Sunday 19th February, 1961 The Beatles appeared once more at The Casbah Club in West Derby as part of their continuing engagement with owner / manager Mona Best.

It was announced lats Friday (17th, February) that The Who will play the England’s Summer Pops concert in Liverpool on July 5th and 6th. This will the first time The Who have played Liverpool in 40 years and this time they will have Ringo’s son Zak Starkey on drums.

Saturday, February 18th, 1961 The Beatles returned once more to the Aintree Institute in Aintree for their only gig this Saturday evening. They had been scheduled to play at The Casanova Club earlier in the evening but they were “withdrawn from the engagement” and rescheduled for the 28th.

John Lennon’s boyhood friend David Ashton recently unearthed a drawing done by John in an old sketch book shortly after the pair had been to look at a beached whale that was stranded on the banks of the River Mersey in September of 1953, when John was 13 years old. So was this boyhood sketch [...]

Friday 17th February, 1961 On this Friday evening The Beatles played at a new venue, The St. John’s Hall on Snaefell Avenue in the Tuebrook area of Liverpool. Pete Best’s mother, Mona Best (owner of the Casbah Coffee Club), sometimes also promoted dances at this venue not far from their home in West Derby. As [...]

A few days before the opening of an exhibit of her photographs at a San Francsico gallery, Patti Boyd spoke of her memories of ex-husband George Harrison. Pausing in front of her photo of Harrison and her second husband blues guitar maestro Eric Clapton together with cigarettes in their hands in the mid-1970s, she reflected on [...]

Thursday 16th, February 1961 In a repeat of their schedule of just two nights before The Beatles once more played two gigs in the evening, starting out at the Cassanova Club on London Street in the city center and then moving North into the suburbs to play at the Litherland Town Hall.

 Wednesday 15th February 1961 Another day with two evening gigs on The Beatles apparent non-stop schedule around Liverpool. First gig of the evening was the regular Wednesday eveing spot at The Aintree Institute in Aintree, a suburb in the North of Liverpool. Then it was on to Hambleton Hall a run-down municipal building on St David’s Rd in the [...]

Tuesday 14th February, 1961 The Beatles played two gigs on this Valentine’s Day. The first was at the Cassanova Club on London Road. The various Handbills and Posters for the gig credited The Beatles as the creators of a local foot-stomping dance craze called “The Atom Beat.” In 1996 a 35 second piece of color, [...]

According to several newspaper reports Paul McCartney left the recent Grammys show in a huff after he didn’t win the Best Album award for Chaos & Creation In The Backyard. The UK’s Daily Mirror reports that according to Fox News columnist, Roger Friedman: “After it was announced that U2′s How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb [...]