Like many other young bands in the early Sixties, the Beatles honed their live skills performing lengthy daily sets in the music clubs Hamburg’s notorious red light district, the Reeperbahn. Now Beatlemania has returned to the city with the opening of a new museum.
Beatlemania Hamburg features displays of memorabilia and imaginative interactive [...]
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Sixties Happenings - Beatlemania Returns To Hamburg
5 June, 2009 – 11:31 am
Tommy Quickly
17 May, 2009 – 9:00 am
Watch Tommy Quickly performing ‘Stagger Lee’ in 1964 here:
All but forgotten today, Liverpool vocalist Tommy Quickly was once set to follow the Beatles’ road to stardom. Their manager, Brian Epstein, spotted his talent while he was performing in his band the Challengers and signed him to his company NEMS as a solo artist when Quickly [...]
Chris Welch’s Memories, Part 5
1 May, 2009 – 11:42 am
There were two sorts of clubs: the rock clubs that the public went to and the night-clubs that all the stars went to. The nice thing was the bands all lived in London then - they would have moved down from Liverpool or Manchester or Cardiff or Newcastle. Usually in the evenings, the last thing [...]
Sixties Happenings - The Beatles Appear at the Movieum
30 April, 2009 – 12:28 pm
The Getty Images Gallery is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Beatles’ last live performance on the roof of the Apple Building in London’s Savile Row by showcasing an exhibition of rare images of the group taken between 1963 and 1970.
The collection is on display at the new permanent Getty Images photographic exhibition space at [...]