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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
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 [...]
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
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 [...]
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
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 [...]
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
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 [...]
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