05 February -1961 – The Beatles perform at Blair Hall, Walton, Liverpool.
This was The Beatles’ first performance at Blair Hall on Walton Road in Walton, Liverpool.
The show was booked by Peak Promotions, which ran jive events at four northern England venues: Blair Hall, Holyoake Hall in Wavertree, the David Lewis Club in Great George Place, and the Columba Hall in Widnes. The Beatles performed at each of the venues apart from Columba Hall.
05 February 1962 – The Beatles perform at the Cavern Club at lunchtime. That night they perform at the Kingsway Club in Southport. Drummer Pete Best is ill and unable to perform with The Beatles for these two shows, and John, Paul, and George are unanimous in wanting Ringo Starr to sit in as Best’s temporary replacement. Since Ringo’s group, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, has a day off, Ringo accepts and performs with The Beatles.
05 February 1963- Back on the Helen Shapiro tour, The Beatles perform at the Gaumont Cinema, Doncaster, Yorkshire.
05 February 1964 The Beatles fly from France’s Le Bourget airport to London Airport, and they are greeted by 100 excited schoolgirls (and in the middle of a schoolday, too!).
05 February 1967 The Beatles film the “Penny Lane” promotional video. They go to Stratford in the East End of London, where they are filmed riding white horses and walking around Angel Lane from about noon to 4:00 pm. The film director, on a separate date, goes to Liverpool to shoot location shots of the real Penny Lane, with some of that footage spliced in with the sequences featuring the Beatles, to give the illusion that The Beatles are walking along the real Penny Lane.
1968: Ringo Starr rehearses for Cilla Black’s television show
Starr’s appearance was for the second edition of Cilla, a variety show with a number of guests each week. On this occasion they were comedian Spike Milligan and ventriloquist Peter Brough.
Starr appeared during the opening credits and in a number of skits. In the first, he assisted Black in sorting through her fan mail and introduced one of her singing performances, I’m Playing Second Fiddle To A Football Team. A second sketch saw him interact with Peter Brough and performing with his own ‘dummy’, introduced as Ariadne but actually Black in a school uniform.
Starr and Black duetted unaccompanied on the 1905 song Nellie Dean while he drank from a pint of beer, and finally they sang and danced to a 1917 song entitled Do You Like Me?
1969: Mixing: I’ve Got A Feeling, Don’t Let Me Down, Get Back, One After 909, Dig A Pony
1970: Recording: Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing by Ringo Starr
1996: Press release for Real Love
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