Monday, 4 November, 1963 The Beatles took a day off from their UK tour to tape the Royal Variety Show at the Prince of Wales Theater in London. The show was traditionally the biggest entertainment event in the UK at the time, with the top popular acts from stage, TV, and music performing before members [...]
Wednesday, 30 October, 1963 The Beatles return to Stockholm to tape an appearance on the Swedish television pop show Drop In. The show was recorded at the Narren-teatern, a small theater in the Grona Lund amusement park. Originally scheduled to play two songs, She Loves You and Twist & Shout, The Beatles had such a [...]
My good friends, the excellent Beatles cover group Daytripper, in action at the Oasis Starlight Lounge just outside Austin, TX a few weeks ago.
Thursday, 24 October, 1963 The first day of The Beatles’ Swedish tour is spent at Karlaplansstudion radio station studios in Karlaplan, Stockholm, where they record a performance for a radio program entitled “The Beatles popgrupp fran Liverpool pa besok i Stockholm,” literally translated as “The Beatles pop group from Liverpool visiting Stockholm.” The Beatles taped [...]
Friday, 4th October, 1963 The Beatles make their debut on the UK’s top rated TV pop program, Ready, Steady, Go! The show was transmitted live between 6:15pm and 7:00pm from the Associated-Rediffusion studios at Televsion House in London. Even though the show was live the groups mimed while surrounded by dancing teenagers. The Beatles performed [...]
In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan managed to snag a brief interview with John Lennon in his hotel room in Toronto. Using his reel-to-reel tape recorder, Levitan asked Lennon a series of questions about peace, popularity, and messages in music. In 2007, Levitan collaborated with director Josh Raskin, illustrator James Braithwaite, and animator Alex Kurina to [...]
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.
On Friday evening, as part of his promotional activities for his new album, Â Liverpool 8, Ringo Starr appeared at the House of Blues in West Hollywood. As well as perfoming he also did an on-stage interview, which you can watch here. Â
At last the truth behind the breakup is revealed..Â
Ringo performs his nostalgic new single, and album title track, Liverpool 8 in Liverpool as part of the city’s “2008 European Capital of Culture” celebrations.
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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.
