Thursday, 15th February, 1962 The Beatles perform a lunch time show at The Cavern Club. In the evening they headed across the River mersey to perform before an audience of 3,500 at the Tower Ballroom in New Brighton. Sharing the bill with The Beatles on this occasion was Terry Lightfoot and his New Orleans Jazz [...]
Wednesday, 14th February, 1962 On this Valentine’s Day The Beatles played a night time gig at The Cavern.
We hear that Capitol Records is preparing a “Ringo Starr’s Greatest Hits” CD for release on June 5th, 2007. No word on track listings or packaging, so we don’t know yet if this is a reissue of a previous Greatest Hits collection or a new selection.
Tuesday, 13th January, 1962 While The Beatles played another lunch-time gig at The Cavern in Liverpool, Brian Epstein was in London having his first meeting with Parlaphone Records producer George Martin. Epstein played Martin the 78rpm acetate discs of the Decca audition that had been made at the Oxford Street HMV store the previous week. Martin did [...]
Several sites are poating a report from Fox News that “The Beatles songs — all of them — will be offered for downloading soon. That’s what Neil Aspinall, the head of Apple Corps Ltd. and the man who’s protected the Beatles legacy for the last 40 years — told me over the weekend,” Roger Friedman reports [...]
Monday, 12th February, 1962 The Beatles travelled to Broadcasting House in Piccadilly, Manchester to audition for the local BBC radio station. The audition came as a result of Brian Epstein’s application to the Variety Department on January 10th. The audition was to be held for Peter Pilbeam, producer of “teen” radio prgrammes for the North-West [...]
Monday, 12th February, 1962 The Beatles travelled to Broadcasting House in Piccadilly, Manchester to audition for the local BBC radio station. The audition came as a result of Brian Epstein’s application to the Variety Department on January 10th. The audition was to be held for Peter Pilbeam, producer of “teen” radio prgrammes for the North-West [...]
It’s often been quoted that Paul Goresh the fan who famously took photos of John Lennon as he left the Dakota building on that infamous day of December 8th, 1980 had taken one last photograph but the flash had failed to go off. Now, according to the fine folks at the Beatles Photo Blog that lost photograph has [...]
This week I thought we’d see how much the knowledgeable Blog Me Do readers can recall about some of the Fab Four’s TV appearances. Â This last week was the anniversary of one of The Beatles most significant TV appearances – which one? What was the Beatles first live TV Studio appearance? Which Shakespeare play [...]
Sunday, 11th February, 1962 The Beatles were back on familiar turf with their regular Sunday gig at Mona Best’s Casbah Coffee House in the West Derby area of Liverpool.
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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.
