Saturday, 17th November, 1962 The Beatles travel to Coventry for their first trip to the Midlands region of the UK. They played at the Matrix Hall on Fletchamstead Highway near the city center. Billed as “Direct from their German Tour” and “Hit Recorders of Love Me Do”, The Beatles were supported by The Mark Allen Group [...]
FOXNews.com reports that Yoko Ono recently sold John Lennon’s rare home recording of “Real Love” to JCPenney for a commercial. The spot began airing on Sunday night during ABC’s “Brothers & Sisters” before JCPenney could even make the announcement. The Beatles have had their songs licensed for commercials in the past, but with the rare [...]
Friday, 16th November, 1962 The Beatles make a return visit to EMI House in London for their second appearence on Radio Luxembourg. The session included an interview in front of a live audience for transmission on The Friday Spectacular show the following week.
According to a report in Billboard, Paul McCartney is predicting the Beatles’ catalog will make its long-awaited and long-desired arrival in the digital realm next year.McCartney tells Billboard.com that “it’s all happening soon. Most of us are all sort of ready. The whole thing is primed, ready to go — there’s just maybe one little [...]
Thursday, 15th November, 1962 While the Beatles were travelling back from Hamburg, a columnist in this week’s issue of Mersey Beat was posing the question of if The Beatles could become “national stars.”
I’m in the middle of a marathon viewing of Twin Peaks in preperation for writing a review of the new definitive DVD collection of this enigmatic TV show for the RevolutionSF website. This morning on one of the special feature documentries I heard a Paul McCartney story I had never heard before. Apparently during a studio [...]
Thursday, November 1st, 1962 to Wednesday, November 14th, 1962 The Beatles play a fourteen day engagement at the Star-Club in Hamburg. This was the first time they had played two consecutive engagements at the same hamburg club. By the end of this 14 day stretch they would have played for a total of 49 hours. [...]
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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.
