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,...
Category: Beatles Liverpool
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...
The Cavern Club – The Beat Goes On …
Also available on DVD from the Cavern Club shop. Presented by Paul McGann, The Cavern Club and LA Factual have come together to produce ‘The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On’, a unique documentary...
Mojo celebrates Abbey Road
The upcoming edition of Mojo magazine celebrates Abbey Road’s 50th anniversary. The October edition of MOJO music magazine is in the shops in the UK on the 20th of August and comes in a...
Casbah poster found
Pete Howard at Poster Central has found another old poster advertising the Beatles. It’s hand drawn by Neil Aspinall and Mona Best, and is actually advertising a rare constellation of the Beatles: It’s from...
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