50 years of Beatlemania

[Pegleg]

I promise this really is the last, Paul Lamb with Son Ryan on guitar:

Enjoy!

[Radio64]

June 1964, Beatles band embark on their first 'world tour' taking in Denmark, NL, HK, NZ and a wet and windy Australia .. (the first part of the tour sans Ringo, fact fans):

[cloughie]

June 1964, Beatles band embark on their first 'world tour' taking in Denmark, NL, HK, NZ and a wet and windy Australia .. (the first part of the tour sans Ringo, fact fans):

Whatever became of Jim?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie_Nicol

[Radio64]

Whatever became of Jim?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie_Nicol

"..living as a recluse..." according to that

[Radio64]

US version of Hard Day's Night soundtrack released.


feat. some very nice instrumental versions by The George Martin Orchestra (sic.)

[Conchis]

I'm no fan of Macca but to dredge up the old Frog Chorus thing is a low-blow.

What people don't seem to get is that songs like that (and Yellow Submarine and Obla-Di Obla-Da) were written for children. But he can also turn his hand to rockers like Helter-Skelter and ballads like Here, There & Everywhere. I call that versatility, even if I don't personally go for it.

The Beatles suffered from occasional appalling lapses of taste (allowing Ringo to sing, for example) which means that they never made an album without at least one dispensable track (if they'd got George to sing Octopus's Garden on Abbey Road - he largely wrote the song, anyway, despite the credit - things might have been different).

[clive heath]

This a bit in advance but it was in my mind so here goes. My brother and I worked on the Beatles Christmas Show at Hammersmith Odeon. All we had to do was tear up tickets and direct people to their seats at the start of the two concerts and had time off in between. Part of the time we went to the nearby pub and as I might have mentioned before met the Yardbirds and got to know them. They came to a party at our South Ken basement flat and we went to see them at the 100 Club or was it the Flamingo? One girl who came to the show several times pressed us to arrange for her to meet the Yardbirds and eventually we told her where to find them. Dear Reader, she married one of them.
I looked up the show on google:


""Live: Another Beatles Christmas Show

The Beatles’ first performances of 1965 were a continuation of The Beatles’ Christmas Show, the variety night which ran from 24 December 1964 until 16 January 1965.
The shows took place at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. The Beatles normally did two performances on each night, to cope with popular demand for tickets.
The guest performers included Freddie And The Dreamers, Sounds Incorporated, Elkie Brooks, The Yardbirds, Michael Haslam, The Mike Cotton Sound and Ray Fell. The Beatles appeared in two sketches, one with Freddie Garrity of Freddie And The Dreamers, and another with the compère. They closed the shows with an 11-song set: Twist And Shout, I’m A Loser, Baby’s In Black, Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby, Can’t Buy Me Love, Honey Don’t, I Feel Fine, She’s A Woman, A Hard Day’s Night, Rock And Roll Music and Long Tall Sally.""

The Beatles were great what you could hear of them, we found that putting your fingertips just outside the ear canal acted as a bit of a "scream-filter".

I've edited this contribution, feeling somewhat ashamed at having lowered the tone of the thread and would like to plea for forgiveness by bringing to your attention No.99 on the Rolling Stones Top Beatle 100 which is a great favourite of mine and may be less well known than most.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O-wmVqFD4w

Jammy chords or what?.. and that middle eight!

[Sydney Grew]

. . . The great Ted Bates, the man who built Southampton FC into the footballing giant that it is today always used to talk about how he built teams around his players strengths, and found ways to deal with their weakneses . . .

I gave up playing ball games when I was around seven and a half.