OCTOBER 1, 2015 – An original film of The Beatles performing at The Cavern Club in Liverpool in 1962 was found after 50 years languishing in a desk drawer. It featured the Fab Four playing “Some Other Guy” on August 22, 1962, four weeks before their debut single came out. It was recorded for what was…
1960 – In Hamburg, the Beatles, with Stu Sutcliffe, recorded versions of “Fever,” “Summertime,” and “September Song. 1962Performance at the Cavern, with the Dominoes and The Saints Jazz Band.1963US single release: ‘Bad To Me’, with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.[According to my sources, this record got on the Billboard chart. So I doubt this happened…
SEPTEMBER 4, 1968 – Thirteen years before the birth of MTV, The Beatles recorded promotional videos for “Hey Jude” and “Revolution” at Twickenham Film Studios. They arrived at the studios at 1:30 PM and worked until evening. The set, at the studio’s “stage one” had been assembled over the previous three days. The vocals for…
SEPTEMBER 13, 1965 – The Beatles released the Paul McCartney ballad “Yesterday” (credited to Lennon & McCartney on the group’s 1965 “Help!” album). According to biographers of McCartney and the Beatles, McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then girlfriend Jane Asher…
1966 : ‘Rubber Soul’, 26th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). 1967 – The Beatles album “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released in the U.K. and around the world. 1969 – In Montreal, John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded “Give Peace a Chance” with Tommy and Dick Smothers, Derek Taylor, Murray…
1963 : Please Please Me’ LP, 8th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). Concert at the Royalty, Chester. 1964 : Gerry and the Pacemakers (Films) Limited, film production company, is incorporated, with Epstein one of its opening directors 1965 – The Beatles single “Yes It Is” hit #46 in the U.S. 1967 –…
APRIL 11, 1991 – Ringo Starr guest starred as himself on Fox-TV’s “The Simpsons”. In the plot of the episode titled “Brush With Greatness”, Bart stumbles upon several old paintings of Ringo Starr that Marge made as a student in high school, when she had a crush on Starr. Marge tells Lisa that she was…
The Beatles who have strummed, sung and shaken their distinctive hair-cuts, to game in the world of ‘pop’ during the last year, pictured this morning at London Airport before flying out for series of engagements in Sweden
They gathered almost instantly, a tribute to the immediacy of modern mass communications. Outside the squat red brick hospital on Manhattan’s West Side late Monday night, the crowd was partly serious. But there was more to it than that. “He can’t go; he meant so much to everyone” said a grieving fan, a girls too…
Wearing dark glasses and an Edwardian Jacked but still recognisable ex-Beatles Ringo Starr left London’s Heartrow Airtport to fly to New York Monday Accompanying him was his wife Maureen, who appeared to supporting the opposition by wearing a T-Rex tee-shirt. Ringo has been busy starring Merlin the Wizard in the film “Count Downe” which he…