New old Beatles photo
The Beatles visited the ABC Theatre in Great Yarmouth twice. This poster is from their final appearance there. A 17 year old photographer’s assistant saved one of the negatives his boss was about to...
Category: Beatles Concerts
The rooftop concert: Fiftieth anniversary
It was 50 years ago today: The Beatles’ final concert. “One after 909” – the rooftop performance was used as a music video by the Beatles several years ago, aired very sparingly on television...
The Tokyo police film
The Beatles in Tokyo, 1966. It certainly looks like the police making security films around rock concerts was in vogue in 1966. So far we’ve seen police films around the Munich, Essen and Hamburg...
The Beatles – for free on YouTube
The Beatles – Free As Birds on YouTube! In an unprecedented move, The Beatles have released most of their albums for free – on YouTube. Whether or not this is going to be a...
The “lost” Cavern Club tape
Live at the Cavern Club, 1962. In mid-1962, “a fan in the audience” at the Cavern Club in Liverpool recorded a Beatles’ performance, more-or-less in full. It’s the only full-length recording of them live...
New footage from Candlestick Park
The Beatles live at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, 1966. Recently some hitherto not publicly available colour amateur film footage from The Beatles’ final concert was uploaded to YouTube. As you probably know, that final...
New source for “It’s The Beatles”
Imaginary CD cover for an imaginary CD. Last week, someone uploaded to Soundcloud his own audio tape recording of the televised concert “It’s the Beatles”, which was filmed at the Empire Theatre in Liverpool...
Who’s that girl?
Embed from Getty Images You’ve seen her. That girl posing with the Beatles in French hats. At present, the copyright is held by Getty Images. This is how they caption the image: “English group...
The Beatle Who Vanished – film
Embed from Getty Images In Ron Howard’s documentary film about The Beatles’ touring years, “Eight Days A Week“, Jimmie Nicol literally was “the Beatle who vanished”. Although briefly seen in the film, his presence...
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