Adelaide shed its prim image in 1964 as 300,000 fans greeted the Beatlesโspurred by DJ Bob Francisโs petitionโin a frenzy so wild even Lennon called it their best reception ever.
January 24, 1962, wasnโt just another cold Liverpool morning. It was the day four scruffy ladsโJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Pete Bestโput their faith in a well-dressed, fast-talking record store manager named Brian Epstein. With a few strokes of a pen, they signed a management contract that would change the course of music…
Flashback to 1961, a dimly lit Cavern Club in Liverpool, and a band about to explode into the stratosphere of rock legend. This is where we find The Beatles, raw and unrefined, far from their Sgt. Pepper days. Picture John Lennon, a youthful 20, and Paul McCartney, 19, strumming and crooning, while George Harrison, 18,…
In the cavernous echoes of Liverpoolโs bubbling music scene, a revolutionary resonance was brewing, and it was about to reverberate through the unassuming screen of regional television. On October 17, 1962, fresh off the release of their debut single โLove Me Do,โ The Beatles magnetized the airwaves on Granada Televisionโs โPeople and Places.โ Here in…