According to the Rock Radio website, Ringo Starr’s upcoming studio album, titled Liverpool 8, will be released in June. Longtime producer and collaborator Mark Hudson says that the album, which he co-produced with Starr and Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, features a new “synthetic” direction for Starr, and steers him away from the Beatle-esque direction of [...]
Friday, 23rd March, 1962 The Beatles played two gigs at The Cavern at lunch time and night time. For the night time session they were joined on the bill by Gerry & The Pacemakers.
It has been (or “bean”) confirmed that, as we reported last week, Paul McCartney is the first artist signed to the new Starbucks backed record label “Hear Music.” According to the Associated Press The former Beatle made an appearance via a video feed from London at the company’s annual meeting. The world’s largest specialty coffee retailer [...]
Thursday, 22nd March, 1962 The Beatles played a night time engagement at The Cavern. The latest issue of Mersey Beat published on this date included several Beatles related items: A two line advertisment (presumably from Brian Epstein) offering The Beatles services as performers giving their business address as “12/14 Whitechapel” and the phone number as “Royal [...]
Paul singing “In Liverpool” from his Liverpool Oratorio. I believe this segment was filmed at the Liverpool Insitute where he and George went to shool. Many of these shots bought back a flood of memories of my own childhood in and around the Manchester & Liverpool area. Wonderful stuff.
Wednesday, 21st March, 1962 The Beatles played a lunch time gig at The Cavern on the second of four straight days at the club.
Despite reports last week it appears that Michael Jackson is in no rush to sell off his rights to the Beatles song catalog. According to a report filed by ExtraTV.com, Jackson spokesperson, Raymone K. Bain, said “There is no truth to the rumor that Michael Jackson will be selling his Beatles catalogue… period… not back [...]
Tuesday, 20th March, 1962 The Beatles played the first of five gigs at The Cavern this week, kicking off with a night time perfomance.
Monday, 19th March, 1962 The Beatles played a second unadvertised gig at the Kingsway Club in the northern Liverpool seaside resort town of Southport.
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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.
