Friday, 15th December, 1961 The Beatles once again pulled double duty with another lunch time performance at The Cavern followed by another Friday night trip over the Mersey to the Tower Ballroom in New Brighton for another of Sam Leach’s “Operation Big Beat” shows. This evening the show lasted five and half hours with the [...]
According to report on 24dash.com, Ringo Starr is making a documentary about his life. The Beatles legend is tired of hearing myths and lies about himself and has decided to reveal the truth He said: “It’s an anthology we are doing on me.”  The 66-year-old drummer, who battled alcoholism after The Beatles split, will film [...]
Wednesday, 13th December, 1961 The Beatles played two gigs at The Cavern today, one at lunch time and one in the evening. The evening performance was attended by Mike Smith the A&R (artist and repetoire) assistant from Decca Records who had travelled up from London with a view to signing The Beatles to a British [...]
Over at Beatles.com a new promo video for the track “Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows” from the LOVE album, has been posted. The video was simltanously released on MySpace and You Tube and you can see it below. LOVE MAP The Beatles.com newsletter reports that 50,000 people logged in to preview the LOVE [...]
Monday, 11th December, 1961 Following their travels over the weekend, The Beatles settle in to another week of gigs in the familiar surroundings of The Cavern with a lunch time performance.
Sunday, 10th December, 1961 Following their early morning partying in London The Beatles once more crowded into the van for the long and uncomfortable journey back to Liverpool. The trip took so long that they arrived in Liverpool late for their advertised gig at The Hambleton Hall in Huyton and only had time to perform [...]
The Fab Four on stage in Munich, Germany singing “Nowhere Man.” This was the second of two performances at the Circus-Krone-Bau that day (24th June 1966) and was filmed by the German TV network ZDF for a program on the group entitled “Die Beatles” that was transmitted on 5th July.Â
Saturday, 9th December, 1961 Today was the day of perhaps the most infamous gig of The Beatles early years. Thanks to the ambitious promoter Sam Leach The Beatles took their first steps to reach a wider audience, an hopefully attract the attention of a London based record executive, by agreeing to play a gig in [...]
According to the News-Antique website The BEATLES 1964 Detroit Concert Film with Copyright will be sold Dec. 16 in the ItsOnlyRockNRoll.com Catalog Auction along with other rare Beatles collectibles, autographs and other memorabilia. Full details of the film and its history can be found here.
Friday, 8th December, 1961 The Beatles once again appeared with American soul singer Davy Jones, this time at two separate venues and for two different promoters. At lunch time Jones appeared at The Cavern for owner Ray McFall and where he was backed by The Beatles (photo below) who also performed their own set. In [...]
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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.
