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BEATLES – Day By Day – 3/22/62

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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BEATLES – Day By Day – 1/4/62

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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BEATLES – Day By Day – 10/28/61

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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BEATLES – Day By Day – 10/5/61

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Thursday, 5th October, 1961 In the October 5th-19th issue of Mersey Beat local DJ Bob Wooler rated The Beatles as the “number one most popular rock group” in Liverpool. Howver the accolade did come with the caveat that he couldn’t compare The Beatles to The Bluegenes who Wooler considered ”beyond comparison.”


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BEATLES – Day By Day – 9/14/61

Friday, September 15th, 2006

Thursday, 14th September, 1961 The Beatles perform at the Town Hall in Litherland. The gig is also announced in today’s issue of Mersey Beat which proclaims that The Beatles will perfom at the venue “every Thursday.” This week’s issue of Mersey Beat (cover dated September 14-28) also includes a column entitled “Around and About” written [...]


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BEATLES – Day By Day – 8/17/61

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Thursday 17th August, 1961 The first Beatles fan letters appeared in today’s issue of Mersey Beat which also included a poem by John Lennon entitled “I Remember Arnold.” The boys themselves played an evening gig at the St. John’s Hall in Tuebrook, also on the bill were the Big Three. For this night only The [...]


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BEATLES – Day By Day – 8/3/61

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Thursday, 3rd August, 1961 The Beatles played this evening at the St. John’s Hall in the Tuebrook area of Liverpool. The same day the third issue of Mersey Beat hit the local newsstands and contained the first of a series of record review columns by local record store owner, Brian Epstein.


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BEATLES Day By Day – 7/20/61

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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BEATLES – Day By Day – 7/6/61

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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