Cry For A Shadow
I just came back from the Norwegian Beatles Festival, which was held in Bergen this weekend. It started on Thursday with a screening of the documentary about Colin Hanton, John, Paul and George’s first...
Category: Pete Best
Pete’s Beatles drumskin
On the 28th of September the Liverpool Beatles Museum unveiled the first Beatles drumskin to have the groups name displayed. The bass drumskin pre dates any other bass drumskin or Beatles logo known to...
Early Beatles pictures from Mike McCartney’s new book
Some lesser quality and never-before-seen early photos of members of The Beatles have been published by Genesis Publications. Mike McCartney’s new book, “Mike McCartney’s Early Liverpool” has finally arrived after having had some interruptions...
Paul shares “missing” Indra Club photo
Long time followers of our blog have seen this photo many times, as we have been forever in search for a good copy of a complete version of it. Taken as one of a...
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...
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,...
The Beatles’ first EMI tape
The late Geoff Emerick worked as sound engineer for The Beatles from 1966. But he was present right from the beginning. And now it turns out that the engineer, who died in 2018, has...
Interesting new YouTube channel
The quintet with their lilac jackets at the Indra Club. Former drummer in the Beatles between August 1960 and August 1962, Pete Best is promoting his brother Roag Best’s Beatles museum in Liverpool’s Mathew...
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...
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