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Tag Archives: Cavern Club

Oct 10 0 comments
Interviews by Happy Nat

Beatles Fan Club Secretary, Freda Kelly seeks to make new film

Liverpudlian Freda Kelly was the Beatles Official Fan Club Secretary from 1963 until it closed in 1972, two years after the breakup of The Beatles. I spoke with Freda back in March (2011) at the Fest For Beatles Fans in New Jersey, but this was before any plans were in place about her new film [...]

Aug 29 7 comments
BROW

Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Sweet Georgia Brown (w/original Sheridan vocal)

Welcome to the Beatles Rarity Of The Week. Most Beatles fans are aware of the recordings The Beatles made with Tony Sheridan, another English singer/guitarist they regularly backed during their stint at the Top Ten Club in Hamburg. Of the eight songs eventually released commercially, the most popular is My Bonnie, largely because it was [...]

Mar 31 6 comments
Interviews by Happy Nat

Freda Kelly – Beatles Fan Club Secretary, 1963-1972

Liverpudlian Freda Kelly was the Beatles Fan Club Secretary from 1963 until it closed in 1972, two years after the breakup of The Beatles. The Official Beatles Fan Club originally formed in May of 1962 and was managed by Bobbie Brown, but when Bobbie became engaged in 1963, Freda took over and remained the secretary [...]

Feb 11 2 comments
VOW

Paul McCartney- Magical Mystery Tour Live at The 100 Club

Paul McCartney played a lunchtime gig at London’s famed 100 Club on 17 December, 2010. The club, the city’s oldest live music venue, has been under threat of closure due to an increase in rent. This was Paul’s smallest gig in more than a decade ago when he played at the historic Cavern Club in [...]

Sep 13 0 comments
BROW

Beatles Rarity Of The Week – I Saw Her Standing There (Live for Saturday Club)

Welcome to the Beatles Rarity of the Week. Plans for The Beatles to do a recording session for the BBC radio program Saturday Club fell through on March 11, 1963 because John Lennon came down with a sore throat. Plan B was put into effect, which was to just do a live performance during the [...]

Apr 16 2 comments
Films, VOW

The Beatles’ First Video

Since this footage pre-dates even their first 45, Love Me Do, we are lucky it has been preserved at all. This is The Beatles covering the old RIchie Barrett hit, Some Other Guy at the infamous Cavern Club. Granada Television filmed The Beatles with their new drummer, Ringo Starr, on August 22, 1962, to “possibly” [...]