The Irish Mother, the Race horse and the Beatles
How a determined Irish woman help launch the career of the biggest pop band in history by guest blogger Brendan Farrell Mona (Mo) Best was the mother of a member of the most famous...
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Historic photo in improved quality
You have seen this photo before, but never in this quality. The photo of John, Paul and George in their cowboy style shirts, together with George’s best friend Arthur Kelly first showed up in...
New Clubmoor Hall or not?
Yesterday was the anniversary of a gig by the Quarry Men (or the Quarrymen) in the Conservative Club at New Clubmoor Hall. The image above has been identified as coming from that occasion, and...
John, Paul, George, Pete…and Ringo!
Five years ago, in 2015, we published a photo from the Tower Ballroom in New Brighton (close to Liverpool), of the Pete Best line up of the Beatles. What was special about that photo,...
Half a photo
Half a hitherto unseen photo was recently published in a John Lennon group on Facebook. It is a photo from December 8, 1961 and shows The Beatles (well, actually just John and Pete) backing...
The Beatles and Us
A quirky and affectionate portrait of Liverpool and how the relationship with her most famous sons has reflected and shaped the city’s changing fortunes. Many have said that the 5th Beatle was actually Liverpool,...
Early Paul and George
As you may or may not know, George Harrison and Paul McCartney were mates before they met John Lennon. In the recently released archive version of Paul’s 1997 album, “Flaming Pie”, there are a...
Penny Lane controversy
A Penny Lane street sun. Photo: Jackie Spencer Contrary to public opinion, the street “Penny Lane” in Liverpool was likely NOT named after James Penny, the anti-abolitionist and slave merchant who was said to...
1959 photo of John, Paul and George unearthed
Paul, John and George in Mona Best’s living room, late 1959. Causing quite a commotion among Beatles fans when it was published by the BBC as well as in the Daily Mail on April...
The end of Star-Club
Grosse Freiheit in 1970 The very famous Star-Club in Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg closed its doors on December 31, 1969. 50 years later, one of the last club operators – Achim Reichel – tells the...
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