Friday, 7th December, 1962 The Beatles play a lunch time gig at The Cavern before heading across the River Mersey to New Brighton to headline a seven group line up at the Tower Ballroom.

Thursday, 6th January, 1962 The Beatles played a gig at Club Django, more of a traditional jazz venue, at the Queen’s Hotel on the Promenade in Southport, the seaside resort town north of Liverpool.

This year’s Sundance Film Festival will include an animated short film featuring the voice of John Lennon. According to the Festival’s press release this year’s list of Animated Shorts includes I MET THE WALRUS by Canadian Director Josh Raskin. In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck [...]

Wednesday, 5th December, 1962 After their three day trip around the UK, The Beatles returned to Liverpool with lunch time and night time gigs at The Cavern.

Tuesday, 4th December, 1962 The Beatles make their London TV debut with an appearence on the regional children’s show, Tuesday Rendevous. The show is broadcast live from Associated-Rediffusion’s studio four at Wembley Studios on Wembley Park Drive in the London suburb of Wembley. The show airs at 5:00pm with The Beatles once again miming to [...]

I thought I’d seen or heard most Beatles covers by now – but I must admit this version of Day Tripper by Whitesnake was a new one to me…

Monday, 3rd December, 1962 The Beatles appeared on the TWW (Televison Wales & West) show “Discs A Gogo” filmed at the TWW Televison Center on Bath Road in Bristol in the South West of England. This was a live show broadcast to just the South West and Wales. It aired at 7:00pm with The Beatles [...]

Sunday, 2nd Decmeber, 1962 The Beatles appeared as part of the bill supporting singer Frank Ifield at the Embassy Cinema, on Broadway in the Northamptonshire town of Peterborough. The Fab Four were less than well recieved by the audience, and local newspaper reported Lyndon Whittaker was clearly not impressed. “The exciting Beatles” rock group quite [...]

An exhibition of never-before-seen photos taken by the rare shots, taken by American photographer David Spindel, of JOHN LENNON is set to open in London at the Proud Gallery on the 7th December. Remember Love: John Lennon is a series of black and white pictures depicting the former Beatle in a music studio recording his [...]

Saturday, 1st December, 1962 The Beatles played an evening gig at the Memorial Hall in Northwich, before racing back up to New Brighton to play at the Tower Ballroom where they’d been a last minute addition to the bill. The Fab Four had been added to the Tower Ballroom event just the day before in [...]