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4 January 1963 – The Beatles Town Hall in Dingwall

January 4, 2016 news 1 Comment 796 Views

“This was the evening, famous in local circles, on which the Beatles appeared at the Town Hall Dingwall, supported by the Drumbeats. Much reference has been made to the fact that the dance was poorly attended with an estimate of anywhere between 8 and about 30 people attending. Lore has it that the Beatles packed up early and went off to the Pavilion. Margaret Paterson who attended the dance says that there was a total of 19 people altogether and that the dance finished at about 11 o’clock. The Melotones were indeed playing that night at the Pavilion.

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Organisers of an attempt to reunite 19 people who watched The Beatles play in a town hall in 1963 have had claims from 24 people who say they were there.

Billy Shanks is helping to lead the search for the audience members of the 1963 gig in Dingwall, Ross-shire.

He said some who turned up thought the music was rubbish and left to join an audience of 1,200 watching a local band in nearby Strathpeffer.

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