Billy Hatton obituary

Founding member of the 1960s Liverpool pop group the Fourmost who shared similar origins to the Beatles but testy relations with the young John LennonBilly Hatton, who has died aged 76, was the bass player and harmony singer with the Fourmost, the Liverpool beat group signed in 1963 with the Beatles manager Brian Epstein’s NEMS company.Their first hits, Hello Little Girl and I’m In Love, released later that year, were produced by George Martin and written by John Lennon and Paul McCa