NME reports that an independent record label based in Miami claims it has unheard live recordings of The Beatles from the band’s 1962 gig at Hamburg‘s Star Club, which it is planning to release. The recordings are claimed to be the first made after Ringo Starr joined the band as drummer. Fuego Entertainment has entered [...]
Thursday, 17th January, 1963 The Beatles played a lunch time gig at The Cavern before heading across the Mersey for a sold out evening gig at the Majestic Ballroom in Birkenhead.
Hamburg-born Astrid Kirchherr met the Beatles in 1960, before they were famous, when they came to perform in Germany. An art student in Hamburg, she took some of the earliest photographs of the group — now-classic shots that capture the foursome back before Ringo joined the band, back when Stuart Sutcliffe was playing bass. And [...]
Wednesday, 16th January, 1963 The Beatles spent the day in Manchester splitting their time between Granada TV and the BBC. At the Granada TV Studios they appeared on the local evening program People & Places. Although the show was live, they mimed to palybacks of Ask Me Why and Please, Please Me. Later in the [...]
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Monday, 14th January, 1963 The Beatles played their only gig in Ellesmere Port, just 19 miles south of Liverpool. A crowd of 700 saw the Fab Four at the Civic Hall on Whitby Road.
Sunday, 13th January, 1963 The Beatles travelled north from Kent to the ABC Televison studios on Aston Road in the Aston district of Birmingham. They were there to tape an appearence on Thank Your Lucky Stars, at the time Britain’s most popular TV pop programme. The Fab Four were bottom of the seven-act bill and [...]
Saturday, 12th January, 1963 Despite the bad weather that had caused the previous night’s cancellation, The Beatles manage to travel another 170 miles south for a gig at the Invicta Ballroom on the High Street in Chatham, Kent.
Friday, 11th January, 1963 The Beatles played their first gig of the year at The Cavern at lunch time before heading the 113 miles south through a blizzard to perform an evening show at the Plaza Ballroom on Halesowen Road in the Old Hall region of Dudley. They were due to follow the Old Hill perfomance [...]
The Liverpool Echo reports that a rare photograph of Ringo Starr appearing with former bandmates has emerged after 46 years. Drummer Ringo, in a bubble-gum pink suit is pictured alongside Rory Storm (Alan Caldwell) and the other members of his group, the Hurricanes, then the most popular in the city, Johnny Guitar (Johnny Byrne), Lou [...]
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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.
