February 09, 1961. The Beatles performed live for the first time at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where they played a total of 292 concerts. They were neither long-haired, nor famous, nor were they bet on from the beginning, and there were not even four but five of them. Because in those Beatles that debuted…
Showing their support for the US civil rights movement, the Beatles refused to perform to a segregated concert at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida. As the pressure of The Beatles’ act of defiance threatened to boil over, officials at the concert eventually allowed the segregated audience to merge together. “We never play to segregated…
On January 1st in 1991, George Harrison invited his former wife, Pattie Boyd, to his Friar Park mansion for a friendly, New Year’s Day visit. Harrison first met Pattie Boyd on the set of the Beatles’ movie, “A Hard Day’s Night,” in 1964. Instantly captivated by her beauty, George pursued Pattie, and their romance blossomed…
At the end of The Beatles’ history, the band’s songs were practically every man for himself, although in general, they were recorded by the four members together.However, there is one song from the group that was recorded only by John Lennon and Paul McCartney together. This song was the last great collaboration between the quartet’s…
I was at my parents house on New Years’ day and we dug out the old family photo albums, as you do, and came across these snaps of some lads my aunt met on holiday in Newquay, Cornwall in 1967… It’s become folklore in our family that my aunt Frances, on Paul’s left arm, and…
Mark Lewisohn (author of The Complete Chronicle of the Beatles): “EMI Studios, Bombay, India. Producer: George Harrison; Engineers: J.P. Sen and S.N. Gupta. Worked on the soundtrack for the film “Wonderwall”.Rita Tushingham (actress): “I left Liverpool just before the Beatles. They were still playing at the Cavern. I knew them because we all went to…
A year earlier at this time, the quiet Beatle had traveled to India, specifically to Bombay, to work on the soundtrack of the film Wonderwall. In 1969, about to start recording Get back, and after enduring the quarrels between Lennon and McCartney, Harrison announced to his bandmates his intention to leave the band. And with…
On January 10, 1969, George Harrison left the “Get Back” sessions at Twickenham Studios. In addition, it had recently become apparent to Apple’s management team, and therefore to the Beatles, that the company was losing money and that the situation was becoming untenable.This Sunday, the four Beatles met at Ringo Starr’s home in Weybridge to…
He is a full and generous person and I cannot think of anyone I admire or like better.’ – Brian Epstein ‘Lennon’s very image, his caustic wit, his attitude and his mentality is what attracted Brian. I know he found him attractive. It was more than a sexual attraction. It was a sort of love…
These January 1963 photos, taken by Les Chadwick, help illustrate just how cramped conditions were when The Beatles performed in The Cavern. Sitting with arms folded next to George in the top image was his girlfriend Bernadette Farrell. “It was no big, raging love affair, but George was my boyfriend,” she’d tell the Liverpool Echo…