The BBC is reporting that ”a gold and silver-plated chess set, modelled on the hands of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, has gone on show in a Tokyo department store. The piece, commissioned by fellow band member George Harrison in 1973, was displayed at Takashimaya to mark the opening of a new Asprey store. The London jeweller [...]
According to a report on the Digital Spy website, Paul McCartney’s signature is now the most valuable among collectors of celebrity autographs. According to the report the former Beatle’s signature, worth £125 in 1997, has since taken an incredible 900 per cent price-hike and is now valued at £1,250. Fraser’s Autograph Gallery began tracking an [...]
The UK’s Royal Mail will be issuing a set of six stamps commemorating The Beatles on 9th January 2007. Â Â Images from Norvic Philatelics
The 1964 headless Ringo “Soaky” pictured above just sold on eBay for $25 !! I’m not sure what amused me more, the fact that it sold, or the seller describing it as being in “Very good Condition” despite the lack of head and worn away paint ! Thanks to Abbeyrd’s Beatle Page for the “heads up” on this [...]
icLiverpool has a report on the discovery of a suitcase that was left behind by George Harrison after a local gig in 1962 and has recently been recovered. According to the report on September 7, 1962 – a month before the world of music was to change forever – the Beatles played a youth club [...]
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Thursday 6th July 1961. Today saw the publication of the first issue of MERSEY BEAT, the local Liverpool music scene newspaper, created, written and edited by John Lennon’s friend, Bill Harry. The paper was to christen a whole new musical genre and to become synonymous with the early career of The Beatles. In fact on [...]
 The concert poster shown above is one of only three known surviving examples from the Beatles first US tour in 1964. The concert at the Philadelphia Convention Hall was the only one of the 25 stops on the debut tour to have a specific promotional poster. Apart from it’s historic importance the poster is striking [...]
A long-lost cinefilm of the Beatles that was uncovered in November last year has fetched just under $2,200 at auction. Amateur photographer David Poole, 67, had filmed the Fab Four as they arrived at London’s Heathrow Airport in the 1960s. Forty years later, he re-discovered the film, which was somewhat faded, and decided to sell it [...]
When the Ringo Starr All Star Band perfoms its upcoming gig in Palm Springs California it will be accompanied by a special exhibit of Beatles memorabillia from the Ashcraft collection. Palm Desert resident Ann Marie Ashcraft has been collecting Beatles memorabilia for more than 40 years. She and husband and fellow Beatles fan Richard Ashcraft, [...]
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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.
