1961 – The Beatles perform at the Cassanova Club, Liverpool, and at Litherland Town Hall, Liverpool. Advertisements for the Cassanova Club appearance credited The Beatles as the originators of a foot-stomping dance called “The Atom Beat”. At Litherland Town Hall, while The Beatles are presenting a Valentine’s Day show, Paul McCartney sings Elvis Presley’s “Wooden Heart”, and he is wearing an honest-to-god wooden heart pinned to his coat, covered with satin and embroidered with the names “John”, “Paul”, “George”, and “Pete”. The heart is raffled off, and the winner is also to get a kiss from Paul. When the winning girl goes on stage to get her prize and kiss, dozens of other girls follow her, squealing in an early display of “Beatlemania”. John is knocked to the floor and the club’s bouncers close the curtain and sto
p the show until order has been restored.
1962 – The Beatles perform at the Cavern Club – a night show
1963 – The Beatles perform at the Locarno Ballroom, Liverpool. This is a St. Valentine’s Day dance
1964 – The Beatles rehearse for their second live appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show”.
1967 – The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio Two, EMI Studios, London). Recording overdubs for “Only a Northern Song”, including two George Harrison lead vocals.
1972 – Release in Sweden of Beatles single “All Together Now/Hey Bulldog” (Apple). Two weeks in the Swedish charts; highest position #7
1986 – UK release of a one-hour videocassette called “British Rock: the First Wave“. It includes footage of The Beatles in Manchester in November 1963; in Sweden in October 1963; at the 1964 and 1965 ‘New Musical Express’ Poll Winners Concerts; in Washington D.C. in 1964; John’s “apology” on Aug. 11, 1966; and the premiere of the movie “Yellow Submarine
2015: Paul McCartney live at Irving Plaza, New York
2015: Ringo Starr live at UT Tyler Cowan Center, Tyler, TX, USA
