Saturday, 27th January, 1962 The Beatles played what would be their last engagement at long time venue The Aintree Institute in the Aintree area of Liverpool. Their new manager was so upset that promoter Brian Kelly paid the group’s 15 pound fee with handfuls of loose change. Brain Epstein vowed that they would never play for [...]
Monday, 1st January, 1961 At 11:00am The Beatles arrived at the studios of Decca Records in Broadhurst Gardens, London for the most important day of their career to date. The chance to audition for a major record label. While Brain Epstein had traveled down to London by train the previous day and stayed overnight with a family member [...]
The personal copy of Meet The Beatles owned by George’s sister Louise and signed to her by all four Beatles (above)Â recently sold at auction for $115,228.
Saturday, 16th December, 1961 While The Beatles performed an evening gig at The Cavern, ambitous promoter Sam Leach returned to Aldershot, the site of The Beatles disastorous Southern debut a week before. This edition of his ”North vs South –  Battle of the Bands” was well advertised and drew over 200 paying customers to see local band [...]
Thursday, 9th November, 1961 Perhaps one of the most significant days in Beatles history as their lunch time perfomance at The Cavern was witnessed by local record store owner Brian Epstein and his assistant Alistair Taylor. The four musicians were unaware the 27 year old businessman was in the club until his presence was announced [...]
Over the weekend writer Simon Hoggart wrote a piece in the UK’s Guardian newspaper about seeing the original Quarrymen play during a launch party for Beatle’s biographer Hunter Davies’s new memoirs, “Beatles, Football & Me.” Â Hoggart sums up the performance with “and very good they were too. In my view you can’t hear Freight [...]
The Arts section of the UK’s Guardian newspaper has recently published an intersesting profile of poet Royston Ellis and his influence on the early Beatles. Ellis is known to have visited Alan William’s Jacaranda Club in the late 1950s and may have perfomed some of his “beat poems” backed by the young Beatles. He is [...]
There’s only 7 days left till the start of the latest FEST FOR BEATLES FANS being held at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Chicago. This year’s Fest celebrates 30 Years of Chicago based Fests, the 40th Anniversary of Revolver plus appearences by Peter & Gordon and Pete Best and his band. Al full list of [...]
according to the icLiverpool website next month’s BEATLE WEEK celebrations in Liverpool is going back in time – in true tradition. The event, which attracts 300,000 visitors each year, is getting better all the time and there are some extra-special gigs this year. It will feature bands and artists from more than 45 countries entertaining [...]
This week’s  Sunday TIMES includes an excellent article profiling John Collins, the man behined the upcoming auction of Paul McCartney’s first guitar. The article talks about Collin’s own colorful background, how he came to be in teh rock ‘n’ roll memorabilla business and his feelings at being in possesion (albeit briefly) of items such as [...]
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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.
