when Paul McCartney and John Lennon visited to meet Ringo Starr, who was playing drums with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes at the time, to offer Starr the drummer's position with The Beatles, who had just secured a recording contract. Storm's group had a summer booking at the camp, following on from the previous year. It was in 1960, whilst playing Butlin's Pwllheli camp, that Richard Starkey used his stage name Ringo Starr. The first song McCartney himself ever sang in public was "Long Tall Sally", at a Butlin's talent competition. For several years between 1956 and 1959, the comedian and TV presenter Dave Allen worked as a Redcoat at the camp. Allen found that he could not escape it, saying, "You can't get away once they know you—unless you lock yourself in your chalet. If you put on a moustache and dark glasses they'd think you were doing a stunt." Other acts who have performed at the camp during the careers include Laurel and Hardy, T'Pau, and Suzi Quatro. In his 2010 book How to Land an A330 Airbus (And Other Vital Skills for the Modern Man), James May included a section entitled "How to Escape from Butlins" – specifically, Butlins Skegness in the event of hostile forces using it as an internment camp. He reasoned that it had already proved easily convertible to a naval base and that Britain was unprepared for sudden invasions as a result of overseas deployments. He suggests a tunnel in the style of The Great Escape, only with help from a microboring machine to aid the process, from a chalet to the static caravan park. In September 2016, after Burning Man organizers concocted a PR stunt claiming David Bowie's ashes had been publicly dispersed on the playa that year, Bowie's son Duncan Jones denied the claim, jocularly adding, "We all know if dad DID want his ashes scattered in front of strangers, it would be at the Skegness Butlins." He later confirmed this as a joke. Entertainment The Skegness camp contained all the standard Butlins entertainment ingredients: Butlins Redcoats, a funfair, a ballroom, a boating lake, tennis courts, a sports field (for the three legged and egg & spoon races and the donkey derby), table tennis and snooker tables, amusement arcades, a theatre, arcades of shops, a chairlift system and a miniature railway. Butlins Skegness developed the Ex More Adventures which include a