Room 53, EMI Studios, London
Stereo mixes, ending with a tape compilation, of the January 30th rooftop recordings: "I've Got A Feeling", (two versions) "Don't Let Me Down, "Get Back" (two versions) "The One After 909" and "Dig A Pony".
Source: Mark Lewisohn/The Complete Beatles Chronicle
Studio Four, Granada TV Center, Manchester
The Beatles 3rd appearance on the Granada television program, "People & Places", transmitted live this time between 6:35 and 7:00 pm.
They peformed 2 numbers, "Love Me Do" and "Twist and Shout", as rehearsed from 3:00 to 4:00 pm and again from 4:15 to 6:0...
Night: Cavern Club, Liverpool
...Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead
Two entirely separate engagements in one night. During the evening, the Beatles performed a standard Majestic booking. Then, at midnight, the first ever Mersey Beat poll awards show (for 1962) began. As winners of the poll, the Beatles closed the show at 4:00 pm and we...
Music Hall, The Square, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
A major booking with promoter Lewis Buckley. Most top acts of the day played here.
...Another southern engagement, arranged following the withdrawal of Joe Brown, originally advertised to appear.
LOVE ME DO, PARLOPHONE RECORDING
THE BEATLES ALSO ROBIN HALL AND JIMMIE MACGREGOR WITH SUPPORTING GROUP
CORN EXCANGE, BEDFORD
December 13, 8:00 to 11:30 pm Admission 3
...Lunchtime: Cavern Club, Liverpool
Night: Cavern, Club, Liverpool
...La Scala Ballroom, Runcorn
The Beatles' second Runcorn date, although - unlike the first - this was a NEMS presentation.
...Lunchtime: Cavern Club, Liverpool
...George Martin and his assistant, Judy Lockhart-Smith attended the performance, a year less four days after Decca's Mike Smith had done the same.
...Oasis Club, Manchester
...Lunchtime:Cavern Club, Liverpool
Nighttime: Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey
The Beatles headed a seven-group line-up at the Tower.
...Club Django, Queen's Hotel, Promenade, Southport, Lancashire
As the name implies, Club Django was a jazz venue, but its management was too aware of the Beatles' escalating prominence to pass up an opportunity of booking the group.
...Lunchtime: Cavern Club, Liverpool
Nighttime: Cavern Club, Liverpool
...Studio Four, Wembley Studios, Wembley Park Drive, Wembley, Middlesex
The Beatles made their London-area television debut with this spot on the children's program Tuesday Rendezvous, transmitted by the the capital's weekday ITV Station, Associated-Rediffusion.
It was a live appearance, broadcast fr...
TWW Television Centre, Bath Rd, Bristol, Somerset
Another ITV appearance, produced by TWW (Television Wales and the West) and seen only in that and other nearby regions.
The program was a weekly pop music show with the very 1960's (and aptly Welsh sounding) title Discs A Gogo, supposedly set - usi...
Embassy Cinema, Broadway, Peterborough, Northants
This fine piece of Eptstein opportunitism backfired disastrously when the Beatles bombed on this Frank Ifield package bill, and in both the "houses" too. The experience may have been good, but damage to the group's collective ego was extensive. Abou...
(Victory) Memorial Hall, Northwich
and Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey
The Beatles were added to the New Brighton bill a day before the show in order to boost flagging ticket sales. It meant a hurried journey up from Northwich and a very late-night spot on stage.
...Cavern Club, Liverpool (lunch time)
Town Hall, Market St. Earlestown (night)
Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire
The Earlestown engagement, billed as "The Big Beat Show No. 2" was presented by T&T Vicars Sports and Social Club (Football Section)
Mono mixes of "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why" for ...
Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead
...Night Cavern Club, Liverpool - and 527 Club, Lewis's, Ranelagh Street, Liverpool
Two engagements in one night, the second of which was a "Young Idea Dance", for the staff of Lewis's, the premier department store in Liverpool, held on the top floor of the shop.
...BBC Paris Studio, Regent Street, London
The Beatles' first radio session in London. It took place at the Corporation's confusingly named "Paris Studio" - situated not in France, but just south of Piccadilly Circus in the heart of the West End.
The recording was for the Light Programme Show, "The T...
Studio Two, EMI Studios, London
With the modest success of "Love Me Do", the Beatles were invited to return to EMI to record a second single. "Please Please Me", first aired in the studio on September 11th, was completed during this session, booked for 7:00-10:00 pm, but was finished 15 minutes ahe...
Night Cavern club, Liverpool
...Royal Lido Ballroom, Central Beach
Prestatyn, Flintshire
Only the Beatles' second engagement in Wales, following the debut in nearby Rhyl four months earlier.
...The Lunchtime slot at the Cavern Club this day was played by the Remo Four because the Beatles were in London for an audition with BBC Television, arranged so that their TV potential could be assessed.
Surprisingly, the audition came about not through the endeavours of Brian Epstein, but through two persuasive letters sent to the Corporation by one of the the Beatles' fans, David John Smith of Preston, who wrote asking for the group to be featured on BBC programmes. Assuming that Smith managed the group, the BBC wrote back to him offering them an audition in London on November 6th. Smith passed on the letter to NEMS Enterprises, from where Clive Epstein (brother Brian was with the Beatles in Hamburg) re-arranged this November 23rd date.
The 10 minute audition took place at 12:20 PM in a central London church hall. Four days later, Brian Epstein received a non-committal "Don't call us, we'll call you" letter from Mr. Ronnie Lane, Light Entertainment Auditioner. It would only be when the Beatles had enjoyed a number one record that they would make their BBC TV debut.
After the audition, the Beatles sped back to Merseyside for an unusual engagement at the Tower Ballroom, the 12th annual "Lancashire and Cheshire Arts Ball". Sharing the bill with the Beatles were Billy Kramer and the Coasters (prior to Epstein's signing Kramer to a management contract, adding the spurious middle initial J and severing the Coasters link in favor of Manchester group the Dakotas) the Llew Hird Jazz Band and the Clan McCLeod Pipe Band.
Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead
Cavern Club, Liverpool
Lunchtime and Night Gig
Floral Hall, Southport
Another two "house" theatre appearance.
Lunchtime at the Cavern Club, then a afternoon trip of 85 miles to Staffordshire for a double header:
Smethwick Baths Ballroom, also known as “Thimblemill Baths” 2nd of the double header GIG was
