Star-Club, Hamburg, West Germany
The Beatles grudgingly left England and their chart record, radio, TV and increasingly prestigious live bookings, for an undesirable 5th and final club trip to Hamburg, playing for 13 nights. Despite the increased fee of 750DM (67 pounds) per man, per week, all four...
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.
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