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December 8 1961, Show at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton Wallasay, backing up Davy Jones November 1961, At the Cavern Club December 9, 1961 - First live performance in the south of England (Alderscot) August 19, 1961 with the Shimmy-Shimmy Queens
(Marie Williams, Joan Pratt, Maureen O'Donnell)
on stage at Aintree Institute, Longmoore Lane, Aintree

A few nights ago, I once again made the tragic personal mistake of rewatching "Birth of the Beatles". I've ranted about its insane inaccuracies before, so I wont now.

Ugh, what a mess.... and the sad thing is that it COULD have been a good film as the John and George and Pete and Stu characters are very good. Paul less so, Ringo not much at all.

A few nights ago, I once again made the tragic personal mistake of rewatching "Birth of the Beatles". I've ranted about its insane inaccuracies before, so I wont now.

Ugh, what a mess.... and the sad thing is that it COULD have been a good film as the John and George and Pete and Stu characters are very good. Paul less so, Ringo not much at all.

hmmm. what are your views on the movie Back Beat ?

Backbeat was a better movie (IMHO), although I think that the job the band RAIN did with "Birth of the Beatles" better captured the raw early Beatles sound than Backbeat did and I liked Backbeat's key actors better. With ANY of these movies it just drives me bananas that they cant get the details right .... there are plenty of photos of the period.... you'd think that they would at least be able to get the instruments right. If I were producing a Beatles movie the first thing I'd do would be to create a "Details Department" whose job it was to be as accurate to the photos as possible. (plus it would be nice if the actors could actually play the instruments well enough as to not be embarrassing fakers, but I guess thats too much to ask for)

The "ABC Manchester" is still going strong..........its The Apollo Theatre at Ardwick Green.
Host to many past and present including Wings.

It must be cool for McCartney to go back to a place where the Beatles played... deja-vu all over again.

Has anyone ever added up the total number of gigs that Paul has played.... all the way back to
The Quarrymen and the Nerk Twins. Golly.... anyone care to guess?

I'll geuss at hmmmmm.... 6-8 thousand?

Its been almost 50 years to the day since the Beatles went to Hamburg for the first time, and I guess you'd have to count each grueling hamburg day as one extended gig.

Averaging 50 gigs per year brings it to 2500... no doubt there were some years where there were more and some less. I'd say its probably somewhere between 2000 or 3500 ..... **only** 3500.... thats a lot.

Yeah I can see how I was off

knowing how many total gigs that WIngs did would help with the estimate.... anyone got that one?

For instance for the almost 15 month Wings Over the World tour they played 66 gigs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_Over_the_World_tour

Add to that his '93 New world tour, which DID include Australia! (17 years ago Paul! )The mind boggles.