The Beatles

Hard to imagine this was hearly 60 years ago

I don't think The Beatles ever played The Emp.
I can't find any reference to this event in the Beatles archive.

I did wonder. I thought it was the Ritz that they played.

They did play there,according to a few on WW.

Yes-, I saw them at the Ritz, round about 1964 I think.

Couldn't hear them too well with all the girls screaming LOL.

The Beatles played the Stockton Globe on the day their second album was released in November 1963.

Photographer Ian Wright was just 18 when he captured The Beatles on stage on 22 November 1963. But the photos never made it into his newspaper because of an event half-way around the world.

The Beatles had just played their first set at the Stockton Globe to 2,400 screaming girls, and another 2,400 were making their way in for the night's second performance when the frontman of the support band heard a newsflash on his transistor radio.

"He had a clapped-out trannie that was held together with chewing gum and elastic bands, and he used to tie the little aerial around one of his cymbal stands," recalls Wright, who was hanging around backstage.

"He was tuning in to Radio Luxembourg to find out who was in the top 10. All of a sudden there was a crash. He'd dropped the cymbals. He came out and looked completely gaunt and ashen. He mumbled something but you couldn't grasp what he was saying.

"And then he composed himself and he said, 'It's just been on Radio Luxembourg. The president of the United States of America has been assassinated.'

"It was surreal. The place just went silent."




They returned  to the venue in October 1964.

Wright's paper the Northern Echo, under the direction of legendary editor Harold Evans, immediately turned out a special edition that went on a fleet of lorries to London in an attempt to beat the national titles to the following morning's commuter trade.

The day of the gig also saw the release of The Beatles' second album With The Beatles, but the paper's exclusive story about the world record 350,000 advance orders went by the wayside, as did Wright's photos from that night - which remained unpublished for almost half a century.

The Stockton-on-Tees venue shut in 1975 and did not operate as a music venue for almost half a century, until it reopened after a £28m renovation (delayed and way over budget)

Wright's photos of The Beatles and other iconic artists who performed there in the 60s, many of which have never been seen, have now gone on permanent display at the venue, as well as being included in a new book.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58718909

Brian Epstein,
born on Yom Kippur to a family of Russian and Lithuanian Jewish descent, first discovered The Beatles in 1961 at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. He became the band’s manager in 1962, overseeing the group’s transformation from a scruffy local band to the suit-wearing global sensation who would play on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964.

https://www.jta.org/2021/11/08/culture/brian-epstein-the-beatles-jewish-manager-to-be-honored-with-a-statue-in-liverpool

Thanks for the heads up gassey

The story of the Beatles' last official concert, which took place in San Francisco

https://www.sfgate.com/music/article/beatles-final-concert-san-francisco-candlestick-16411474.php

The sound isn't too good but it was nearly 60years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGuX3ixNx3U&t=1s