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The Beatles arriving for concerts in Madrid, July 1965. From 1961 to 1966, the English rock band the Beatles performed all over the Western world. They began performing live as The Beatles on 15 August 1960 at The Jacaranda in Liverpool and continued in various clubs during their visit to Hamburg, West Germany, until 1962, with a line-up of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart ...
Malcolm Frederick Evans (27 May 1935 – 4 January 1976) was an English road manager and personal assistant employed by the Beatles from 1963 until their break-up in 1970.. In the early 1960s Evans was employed as a telephone engineer, and he also worked part-time as a bouncer at the Cavern Club.
The Beatles Winter 1963 Helen Shapiro Tour; The Beatles' 1964 North American tour; The Beatles' 1964 world tour; The Beatles' 1965 European tour; The Beatles' 1965 UK tour; The Beatles' 1965 US tour; The Beatles' 1966 tour of Germany, Japan and the Philippines; The Beatles' 1966 US tour
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.They are widely regarded as the most influential band in Western popular music and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular music as an art form.
During the Beatles' American tour in August 1965, Harrison's friend David Crosby of the Byrds introduced him to Indian classical music and the work of sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. [ 251 ] [ 252 ] Harrison described Shankar as "the first person who ever impressed me in my life ... and he was the only person who didn't try to impress me."
Epstein's grandfather, Isaac Epstein, was Lithuanian-Jewish.He arrived in Britain in the 1890s at the age of eighteen, from what was then part of the Russian Empire. [3] [4] His grandmother, Dinah, was the daughter of Joseph, a draper, and Esther Hyman, who had emigrated from Russia to Britain circa 1871/72 with their eldest son, Jacob.
The Beatles, with disc jockey Jim Stagg (front row, second from left), in August 1966. Stagg was part of the press corps attached to the tour, reporting for WCFL Chicago. [36] The tour's only stopover in the Bible Belt was Memphis, Tennessee, [56] where two shows were scheduled at the Mid-South Coliseum for 19 August. [57]
Maureen Starkey Tigrett (born Mary Cox; 4 August 1946 – 30 December 1994), also known as Mo Starkey, was a hairdresser from Liverpool, England, best known as the first wife of Ringo Starr, the Beatles' drummer. When she was a trainee hairdresser in Liverpool, she met him at the Cavern Club, where the Beatles were