Wednesday, 21st February, 1962 The Beatles were back in Liverpool city center playing both lunch time and night time gigs at The Cavern. 

Tuesday, 20th February, 1962 The Beatles play an evening gig at The Floral Hall in the local resort town of Southport. The event was advertised as a “Rock ‘n’ Trad Spectacular, ” also on the bill were Gerry & the Pacemakers and Rory Storm & the Hurricanes, with the “trad” (jazz) music provided by the [...]

According to a report on the UK website Entertainment Wise, EMI and Apple Corp are suing a company called Crystal Systems claiming that in January 2001 a cleaner reportedly threw threw a box into the trash that contained several iconic photos of The Beatles taken in 1963. Among the images lost is the original of [...]

Monday, 19th February, 1962 The Beatles played another in their long running string of regular lunch time engagements at The Cavern 

With rumors surfacing about a possible new Greatest Hits CD from Ringo later this year, I thought it might be fun to take a look at Mr. Starkey’s solo career. What was the significance of the building shown on the cover of Ringo’s first solo album? Which Ringo album was the first recording to feature [...]

Today over at our companion site, The Speed Blog, we’ll be covering the Daytona 500 stock car race, so I thought it would be fun to post a car related Beatles vdeo. Here’s a fun piece that links “Drive My Car” with “The Motorist“, a silent movie from 1906.

Sunday, 18th February, 1962 The Beatles played another of their regular Sunday lunch time gigs at the Casbah Coffee Club in the cellar of the Best’s family home in the West Derby area of Liverpool.

Saturday, 17th February, 1962 The Beatles played a night time gig at The Cavern.

BBC America will be airing the documentary “Beatles Biggest Secrets” on March 3rd at 10:00pm (ET/PT) as part of their Backstage Pass programming block.  Here’s how the BBC Amercia website describes the show. There was a time when the Beatles were the biggest, most famous band in the world, and much to the pleasure of parents [...]

Friday, 16th February, 1962 The Beatles once more cross the River Mersey for return performances Technical College Hall in Birkenhead and then on to the Tower Ballroom in New Brighton.