Tuesday, 14th March, 1961 An easy day for The Beatles today with just a lunch time gig at The Cavern Club on Matthew Street. Normally The Beatles played at The Cavern on Monday, Wednesday and Friday lunch times, but for some reason this week the schedule changed with them playing each day Monday through Thursday.
Monday, 13th March, 1961 The Beatles started the day with their regular Monday lunch time gig at The Cavern Club on Matthews Street. In the evening they once more played for Sam Leach at The Liverpool Jazz Society at what was becoming and increasingly regular venue for the group.
Due out April 11, The Capital Albums Volume 2 is the second box set collecting the Beatles output as originally presented by their U.S. record label in the 1960s. Remastered in 24-bit sound, it includes both the mono and stereo mixes of The Early Beatles, Beatles VI, Help! and Rubber Soul. So how are these different from [...]
In his new book, “Here There and Everywhere : My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles,” due out later this week, recording engineer Geoff Emerick promise to reveal a true insider’s story of what it was like to work with The Fab Four in the studio.
In a 90 Minute Pay-Per-View Special to Debut in iN DEMAND on April 24th a group of world renowned psychics will conduct a seance in an attempt to contact the spirit of John Lennon. The psychics will travel to various sites significant to the former Beatle. Outside the Dakota building in New York, in the [...]
Sunday, 12th March, 1961 The Beatles started off the day at The Casbah Coffee Club for their usual Sunday lunch time engagement before heading off to the Cassanova Club on London Road where they appeared with Kingsize Taylor and The Dominoes. Â
Saturday, 11th March, 1961 The Beatles kicked off the evening with another gig at the Aintree Institute, before heading of to the Liverpool Jazz Society on Temple Street for the first in a series of “BIG BEAT SESSIONS.” These were the brain child of innovative promoter Sam Leach who promised a full 12 hours of music [...]
Friday, 10th March, 1961 Another busy Friday for The Beatles, starting off with the second of that week’s lunch time gigs at The Cavern Club. In the afternoon the boys headed across the Mersey to start their evening with a second gig at The Grosvener Ballroom in Liscard. This turned out to be the last date [...]
Ringo Starr has announced some details of his upcoming 2006 tour. The tour will be produced by The House Of Blues and feature the 9th incarnation of the All Starr Band. This year’s line up includes Rod Argent, Mark Hudson, Richard Marx, Billy Squier, Sheila E and Mark Rievra. The tour wil run from June 14th [...]
In 1966 Capitol Records in the US decided to pull together an album of various Beatles tracks under the title of Yesterday and Today. Once the advance copies of the album reached radio stations and journalists it became an immediate sensation, but not for the music. The cover was an image of The fab Four [...]
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Alan J. Porter has been a Beatles fan since he first saw them perform on a regional British TV show back in 1963 when he was just a wee lad. He is the author of the critically acclaimed BEFORE THEY WERE BEATLES and occasional contributor to Beatlology Magazine. He now lives in Central Texas and occasionally writes about things other than The Fab Four. You can find out more here.
