According to an article on the Uncut website, Paul McCartney is to play London’s Roundhouse next month – as part of the line-up for BBC Electric Proms 2007. The Beatles legend will play the Camden venue on October 25. Festival Director Lorna Clarke says: “It is a real coup to have a true legend and [...]
Friday, 7th September, 1962 A strange and somewhat downmarket booking for the on-the-rise Beatles at the Newton Dancing School in the Village Hall on Thingwall Road in the village of Irby near Heswall on the Wirral peninsula across the River Mersey from Liverpool.
Liverpool’s long-mooted Beatles hotel will open next January to coincide with the city becoming European Capital of Culture, it was announced today. The £20m Hard Day’s Night Hotel is being built in a Grade II-listed building in the city, which dates back to 1884. It will have 110 bedrooms, including two penthouse suites with panoramic [...]
Thursday, 6th September, 1962 The Beatles played their rescheduled lunch time gig at The Cavern. In the evening they made their debut at the Rialto Ballroom on Upper Parliment Street in the Toxteh area of Liverpool as part of a Sam Leach promotion. The 6th Spetember issue of Mersey Beat included a essay entitled “On [...]
The BBC has announced that Sir Paul McCartney will DJ on BBC Radio 1 to mark the station’s 40th anniversary. Paul is among a list of 10 stars who will be hosting shows and playing the music which inspired them.The series, called Radio 1 Legends, starts on 17 September, with Sir Paul hosting the first show. Sir [...]
Wednesday, 5th September, 1962 Unsure that they would make it back from London in time, The Beatles scheduled lunch time perfomance at The Cavern was switched to Thursday. However they did make it back in time to play a night time engagement at the club.
Apple Corps Ltd have announced the eagerly anticipated DVD release of The Beatles’ second feature film ‘Help!’ on October 30th which will be marketed and distributed by EMI Music. The DVD will be a 2-disc set. Disc 1 will feature the original film digitally restored with a newly created 5.1 soundtrack, while Disc 2 contains [...]
Tuesday, 4th September, 1962 The Beatles flew from Liverpool airport to London on this morning, checking in to a small Chelsea hotel before heading to the EMI Studios on Abbey Road for a their first official recording session. The previous visit having been classed as an “audition.” The aim of this session was to try [...]
A few days ago I received a copy of “The Beatles! A One Night Stand in the Heartland†and was immediately impressed by the books production values. Flicking through it I was amazed to see page after page of Beatles related photographs that I had never seen before (not something that happens often these days). [...]
Monday, 3rd September, 1962 The Beatles played a lunch time gig at The Cavern before travelling the 12 miles to the town of Widnes for the first of three Monday evening gigs at the Queen’s Hall on Victoria Road. The shows were promoted by Brian Epstein through NEMS. Each week The Beatles would be joined [...]
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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.
