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The Beatles: How a schoolboy made the band's earliest known UK concert recording

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The Liverpool Echo reports ... TJ Hughes in years gone by as plan for flats given the greenlight " Proposals to transform Audley House on London Road have been approved " Department store TJ Hughes has sat at the heart of Liverpool's city centre for almost 100 years. Moving to its current ...

The BBC reports ... The Beatles: Rare images of early Cavern Club gigs found In the article write-up ... Historian Mark Lewisohn described them as "whippet-thin under-nourished lads" following their tour to Germany. The band, who were then aged between 18 and 20, had recently returned from...

From the BBC ... Foo Fighters guitar expected to fetch £30k at Wiltshire auction A guitar used by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is expected to fetch up to £30,000 at auction. Grohl played the Gretsch White Falcon guitar in the 1997 video for Monkey Wrench. It was originally owned by the band's rh...

Thank you for taking the time to comment - much appreciated. Like you I'm now living some 200 miles, as the crow flies, from Birkenhead and have been since 1986. Though, here in High Wycombe I'm a great deal closer to London than you are in Norwich. I must say, the way things have worked out, I glad...

Lern Yerself Scouse courtesy of BBC Radio 4. An hour long audio presentation on the influences that have shaped the distinctive Liverpool accent, and how it's changing. How to cook Scouse | The 'National' Dish of Liverpool courtesy of You Tube. As some one, who as a boy, watched his mother cook cou...

Date: Saturday, 25 June 2022 Place: Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, Somerset, England Sir Paul McCartney makes history as oldest solo headliner at Glastonbury Just make yourself comfortable and CLICK HERE to watch ‘Macca’ - with the help of some friends - perform a near 3-hour set to a sold-out crowd.

Part of In Concert 50 on BBC Radio 2, celebrating 50 amazing concerts from 50 years The date: Monday, 30th March 1970 The place: The Paris Theatre , Lower Regent Street, London Original BBC listing “John Peel’s In Concert” Click here to listen to Fleetwood Mac In Concert Peter Green is credited with...

Screen captured from BBC Scotland; two hour-long documentaries featuring the distinctly Scots flavoured song-writing and performing talents of, first from the 1970s, the intensely private and ultimately tragic Gerry Rafferty . Followed from the 1980s by the Scottish-to-the-core identical twin brothe...

"Astrid Kirchherr, the photographer whose shots of the Beatles helped turn them into icons, has died aged 81."

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/ ... es-aged-81

While here in the UK I vaguely remember June Millington more as a 1970s feminist songwriter than a hard rockin’ guitarist. I knew absolutely nothing of the all-girl group that she and her younger sister, Jean Millington, together with drummer Alice de Buhr, and a couple of friends, formed in 1965 wh...

Having watched the video from start to finish, what I didn’t previously fully appreciate was the depth of animosity that persisted for fifty years between Hutchinson and Gustafson. Even with Johnny Gustafson as close to the end as he was when the recording was made, I got the feeling he didn’t want ...

"Legendary [Liverpool] singer who performed with the Beatles dies after suffering coronavirus" https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/legendary-singer-who-performed-beatles-17971354 I daresay Cy Tucker would have played the Iron Door Club on numerous occasions as part of Earl...

Paul McCartney's handwritten lyrics for The Beatles' song Hey Jude have sold at auction for £731,000 ($910,000). The anonymous buyer purchased the item for almost six times more than the £128,000 estimate. The lyrics sheet was among more than 250 items auctioned to mark 50 years since the Liverpool ...

As remember it Geoff, the inhalers came out of the Evans Medical factory in Speke - they were asthma inhalers. The chemicals involved are known as beta-agonists which, if taken in sufficient quantities, will speed the heart-rate up to achieve the desired state of euphoria, which in turn will keep on...