BEATLES – Day By Day – 4/18/63
Thursday, 18 April, 1963
The Beatles perform at London’s Royal Albert Hall for the first time. for a live BBC radio broadcast of “Swinging Sound ’63.” The show is divided into two halves, with The Beatles appearing in both halves, but only the second half is broadcast. In the first half, The Beatles perform “Please Please Me” and “Misery.” In the second half, they play “Twist and Shout” and “From Me to You,” taking the producers by surprise, they had rehearsed “Thank You Girl” instead of “Twist and Shout,” but substituted the song unannounced. At the end of the show, The Beatles join the other artists in performing a grand finale version of “Mack the Knife.”
After the show, Paul McCartney meets, for the first time, actress and “teen personality” Jane Asher.
