The Starpulse News Blog reports that Yoko Ono has donated the publishing royalties to the entire John Lennon back catalogue in an effort to make sure a new all-star tribute to her husband is a true charity event. R.E.M, Christina Aguilera and Green Day are among the acts who have recorded Lennon classics for new [...]
Monday, 12th March, 1962 The Beatles returned to the Kingsway Club in Southport for a gig that, for some strange reason, was never advertised in the local press.
“The Liverpool Lennons” an official Lennon family website celebrating the lives of John Lennon, Julian Lennon and Cynthia Powell Lennon is now operating at lennon.net The well designed site includes biographies, timelines, discographies a family tree and lots more for any Lennon fan.
Sunday, 11th March, 1962 The Beatles played their regular Sunday date at The Casbah Coffee Club in West Derby.
According to a report in today’s New York Post the Starbucks Coffee chain is considering expanding its music operations beyond offering compilation albums through its stores, like the recent John Lennon release, and establishing a record label to release original material. According to the report the company is targetting Paul McCartney to be its launch [...]
Saturday, 10th March, 1962 The Beatles retuned to the St Paul’s Presbyterian Church Youth Club in the Church Hall on North Road in Tranmere, Birkenhead. The flyer announcing theor return billed them as “Polydor Recording Artists“. Also appearing on the bill were “The Country Four with Brian Newman.” Ticket price for the evening was five shillings with the [...]
Did you ever wonder what would have been on the next Beatles album if John, Paul, George and Ringo had stayed together a little longer? The excellent New York based tribute band “The Fab Faux” will try to answer that question on Tuesday and Wednesday next week with a performance at the city’s Webster Hall that [...]
Friday, 9th March, 1962 The Beatles play two gigs at The Cavern today with both lunch time and night time appearences at the venue.
 According to this lengthy report on FOX News regarding Michael Jackson’s financial woes and the current wheeling and dealing surrounding various ways for him to pay off his debts, it looks like the one-time “King Of Pop” (seen above with Paul McCartney in better days) will lose his hold on the Beatles catalog on May 31, 2008.Â
Thursday 8th March, 1962 The Beatles played a return gig at the Storyville Jazz Club on Temple Street in Liverpool. Earlier in the evening they made their radio debut when the previous day’s recording session for Teenager’s Turn at the Playhouse Theater in Manchester was broadcast between 5:00pm and 5:29pm on the BBC Light Programme.
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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.
