Thursday, 21st December, 1961 The Beatles played their third lunch time session of the week at The Cavern

Accroding to a note from TheBeatles.com mailing list On the 27th December 2006 AT 10.30pm, othe BBC are broadcasting “IMAGINE…The Beatles In LOVE”, an in-depth look at the creation of LOVE – the music and the show. The programme is a Christmas special within the series “IMAGINE…” and is presented by Alan Yentob. It takes [...]

Wednesday, 20th December, 1961 The Beatles continued their week at The Cavern with a night time gig.

PRESS RELEASE: After 25 Years, FBI Releases Last Ten Documents in John Lennon FBI File LOS ANGELES – The FBI late Tuesday made public 10 documents from their files on John Lennon that have been withheld for 25 years under the claim that releasing them could cause “military retaliation against the United States.” The files, [...]

Tuesday, 19th December, 1961 The Beatles played their second lunch-time gig of the week at The Cavern.

According to a report on the RockRadio website, Paul McCartney has expressed regret that he, George and Ringo never finished working on the  unreleased John Lennon song, titled “Now And Then,” for the Beatles Anthology project. He explainined, “There was one more (song) that we didn’t do which was a pity. It didn’t have a very [...]

Monday, 18th December, 1961 The Beatles started another week of gigs at The Cavern, which with one exception, would be the only venue that they played for what remained of 1961. Meanwhile Brian Epstein receives a response from Ron White at EMI rejecting his request that the company give “My Boonie” a UK release.

The on-line campaign to get Ringo a knighthood is continuing to grow as more newspapers back the call and promote the on-line petition at the British government web-site. As of today there are 763 signatures on the petition which can be signed by any British resident or British Citizen. The deadline for signatures is Februray [...]

Sunday, 17th December, 1961 The Beatles played one of their regular Sunday lunch time sessions at The Casbah Coffee Club in the cellar of the Best family home in the West Derby area of Liverpool.

Saturday, 16th December, 1961 While The Beatles performed an evening gig at The Cavern, ambitous promoter  Sam Leach returned to Aldershot, the site of The Beatles disastorous Southern debut a week before. This edition of his ”North vs South –  Battle of the Bands” was well advertised and drew over 200 paying customers to see local band [...]