In 1964, New York City Disjockey, Murray the Kaye, humorously dubbed himself the Fifth

Beetle due to his early promotion of the Beatles on his radio program.

Since then, almost two dozen other people have been dubbed The Fifth Beetle due to their contributions

to the band.

Some people dubbed the Fifth Beetle were even given the moniker by members of the band themselves.

Learn more about the people who have been dubbed The Fifth Beetle on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by the Travel Photography Academy. In 2007 I sold my home to travel around the world. I bought an

expensive camera that I didn't know how to use and took a bunch of terrible photos.

Several years, 100 countries, and tens of thousands of photos later, I'd improved my photography to the point where I was winning national awards, being named Travel Photographer the Year three times in North America.

I created the Travel Photography Academy so you don't have to spend the many years that

I did to improve your photography. Even though we can't easily travel right now, you can still

work on improving your photography at home and in your own community.

Just go to travel photography academy.com or click on the link in the show notes to start

improving your photography today. In case you've just discovered civilization after being in the wilderness for the last half century,

the Beatles were a four-person band out of Liverpool, England.

The band members were George Harrison on lead guitar,

John Lennon on rhythm guitar, Paul McCartney on bass guitar,

and Richard Starkley, aka Ringo Star on drums. After Lenin-McCarty and Harrison played together for a few

years, they formed the Beatles in 1960, and in 1963 they took the world by storm in what

became known as Beatle-Mania. As I noted in the

introduction in 1964 a New York DJ jokingly called himself the fifth

beetle due to his work in promoting the band on his radio show. After that, the phrase, The Fifth Beetle, began being used to describe

other people who were associated with the band or who had a part to play in their success.

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