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On March 22, 1963, The Beatles released their first LP on Parlophone Records entitled Please Please Me. But on this day, only the Mono version of the album was put out for sale in record stores in the United Kingdom. It wasn’t until five weeks later, on April 26th that Parlophone made available (through special…
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Only 5 days after The Beatles month long tour with Helen Shapiro ended, and additionally another 3 concerts following in those 5 days (Saint Helens, Nottingham and Harrogate), The Beatles were back on the road again. Between March 9, 1963 through March 31, 1963, The Beatles were out crisscrossing England for their “Spring U.K. Tour”,…
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Here is a sheet of off white colored paper measuring 8″ x 10″ on which The Beatles have all signed beautifully using a black flair marker. Ringo Starr has inscribed “To Jenny Love from the Beatles” and the inscription is positioned as such that “To Jenny” can be matted out if framed for display, with…
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On Wednesday, March 4th 1964, The Beatles were 3 days into the filming their first feature film entitled “A Hard Day’s Night” – just 2 short weeks after returning from their triumphant first U.S. visit. On this day they filmed some of the train sequences that appear early in the film, while traveling between Acton…
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In the spring of 1963, in his Wardour Street studios in London, photographer Dezo Hoffmann held a photo session with The Beatles that produced the single most iconic image of the band ever taken: the classic seated collarless suits portrait that was used on countless pieces of memorabilia and sent around the world for publicity…
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On Monday, September 11, 1967, two weeks of filming commenced on The Beatles’ new self-conceived movie project, “Magical Mystery Tour”. Boarding a Bedford VAL Panorama coach bus in central London, The Beatles and a motley crew of passengers (which consisted of their friends and office staff, a camera crew and a handful of actors and…
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In the Beatles’ early years, as manager Brian Epstein crafted their image and spearheaded their publicity machine, it wasn’t unusual for the group’s schedule to include multiple events in a single day. Monday, January 21, 1963 was one of those days. In the morning alone, they would attend a photo session and make a radio…
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In the late 1950s, Liverpool photographer Bill Connell moved his recently-opened Peter Kaye Studio into a three-story, double-fronted shop at 174 Park Road in the Dingle area of town. With Brian Dawe as his assistant and Les Chadwick as his main photographer, Connell (“Peter Kaye”) began to make a name for himself around the city…
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On Sunday, September 1, 1963, fresh from a six-night concert stint in Southport and concurrent filming for the documentary that would later be broadcast as The Mersey Sound, The Beatles traveled the 32 miles from Liverpool to Manchester’s Didsbury Studio Centre. Here, they taped an appearance on ABC Television’s Big Night Out, the variety show…
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