The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show for the second time

On Sunday February 16, 1964, The Beatles appeared a second time on the Ed Sullivan show, this time transmitted from the Napoleon Room in the Deauville Hotel, Miami, Florida.

At 2pm The Beatles had a full rehearsal. According to some sources this was taped and intended for broadcast, but this never happened.

The Beatles performed from 8 pm till approximately 9pm and about 2,500 fans attended. More than 3,500 tickets had been given out by CBS, so the Miami police had a lot of work to contain the 1,000 fans who were not allowed to enter.

Other artists on the bill included: - Mitzi Gaynor (an actress, singer and dancer who was born as Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber): She performed for an unprecedented nine-minute segment and "Too Darn Hot" and a blues medley
- Myron Cohen, the comedian
- Joe Louis, a professional boxer
- Sonny Liston, a professional boxer who would later fight against Cassius Clay (whom the Beatles would soon meet)

The Beatles performed six songs: She Loves You, This Boy, All My Loving, I Saw Her Standing There, From Me To You and I Want To Hold Your Hand.

The first Ed Sullivan had 73 million viewers, and this one about 70 million.

The Beatles Live at Carnegie Hall - Twice!

After a quick visit to Washington, The Beatles returned by train to New York City on Wednesday 12 February, 1964.

It was a public holiday (Lincoln's Birthday) and thousands of fans showed up at the station to welcome them back.

The Beatles then performed twice at Carnegie Hall (7:45 pm and 11:15 pm) and each time about 3,000 (mostly female) fans showed up.

They also received a gold disc from Swan Records because they sold one million copies of She Loves You. Incidentally, they met Shirley Bassey backstage. Later in her career she would cover The Beatles 4 times: Hey Jude, Eleanor Rigby, Yesterday and Something.

The Beatles Live at the Washington Coliseum

50 years ago on Tuesday 11 February 1964, The Beatles were due to appear at the Washington Coliseum.

Because of a heavy snow storm, Murray the K advised Brian Epstein to travel by train from New York to Washington instead of catching a plane.

They all travelled on the Pensylvania Railroad express train in a carriage that was aptly named "The King George".

When they arrived in the capital, they were greeted by approximately 2,000 fans (Murray the K. claims there were 10,000, but in those weather conditions it was already a miracle that 2,000 fans braved the wintery conditions).

The Beatles then went to WWDC, which was allegedly the first US radio station to have ever played a Beatles record.

In the evening they played a set at the Washington Coliseum, together with Jay & the Americans, The Righteous Brothers and Tommy Roe (whom they knew from the old days).

They performed 12 songs: Roll Over Beethoven, From Me To You, I Saw Her Standing There, This Boy, All My Loving, I Wanna Be Your Man, Please Please Me, Till There Was You, She Loves You, I Want To Hold Your Hand, Twist And Shout and Long Tall Sally.

This was also the night that they were pelted for the first time with Jelly beans (after George had told a newspaper that he liked them).

Where were you on February 9th, 1964 around 8pm?

Many people still remember where they were when JFK was shot in Dallas. Or for the younger generation: where they were when they heard about the deaths of Lady Di/Kurt Cobain/Michael Jackson.

But who remembers the Ed Sullivan show of February 9th, 1946? The "Night that Changed America" as it is sometimes called. The night when The Beatles appeared for the first time on an American show and 73,000,000 (almost 40% of all Americans at that time) sat in front of their TV set to watch the Fab Four from Liverpool, England perform 5 songs.

So, here is my question to you all: where were you? Did you get the chance to see it live?

The Beatles at the Cyrano Cinema in Versailles

On January 15th 1964 Ringo Starr took a BEA Vanguard airplane from London Airport to Paris. At that moment a very famous picture was taken, which shows Ringo holding up a TLES sign behind the BEA logo.

The picture can be found here: http://www.stareditions.com/Photo/7358-The-Beatles

In the afternoon The Beatles (minus Ringo) walked around the Champs-Elysées and had a coffee in the street. Many people (tourists and press) took pictures. Here is a typical example of such a picture: http://www.allposters.ie/-sp/The-Beatles-Sitting-Outside-a-Cafe-on-the-Champs-Elysees-in-Paris-January-1964-posters_i4164495_.htm

In the evening they went to the  Cinéma  Cyrano in Versailles, where they performed (together with 8 other acts) for a crowd of approximately 2,000 guests. Some bootlegs are rumored to have taken their material from this appearance, and the lack of screaming girls is a refreshing thing to hear.

Other acts included Sylvie Vartan and Trini Lopez, who was having several hits at that moment with "If I had a Hammer" and "This Land is your Land".

Complete List of The Beatles concerts in Summer 1963

After the extremely succesful concert tour with Roy Orbison, The Beatles started on a massive Summer tour of 1963 that would take them all over England & Wales

10 June Pavilion, Bath
12 June Grafton Rooms, Liverpool
13 June Palace Theatre Club, Cheshire
13 June Southern Sporting Club, Manchester
14 June Tower Ballroom, New Brighton
15 June City Hall, Salisbury
16 June Odeon Cinema, Romford
21 June Odeon Cinema, Guildford
22 June Town Hall, Monmouthshire
25 June Astoria Ballroom, Middlesbrough
26 June Majestic Ballroom, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
28 June Queen’s Hall, Leeds
30 June ABC Cinema, Great Yarmouth
5 July Plaza Ballroom, Old Hill
6 July Memorial Hall, Northwich
7 July ABC Theatre, Blackpool
8-13 July Winter Gardens, Margate
14 July ABC Theatre, Blackpool
19-20 July Ritz Ballroom, Flintshire
21 July Queen’s Theatre, Blackpool
22-27 July Odeon Theatre, Weston-super-Mare
28 July ABC Cinema, Great Yarmouth
31 July Imperial Ballroom, Nelson
2 August Grafton Rooms, Liverpool
3 August Cavern Club, Liverpool
4 August Queen’s Theatre, Blackpool
5 August Abbotsfield Park, Urmston
6-7 August The Springfield Ballroom, Jersey, Channel Islands
8 August Candie Gardens, Guernssey, Channel Islands
9-10 August The Springfield Ballroom, Jersey, Channel Islands
11 August ABC Theatre, Blackpool
12-17 August Odeon Cinema, Caernarvonshire
18 August Princess Theatre Torquay
19-24 August Gaumont Cinema, Bournemouth
25 August ABC Cinema, Blackpool
26-31 August Odeon Cinema, Southport
4 September Gaumont Cinema, Worcester
5 September Gaumont Cinema, Taunton
6 September Odeon Cinema, Luton
7 September Fairfield Hall, Croydon
8 September ABC Theatre, Blackpool
13 September Public Hall, Preston
14 September Memorial Hall, Northwich
15 September Great Pop Prom, Royal Albert Hall, London

The Beatles Live at Gaumont Cinema, Southampton

On May 20th 1963 The Beatles performed their third concernt on the Roy Orbison Tour.

They performed: Some Other Guy, Do You Want To Know A Secret, Love Me Do, From Me To You, Please Please Me, I Saw Her Standing There and Twist And Shout

Other groups to peform that night were: Roy Orbison, Gerry and the Pacemakers, David Macbeth, Louise Cordet, Tony Marsh, Terry Young Six, Erkey Grant and Ian Crawford

It was The Beatles' first appearance at the Gaumont Cinema (previously know as Empire Theatre and later Mayflower Theatre) but they would be back on two more occasions: 13 December 1963 and 6 November 1964

Complete list of Roy Orbison and The Beatles Tour 1963

After playing for smaller audiences in April and May 1963, The Beatles went again on a monster tour, this time with Roy Orbison. Orbison was a major star, having had a string of hits which included Only The Lonely, Crying, Love Hurts, Running Scared, In Dreams and many many more.

Much later Roy Orbison would become one of the Traveling Willburys (together with George Harrison)

18 May Adelphi, Slough
19 May Gaumont, Hanley
20 May Gaumont, Southampton
22 May Gaumont, Ipswich
23 May Odeon, Nottingham
24 May Granada, Walthamstow
25 May City Hall, Sheffield
26 May Empire, Liverpool
28 May Gaumont, Worcester
29 May Rialto, York
30 May Odeon, Manchester
31 May Odeon, Southend-on-Sea
1 June Granada, Tooting
2 June Hippodrome, Brighton
3 June Granada, Woolwich
4 June Town Hall, Birmingham
5 June Odeon, Leeds
7 June Odeon, Glasgow
8 June City Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
9 June King George's Hall, Blackburn

Paul McCartney live at Estadio Governor Placido Castelo in Fortaleza, Brazil

Paul McCartney appeared life at the Placido Castelo Stadium in Fortaleza, his last leg of the Brazilian Out There Tour

The Set List:

    Eight Days A Week
    Junior's Farm
    All My Loving
    Listen To What The Man Said
    Let Me Roll It
    Paperback Writer
    My Valentine
    Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five
    The Long And Winding Road
    Maybe I'm Amazed
    Hope Of Deliverance
    We Can Work It Out
    Another Day
    And I Love Her
    Blackbird
    Here Today
    Your Mother Should Know
    Lady Madonna
    All Together Now
    Mrs Vandebilt
    Eleanor Rigby
    Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!
    Something
    Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
    Hi, Hi, Hi
    Band On The Run
    Back In The USSR
    Let It Be
    Live And Let Die
    Hey Jude

    Day Tripper
    Lovely Rita
    Get Back

    Yesterday
    Helter Skelter
    Golden Slumbers
    Carry That Weight
    The End

Paul McCartney live at Estadio Serra Dourada in Goiania, Brazil

Today Paul McCartney gave his second concert in Brazil during his "Out There" Tour.

Normally Paul McCartney is a punctual performer, but this time the concert started half an hour late because Paul's jet got delayed due to bad weather

McCartney's band was :
- Paul 'Wix' Wickens (vocals, keyboards, guitar, percussion, harmonica),
- Brian Ray (vocals, guitar, bass),
- Rusty Anderson (vocals, guitar) and
- Abe Laboriel Jr (vocals, drums).

The Setlist:


    Eight Days A Week
    Junior's Farm
    All My Loving
    Listen To What The Man Said
    Let Me Roll It
    Paperback Writer
    My Valentine
    Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five
    The Long And Winding Road
    Maybe I'm Amazed
    Hope Of Deliverance
    We Can Work It Out
    Another Day
    And I Love Her
    Blackbird
    Here Today
    Your Mother Should Know
    Lady Madonna
    All Together Now
    Mrs Vandebilt
    Eleanor Rigby
    Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!
    Something
    Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
    Band On The Run
    Hi, Hi, Hi
    Back In The USSR
    Let It Be
    Live And Let Die
    Hey Jude

    Day Tripper
    Lovely Rita
    Get Back

    Yesterday
    Helter Skelter
    Golden Slumbers
    Carry That Weight
    The End

Paul McCartney kicks off his Out There tour in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Today, Saturday May 4 2013, Paul McCartney kicked off his new World Tour (aptly called "Out There) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Approximately 55,000 fans watched the 70-year old ex-Beatle perform many songs that he never before performed live in concert.

First treat of the evening was "Eight Days a Week" which The Beatles only performed during their 1965 concerts. Other unique songs were "Your Mother Should Know", "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" and "All Together Now".

He also performed Lovely Rita for the first time and Another Day

The complete Belo Horizonte setlist

• Eight Days A Week
• Junior's Farm
• All My Loving
• Listen To What The Man Said
• Let Me Roll It
• Paperback Writer
• My Valentine
• Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
• The Long And Winding Road
• Maybe I'm Amazed
• Hope Of Deliverance
• We Can Work It Out
• Another Day
• And I Love Her
• Blackbird
• Here Today
• Your Mother Should Know
• Lady Madonna
• All Together Now
• Mrs Vandebilt
• Eleanor Rigby
• Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
• Something
• Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
• Band on the Run
• Hi, Hi, Hi
• Back in the U.S.S.R.
• Let It Be
• Live And Let Die
• Hey Jude

Encore:
• Day Tripper
• Lovely Rita
• Get Back

Second Encore:
• Yesterday
• Helter Skelter
• Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End

The Beatles Live at Co-op Hall, Middleton

Sorry if you found your way here by typing "Middleton" in Google and were hoping to find some nice pictures of Duchess Kate, but this is about the only time that The Beatles played a concert in Middleton, Lancashire.

On Thursday 11 April 1963 they appeared at the Co-operative Hall (better known by the locals as Co-op Hall) in Middleton.

They played for an audience of 300 crazed boys and girls, and the Middleton Guardian wrote a nice story about it. Some of it sounds a bit weird, like their claim that John and Paul were actually living next door to each other.

But when the article tries to explain why they are so popular, they are spot-on: "Perhaps one of the reasons for their success is the fact that most of their work is completely original and they seem to have an almost inexhaustible supply of new material"