Fresh from the success of A Hard Day’s Night, The Beatles had the world at their feet and pitched to follow in the globetrotting wake of…
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For decades, Liverpudlian music lovers would head to Hessy’s Music Centre (known locally simply as “Hessy’s”) to buy their first musical instruments. Founded by Frank…
“We’re more popular than Jesus right now”, John Lennon said in 1966 at the height of The Beatles success. His irreverent remark caused a storm of controversy…
1964 was shaping up to be an extremely busy year for The Beatles. After touring the United States and Canada, sparking Beatlemania and performing their…
The Silver Beetles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Stuart Sutcliffe) failed an audition as Billy Fury’s backing group but drew a consolation prize…
Originally arranged as rehearsals for a one-off live show, the TV documentary/concert McCartney envisioned devolved instead into a depressing fly-on-the-wall ogle at The Beatles’ dissolution.…
This hour-long made-for-television film starring The Beatles first aired on BBC1 on 26 December 1967. The public and critics attacked the movie the very next day,…
Malcolm Frederick Evans was born in Liverpool on 27 May 1935 to Frederick and Joan Evans and grew up in Waldgrave Road, Wavertree, Liverpool, along…
1 9 6 5 (UK) 1 x 55 minute episode Granada Television producer Johnnie Hamp rounded off 1965 with the biggest musical showcase when he enticed The…
If anyone beyond Brian Epstein and George Martin deserved to be called ‘the fifth Beatle’ it was probably Neil Stanley Aspinall. While other aides, such…
On 12 October 1969, out of the blue, a Detroit radio station began announcing that Paul McCartney was dead. The shock claim was picked up…
Inspired equally by show tunes, music hall and rock ‘n’ roll, the young James Paul McCartney (whose first guitar, incidentally, was a Rosetti Lucky 7…
At the height of the British Skiffle craze, John Lennon and some enthusiastic but musically limited school friends from Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool…
Richard Starkey was born in the Dingle area of Liverpool on 7 July 1940. While John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best sweated through their musical apprenticeship…
Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe was born on 23 June 1940 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His mother, Martha (known as Millie), was a teacher at an infants’…
“John, please don’t go. They’ll kill you,” screamed one of the 500 young Beatlemaniacs who braved the London rain to watch John, Paul, George and…
During the summer of 1967, The Beatles’ Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club album had shot straight to the top of the UK and US album charts. A…
On 27 December 1960, The Beatles appeared at the Litherland Town Hall Ballroom in Liverpool in a performance widely regarded as being a turning point in…
30 January 1969 The Beatles made their last ever live appearance together on 30 January 1969, putting on a free lunchtime concert on a hastily…
“We want The Beatles, we want The Beatles” was the cry that drowned out the noise of the jet airliners at the John F Kennedy…