Beatles Week
The 2006 International Beatle Week festivities kick off in Liverpool today and runs through August 29th. According to the official website there will be live entertainment “every waking hour” with over 200 bands participating. There will also be a convention, tours, auctions, art galleries and a whole lot more.
The emphasis this year is on those contemporaries of the Beatles that helped shape and mould their music. And that means a gig at the Empire Theatre on Saturday, August 26 by The Quarrymen, including four of the original members of John Lennon’s school band, Donovan, who travelled with the Beatles to India to meet the Maharishi and helped to write Yellow Sub-marine, and Tony Sheridan, who the Beatles backed and recorded with in Hamburg.
Full details and schedules can be found at the official website HERE.
