Wednesday, 15 January, 1964 Ringo flies to Paris from London and joins the rest of the group for a warm up show at the Cinema Cyrano in the Parisian suburb of Versailles. The video below contains some footage of The Beatles on the streets of Paris on this day.
Sunday, 5th January, 1964 Before the Beatles performed two more houses of The Beatles Christmas Show at the Astoria Cinema in Finsbury Park, George and Ringo taped a segment for the BBC radio show The Public Ear. The segment took the form of an audio letter encouraging listeners to listen to the American R&B artists [...]
Thursday, 3rd October, 1963 The Beatles start the day at the EMI Abbey Road Studios in London without George. During the morning Ringo ovedubs vocals for I Wanna Be Your Man. George arrives back from his visit to the US around lunch time and the group moves over to the NEMS Enterprises London offices on [...]
Monday, 16 September, 1963 After almost nine months of continuous touring, TV and radio appearances, as well as recording sessions, the Beatles took a much needed vacation. John flew to Paris with his wife Cynthia, where they were joined by Brian Epstein. George and his brother Peter flew to the USA to visit their sister [...]
Friday, 30 August, 1963 Filming for the BBC TV documentary continues in Liverpool. This time it picks up outside Ringo’s house at 10 Admiral Grove with Ringo battling his way past a crowd of adoring and screaming kids to George’s waiting open topped car. John and Paul were present but did not participate in this [...]
Wednesday, 19 June, 1963 The Beatles, at London’s Playhouse Theatre, record a radio appearance for the BBC program “Easy Beat,” taped before a screaming audience. The Beatles perform “Some Other Guy,” “A Taste of Honey,” “Thank You Girl,” and “From Me to You.” The show will be broadcast on June 23. This performance/recording session is [...]
On April 1st, Vivendi Universal will release “The Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder: John, Paul, Tom And Ringo,” a 2 disc DVD set featuring interviews with John (his last TV interview from April 1975), Paul (from 1979) and Ringo (from 1981). The press release gives the DVD details as follows: “The Tomorrow Show With Tom [...]
Ringo Starr‘s ex-girlfriend from the late 1970s period, Nancy Lee Andrews, recently gave an in-depth interview to the excellent Daytrippin’ website to help promote her new book of photographs, A Dose of Rock n Roll.
This weekend Ringo Starr will make an appearence on Little Steven’s Underground Garage radio show. Check out the fun promo here.
According to Yahoo! Music News, Ringo Starr was disgusted with the band’s musical prowess in the mid 1960s – because their screaming fans turned them into “bad musicians”.The Fab Four star is convinced they became victims of their own phenomenal success, as the deafening roar of the crowds during their gigs drowned out the sound [...]
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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.
