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.
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.
