"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, The Beatles & Bournemouth" by Nick Churchill

I spent a little while chatting with Nick Churchill, formerly of the Daily Echo in Bournemouth, U.K., about his new book, about which I wrote a short article last month (viewable here). The book is titled Yeah Yeah Yeah – The Beatles & Bournemouth, and it came out last September (2011).

Bournemouth, as I’m sure many reading already know, is a resort town on the southern coast of England, and Nick’s book gives us a plethora of details about many historical events that link The Beatles to this beautiful British settlement.

In the previous article, I point out some of the interesting ties listed on the book’s back cover of Beatles happenings in Bournemouth. These include:

1) The Beatles played more theater shows at the Bournemouth Gaumont (16 in all) than any other concert venue in the U.K. outside of London, and a taping of one of their shows there is the earliest known recording of a theater performance by the group.

2) A gig at Bournemouth’s Winter Gardens Theater on November 16, 1963, was the source of footage used by all three U.S. television networks covering the new “Beatlemania” craze in Europe. The resulting Nov. 21st telecast predated the Beatles’ Ed Sullivan Show appearance by two and a half months.

3) The famous cover art photo used on the With The Beatles album was taken in Bournemouth by Robert Freeman in 1963.

4) George Harrison’s first Beatles song, “Don’t Bother Me,” was written while staying in Bournemouth.

5) The story told in the 1969 Beatles single “The Ballad of John and Yoko” began while John was traveling to Mimi’s house where he ended up “standing in the dock at Southampton.” John actually purchased this home for Mimi, near Bournemouth.

Yeah Yeah Yeah also has around 200 previously unpublished Beatles photos (many by the late Harry Taylor of the Bournemouth Times). The book’s forward is written by Howie Casey, a long time Liverpudlian friend of The Beatles who was in Howie & The Seniors in the sixties and toured with Paul McCartney and Wings in the seventies.

For more about Nick and his book, check out what he himself has to say, right here:

From the book: The Beatles at the Palace Court Hotel in Bournemouth in August, 1963

More about Nick’s book can be found on the blog
http://beatlesbournemouth.blogspot.com.

And the book can be ordered from the publisher’s website at
www.beatlesandbournemouth.com.

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