Wednesday, 23rd January, 1963 The Beatles suffer through a chilly and uncomfortable journey from Lonodn after the windsheild of their van is shattered. They arrive back in Liverpool just in time to perform their scheduled night time gig at The Cavern.
Just a few days after the Jonathan Ross chat show “incident” in the UK, Ringo Starr once more made headlines in relation to an Amrican TV appearence, this time it involved him walking off the set of ”Live With Regis and Kelly” rather than cut short one of his songs.  According to various online reports due [...]
Tuesday, 22nd January, 1963 The Beatles stayed in London for a ful day of recordings with the BBC radio at the Paris Studios on Regents Street, and the Playhouse Theater on Northumberland Avenue. First stop was a live lunchtime interview on the show Pop Inn, to promote the release of Please, Please Me. In the [...]
The What Goes On blog, reports that according to “sources with knowledge of the project,” The Toronto Sun has reported that an announcement that the Beatles are finally coming to iTunes will be made in a commercial in the Super Bowl on February 4, and that they could be available as early as sometime in [...]
Monday, 21st January, 1963 The Beatles returned to EMI House in London to record their third appearence for the Radio Luxembourg show The Friday Spectacular. The show was recorded in front of an audience of 100 teenagers as the Fab Four perfomed Please, Please Me and Ask Me Why. The show was scheduled to be broadcast [...]
A few days after appearing at the celebrations of Liverpool as the 2008 European Capital of Culture, it appears that Ringo Starr has upset a few people in his home town. According to the Liverpool Echo they recieved over 1,500 complaints over the weekend after Ringo’s appearence on the British Friday night chat show hosted [...]
Sunday, 20th January, 1963 The Beatles played a night time gig at The Cavern on Matthew St, in Liverpool city center.
Saturday, 19th January, 1963 The Beatles played a gig at the Town Hall Ballroom in Dodington near the town of Whitchurch in Shropshire. At around 6:15pm their recorded perfomance of Please, Please Me aired on that’s nights transmission ofABC TV’s Thank Your Lucky Stars, giving the Beatles their biggest TV audience to date.
Ringo Starr & Dave Stewart and band will perform a short set of Ringo’s songs LIVE at an exclusive event celebrating the release of Ringo’s new Capitol/EMI album, Liverpool 8! This event takes place 1pm PST next Friday, January 25 at Los Angeles’ House Of Blues on Sunset Blvd. along with a live webcast on Ringo’s [...]
Friday, 18th January, 1963 The Beatles returned to the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe for a gig at the Floral Hall Ballroom.
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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.
