Mike Smith Passes On 50 years after Turning Down The Beatles

[peregrine9]

Liverpool Beat
January 2012
Mike Smith Passes On 50 years after Turning Down The Beatles

Mike Smith sadly passed on in December 2011 almost fifty years after that momentous day when he turned down the Beatles and instead gave a recording contract to Brian Poole & The Tremoloes.Mike however, had some tremendous successes in his career, and I must say that having heard the Beatles recordings completed on 1st January 1962, I can understand why he might have made his decision. Whether it was the fact that The Beatles had a bad day or perhaps, as I suspect, it was a little too early in their career, is open to opinion. One thing is for sure, the band were an entirely different proposition just a few months later.
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http://www.liverpoolbeat.com/Mike-Smith-The-Man-Who-Turned-Down-The-Beatles.html

[Greg]

Please let no one forget how many times Capitol Records turned down The Beatles.  EMI had to let Global "Something?" license the rights to Swan, Vee Jay, etc. because Capitol wanted no part of the fab's songs. 

Anyway, I thought Smith got them the audition but Rowe declined them.  Did Smith have a hand in this too?