Friday, 5th January, 1962 The Beatles played a lunch time gig at The Cavern. Today also saw the official UK release by Polydor of “My Bonnie“ by Tony Sheridan and “The Beat Boys” (Paul, George and John), the track that The Beatles had recorded in Hamburg, Germany in July the previous year. This would be [...]

Britain’s Sunday Mirror ran a story yesterday on the resurgance of interest and collectibility of the 7″ Vinyl Single. As part of the article it listed what it considers to be Britain’s 10 Most Valuable Singles with The Beatles making two appearences on the list. 1. THE QUARRYMEN: That’ll Be The Day/ In Spite Of [...]

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 [...]

The DVD Talk website gives a detailed and overall positive review to “Stuart Sutcliffe – The Lost Beatle” documentry which was released this week. The Lost Beatle is a well-crafted documentary that fans should enjoy. With an equal emphasis on Sutcliffe’s love for art, his fiancée and a certain rock band, it’s an interesting portrait [...]

Saturday, 1st July, 1961. The Beatles played the last set of their extended gig at the Top Ten Club at Reeperbhan #136, Hamburg, Germany bringing to and end a record setting thirteen week engagement during which they played an incredible 503 hours of music. The 1st July, 1961 was also the first effective day of a year-long [...]