Thursday, 16 May, 1963 At the Television Theatre, in Shepherd’s Bush, London, The Beatles appear live on the national BBC TV program “Pops and Lenny,” broadcast in front of an enthusiastic live audience. This is a children’s program that features pop music and a hand-puppet known as ‘Lenny the Lion.’ The Beatles perform “From Me [...]
Sunday, 12 May, 1963 At Alpha Television Studios in Birmingham, The Beatles tape an appearance for the ABC Television program “Thank Your Lucky Stars.” They lip-sync the songs “From Me to You” and “I Saw Her Standing There.” The show will be broadcast on May 18.
Tuesday, 16 April, 1963 The Beatles appear live on the Granada TV program “Scene at 6:30.” They lip-sync to their single “From Me to You.“ For the first time The Beatles were appearing on more than one TV channel at the same atime as the live Granada broadcast clashed with the showing of the Beatles [...]
Sunday, 14 April, 1963 The Beatles tape an appearance on the ABC television program “Thank Your Lucky Stars,” their third appearance on that show. They do a lip-sync performance of “From Me to You.” The program is broadcast on April 20. After the recording session, The Beatles travel to Richmond-upon-Thames for their first encounter with [...]
Saturday, 13 April, 1963 The Beatles record their first television appearance on the national BBC network, on the TV program “The 625 Show.” Recording for the program is in Studio E of Lime Grove Studios, Lime Grove in Shepherd’s Bush, London. They perform three songs: “From Me to You,” “Thank You Girl,” and “Please Please [...]
Tuesday, 9 April, 1963 The Beatles are interviewed on the live radio program, the BBC show “Pop Inn.” Their about-to-be-released single “From Me to You” is played during the interview. The program is broadcast live from the BBC Paris Studio in London. From there The Beatles travel to Wembley Studios for a live television appearance. [...]
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 [...]
So own up, who else watched last nights’ edition of American Idol with a mix of fear and curiosity? Idol hopeful’s being let lose on the Lennon & McCartney songbook – a few years ago the very thought of it would have made me shudder. But this year it seemed that the Idol Top 12 [...]
I’m in the early stages of a new book about a certain dashing British hero who is parodied in this sequence from the Beatles cartoon series. This clip came up during one of my research sessions, it wouldn’t work in the book - but it’s perfect for here.
Saturday, 2nd March, 1963 As part of the continuing Helen Shapiro tour, The Beatles play at the City Hall on Braker’s Pool in Sheffield. After the show they drive 38 miles to Manchester to appear live on the ABC TVÂ news program ABC At Large aired in the north and midlands of the UK at 11:00pm. [...]
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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.
