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Authentic signed photos of The Beatles are a rare commodity, especially color images like this one. Carefully removed from an early British fan magazine, this photo measures 11 ¾” x 9” and features an image of the group in their light gray collarless suits as photographed by the legendary Dezo Hoffmann in mid-1963. All signatures…
As far back as the late 1950s and their formative days as ‘The Quarrymen’, the members of The Beatles always idolized Elvis Presley. Paul McCartney has said, “Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.” John Lennon once claimed that “Nothing really affected me until I…
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…
By the time mid-1963 rolled around, The Beatles were definitely starting to hit their stride. Their first LP “Please Please Me” was a number 1 hit record, and it was flanked on both sides by the number 1 singles “Please Please Me” and “From Me To You”. They were touring throughout Great Britain, all the…
On January 1, 1963, The Beatles flew from Hamburg to London after concluding a 13-night residency at Hamburg’s Star-Club the previous evening. With only one night’s rest in London and barely a breather in between, the group embarked the morning of January 2nd on a limited 5-date tour of Scotland. They caught a scheduled flight…
In the late fall of 1966, a charity LP called “Beatleviews-66” was released. The record contained interviews conducted with the Beatles while on their 1966 tour of North America. The narrator of the LP was Ken Douglas, a deejay from radio station WKLO in Louisville, Kentucky. In the mid-1960s, Douglas was somewhat of an anomaly…
On June 3rd, 1964, The Beatles departed London to embark upon their first World Tour. But it wasn’t the usual Beatles lineup as we know it, because Ringo Starr had just been admitted to the hospital with a sudden case of tonsillitis. Facing the cancellation of several concerts, manager Brian Epstein had to scramble and…
On November 7, 1963 The Beatles flew to Dublin, Ireland, where they played their only 2 gigs ever in the country at the Adelphi Cinema later that evening – one at 6:30 and the other at 9:00. Just 3 days earlier they made their famous appearance before the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret at the…
On June 3, 1964, Ringo Starr was stricken during a morning photo shoot in Barnes, UK and taken to University College Hospital. There, with a temperature of 102°, he was diagnosed with tonsillitis and pharyngitis. With The Beatles’ first world tour scheduled to begin in Copenhagen, Denmark the following day, the band was faced with…
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