how !) but I've never come across a "Piedel".

The name certainly didn't stop the Beatles becoming popular in Germany later on !

Wolfgang - Hilfe, bitte !

- jeanie