Sunday, 18th March, 1962 Having been up all night at promoter Sam Leach’s engagement party The Beatles managed to make it over to the Casbah Coffee Club for their regular Sunday lunch time session.
Saturday, 17th March, 1962 The Beatles performed at the Village Hall in Knotty Ash as part of a “St. Patrick’s Night Rock Gala” alongside Rory Storm & The Hurricanes (featuring Ringo Starr on drums). The event had been organized by promoter Sam Leach who had taken over the responsibility of organizing “beat nights” at the [...]
Today sees the start of this year’s New York Fest For Beatles Fans. Among the top attractions at the weekend long celebration of all things Fab Four are: Special guests – the original Quarrymen. Terry Sylvester – former member of Cavern regulars, The Swinging Bluejeans and The Hollies. Beatles recording engineer – Norm “Hurricane” Smith [...]
Friday, 16th March, 1962 The Beatles completed another week of gigs at The Cavern with a night time performance.
Accroding to the This Is London website Michael Jackson has recently arrived in the UK capital provoking rumors that he is in town to meet with Sir Paul McCartney’s people to discuss selling his £200 million Beatles back catalogue.
Thursday, 15th March, 1962 The Beatles played a lunch time gig at The Cavern before moving around the corner to The New Storyville Jazz Club on Temple Street for a night time perfomance. The Storyville gig was somewhat prematurely billed as “The Beatle’s Farewell Party” in anticipation of the upcoming return to Hamburg. While the group [...]
The BBC News website is reporting that rare news footage and interviews with The Beatles have been made available to buy from download service Wippit. According to the report the archive includes video reports of Beatlemania sweeping the globe in 1964, Paul McCartney getting married and John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “bed-in” in 1969. Wippit’s [...]
Wednesday, 14th March, 1962 The Beatles played the second of four gigs this week at The Cavern with a night time performance.
Following the speculation earlier this week that Paul McCartney will be the launch artist for a new Starbucks record label, comes a report from FOX news that Paul is leaving Capitol Records with immediate effect and taking his entire back catalog of solo albums with him. Except for a short period in the 1980s when [...]
Tuesday, 13th March, 1962 The Beatles play a lunch time session at The Cavern on Matthew Street in Liverpool city center.
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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.
