1963, March

The Beatles at De Montfort Hall, Granville Rd., Leicester, Leicestershire - The final night of the tour with Tommy Roe and Chris Montez.

The Beatles at Guildhall, The Square, Portsmouth, Hampshire

The Beatles at Odeon Cinema, Loampit Vale, Lewisham, London

The Beatles at ABC Cinema, London Inn Square, Exeter, Devonshire

The Beatles at ABC Cinema, Abingdon Square, Northampton, Northamptonshire

The Beatles at Granada Cinema in Mansfield

The Beatles spent the tour's one-day break today at a number of local locations with photographer Dezo Hoffmann, with both stills and 8mm mute color home-movie footage resulting. They later repeated this exercise in Weston-super-Mare.

Empire Theatre, Liverpool

A celebrated return to the Beatles hometown, their first Liverpool performance in more than a month.

The Beatles playing at City Hall, Northumberland Rd. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland

The Beatles featured at the Gaumont Cinema, Doncaster

While the Lads worked hard without much fanfare "Please Please Me" The Beatles First LP was released in Great Britain with the following tracks.

1. I Saw Her Standing There 2. Misery 3. Anna (Go To Him) 4. Chains 5. Boys 6. Ask Me Why 7. Please...

Studio One, BBC Piccadilly Studios, Piccadilly, London

Between 1:00 and 2:00 pm, following a 10:00 am rehearsal, the Beatles recorded a BBC Radio session for "On the Scene", broadcast in the Light Programme from 5:00 to 5:29 pm on Thursday, March 28th. They performed three songs, "Misery", Please P...

ABC Cinema, South St. Romford, Essex

Regal Cinema, St. Andrews Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Regal Cinema, St. Aldate Street, Gloucester, Gloucestershire

Embassy Cinema, Peterborough

Studio 3A, Broadcasting House, Portland PI, London and City Hall, Sheffield

Owing to their Radio Luxembourg commitment, and John's cold, the Beatle's had been forced to cancel the March 11th session for this day's BBC Light Programme Radio Show "Saturday Club" (recording had been arranged for the P...

Colston Hall, Colston St. Bristol

John returned to the Beatle's line-up for these two "houses".

Gaumont Cinema, Snow Hill, Wolverhampton, Staffs

Editing, mono mixing and stereo mixing of "From Me To You", by George Martin and team took place this day at EMI Studios, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. The Beatles were absent, still traveling south from York to Wolverhampton for another night's work wit...

Studio Two, EMI Studios, London and Rialto Theatre, York

The Beatles traveled from Bedford to York for this evening's two Roe/Montez "house" via EMI Studios in London, where they participated in a 10:00 am to 1:00 pm harmonica over-dubbing session for "Thank You Girl", recording takes 14-28. When f...

Granada Cinema, Bedford

The Roe/Montez tour. This was a three-man Beatles performance because a bad cold kept John in bed. The songs, particularly "Please please me", were re-arranged so that George and Paul could take over his vocal lines.

EMI House, London

The Beatles spent the evening of the one-day Monday respite from the tour inside the small ground floor studio within EMI House, making their 4th and last appearance on the Company's "The Friday Spectacular", broadcast on Radio Luxembourg on March 15th from 10:00 to 11:00 pm. Once...

Hippodrome Theatre, Hurst St. Birmingham, Warks

After this date, the tour resumed on the 12th.

Granada Cinema, Barking Rd. East Ham, London

Five days after concluding the Helen Shapiro tour, five days in which they had fulfilled three live engagements, a recording session for EMI and a radio session for the BBC - the Beatles set off going around a still-snowbound Britain on a second theater ...

The Beatles at the Royal Hall, Ripon Rd. Harrogate, Yorkshire

Elizabethan Ballroom, Co-Operative House

Parliament St. Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

An inspirational idea from Brian Epstein, a one-night stand featuring his fast growing array of artists, all beginning to enjoy great success. The Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Big Three, and Bill J. Krame...

Playhouse Theater, Manchester

A return trip to the Playhouse in Manchester for the Beatles 5th and final appearance on the BBC Light Program radio show "Here we go", produced by Peter Pilbeam, the man who had auditioned and broadcast the group before they had an EMI recording contract. After a 4:00...

Studio Two, EMI Studios, London

Five days after writing on the Helen Shapiro coach, the Beatles recorded "From me to you" this day at EMI. It began the session at the B-side of their 3rd single, during the session, however, it was promoted to premier status over the previously preferred "Thank you ...

The Beatles first 100 pound booking at the Plaza Ballroom, St. Helens

Gaumont Cinema, Piccadilly, Hanley, Staffordshire

The final night of the Helen Shapiro package tour. By this time, the Beatles had been elevated on the bill from playing the first spot to the final act in the first half.

City Hall, Barker's Pool, Sheffield, Yorkshire and then Studio One, Didsbury Studio Centre, Parrs Wood Rd. Manchester, Lancashire

After finishing the 2nd Shapiro "House" at Sheffield, the Beatles drove 38 miles to Manchester, to appear live on the ABC TV news magazine program ABC At Large, boradcas...