Archive for the 'Mersey Beat' Category
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Thursday, 22nd March, 1962 The Beatles played a night time engagement at The Cavern. The latest issue of Mersey Beat published on this date included several Beatles related items: A two line advertisment (presumably from Brian Epstein) offering The Beatles services as performers giving their business address as “12/14 Whitechapel” and the phone number as “Royal [...]
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Friday, January 5th, 2007
Thursday, 4th January, 1962  Issue #13 of Mersey Beat  arrived in stores around Liverpool today, proclaiming The Beatles as Liverpool’s top beat group in their first “popularity poll,” ahead of Gerry & the Pacemakers, The Remo Four, Rory Storm & the Hurricanes (with Ringo), and Johnny Sandon & the Searchers. The front page of the paper [...]
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Saturday, October 28th, 2006
Saturday, 28th October, 1961 The Beatles played an evening gig at the Aintree Institute today. However the most significant event of the day for The Beatles may have happened earlier and without their involvement. For, according to Brian Epstein’s autobiography, it was on this day that a teenager named Raymond Jones walked into Epstein’s NEMS [...]
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
Thursday, 20th July, 1961 The Beatles played an evening concert at the St John’s Hall in Tubrook, Liverpool. The Beatles also made repeated apperances in the Classified Ads section of today’s Liverpool Echo with ads promoting their upcoming appearances at the Aintree Institute (2 seperate ads), Hoylake Hall, The Cavern and Blair Hall. The first [...]
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Friday, July 7th, 2006
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 [...]
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