Terry Doran

Terry Doran (born 1936) is a former business associate of the English rock band the Beatles and manager of the pop group Grapefruit. With the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, he co-owned Brydor Cars, which supplied sportscars to many figures in the Swinging London era, including members of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Doran managed the Beatles' company Apple Publishing in the late 1960s. Following the band's break-up in 1970, he worked as the estate manager at George Harrison's Friar Park property and managed Harrison's London office of Dark Horse Records. He is often cited as the inspiration behind the line "Meeting a man from the motor trade" in the Beatles' 1967 song "She's Leaving Home", although Paul McCartney himself denied the story.

Career

Doran met Brian Epstein, who was then managing the Epstein family's NEMS record stores, in a Liverpool pub in 1959 and the pair became immediate friends. Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn describes Doran as "a car salesman with a sharp mind and a ready Liverpool wit". Doran met the Beatles in the early 1960s, shortly after Epstein had become the band's manager. He worked for Hawthorne Motors, a car dealership in Warrington, and sold the first car owned by a member of the Beatles – a blue Ford Anglia – to George Harrison, the youngest member of the group. In exchange for the reasonable terms offered by Doran, Harrison agreed to pose with his bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and the car, in an advertisement for Hawthorne. The ad appeared in the local Mersey Beat music newspaper in July 1962, at a time when the Beatles' popularity had yet to expand beyond the north of England and the club circuit in Hamburg. Doran then supplied the band – who were soon to fire Pete Best as their drummer and possibly lose their means of transport to gigs – with an eight-seater Ford Thames van, which NEMS purchased on the group's behalf.

Having joined Epstein and the Beatles in London, Doran worked as manager of Apple Publishing in 1967 and later managed the band Grapefruit. He also enjoyed success as the manager of Apple Records artist Mary Hopkin, although Hopkin later said she was highly dissatisfied with his management.

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