The Beatles in the 2012 Classics List

In 2012 The Beatles ruled the Classics Top 100 list of Radio 1 (the most famous radio station in Flanders, Belgium). Here is that top 100 of 2012 1. Led Zeppelin Stairway to heaven
2. John Lennon Imagine
3. Bruce Springsteen Born To Run
4. Deep Purple Child In Time
5. Bob Dylan Like a Rolling Stone
6. Tom Waits Martha
7. The Beatles A Day In the Life
8. Queen Bohemian Rhapsody
9. The Beach Boys God Only Knows
10. Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
12. The Beatles Strawberry Fields Forever
23. The Beatles Yesterday
30. The Beatles Let It Be
44. The Beatles Here Comes the Sun
55. The Beatles In My Life
75. The Beatles Penny Lane
83. George Harrison My Sweet Lord

The Beatles first appear on the BBC radio

On 8 March 1962 at 5pm The Beatles could be heard for the first time on the BBC Light Programme. They had taped 4 songs the day before and now 3 of them were broadcast.

Peter Pilbeam, producer of 'Teenager's Turn', remembers The Beatles very well.

I wrote on their audition report that they were an unusual group, not as rocky as most, but more country and western with a tendency to play music.

The Beatles recorded 4 songs, but only 3 were transmitted:

- Hello Little Girl (sung by John)
- Memphis Tennessee (John) (Berry)
- Dream Baby (Paul) (Walker)
- Please Mr Postman (John) (Holland - Bateman - Cordy)

The Beatles record Teenager's Turn

On 7 March The Beatles entered a BBC radio studio for the first time. They had been selected to appear on "Teenager's Turn" in The Playhouse Theatre in Manchester

They recorded three songs: Dream Baby, Memphis Tennessee and Please Mr Postman.

Teenager's Turn was presented by Ray Peters and later changed its name to 'Here We Go'.

Transmissions were Thurdays from 5:00 - 5:30 pm

The Beatles at the YMCA in Hoylake, Wirral

On 24 February 1962 The Beatles experienced something they hadn't seen in a long time: a crowd that booed them off the stage.

They appeared at the YMCA in Hoylake, Wirral at the request of Charles Tranter, a club organiser who saw them first play at Mona Best's Casbah Coffee Bar.

After midnight The Beatles appeared at the Cavern. Other bands who played that night were the Red River Jazzmen, Ken Dallas & The Silhouettes, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Ken Sims' Vintage Jazz Band and Tony Smith's Jazz Band.

1981 NME Awards

Thirty years ago NME published its annual music awards

1981

Best Group: The Jam
Best New Act: Altered Images
Most Missed Person: John Lennon
Best Songwriter: Paul Weller
Best Female Singer: Siouxsie Sioux
Best Male Singer: David Bowie
Best Single: The Specials - 'Ghost Town'
Best LP: Echo & The Bunnymen - 'Heaven Up Here'
Best Dressed Sleeve: Echo & The Bunnymen - 'Heaven Up Here'
Best Guitarist: Paul Weller
Best Bassist: Bruce Foxton
Best Drummer: Rick Buckler
Best Keyboardist: Dave Greenfield
Best TV Programme: 'Coronation Street'
Best Radio Show: John Peel
Best Film: 'Gregory's Girl'
Most Wonderful Human Being: Paul Weller
Best Dressed Person: Michael Foot
Creep Of The Year: Adam Andy

The Beatles at St John's Hall, Tuebrook

After the Beatles returned from their first Tour of Duty in Hamburg, they were looking for gigs to play in and around Liverpool. Mona Best (Pete's mum) let them play in her Casbah Coffee Club but also created "Casbah Promotions" together with her son.

On Friday 17 February, 1961 The Beatles were paid £20 for their concert at St. John's Hall on Snaefell Avenue in Tuebrook (Liverpool). Appearing together with the "Fabulous Beatles Rock Combo" were Gene Day and the Jango Beats.

The Beatles knew Gene Day & the Jango Beats (later they were called Earl Preston and the Tempest Tornadoes), because when they arrived back from Hamburg they didn't have their equipment with them and had to borrow Gene Day's stuff for a gig in the Casbah.

Remember that The Beatles had been deported from Hamburg (George underaged,


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Valentine with the Beatles at the Cassanova Club

Happy Valentine! 50 years ago, on Tuesday 14 February 1961, the "sensational" Beatles played at the Cassanova Club in London Road, Liverpool. Other bands that play that night are Rory Storm & the Hurricanes (with Ringo Starr) and Mark Peters & the Cyclones.

In the mid 90's an 8mm film was discovered in a drawer in Liverpool. It contains a 30-second segment of the Beatles (John, Paul & George - Pete Best is obscured by John) who play at the ballroom. In the first segment George is singing and in the second one Paul does the vocals. The Beatles are wearing leather jackets, which would have been their standard attire from their Hamburg days.

The movie is in colour but silent, and could well be the oldest known film of the Beatles. Eventually the film sold for 15,000 pounds in 1996.

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4. The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article or used in the infobox.
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