Today in Beatles History: September 21

** The following events in Beatles history all took place on September 21. **

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Beatles * [J] John * [P] Paul * [G] George * [R] Ringo * [O] Other
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1960
The Beatles perform at the Indra Club, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg,
West Germany.

1961
The Beatles perform a lunchtime show at the ****rn Club, Liverpool
and a night show at Litherland Town Hall, Liverpool. A capacity
crowd shows up at Litherland Town Hall to hear The Beatles, Gerry &
the Pacemakers, and Rory Storm & the Hurricanes, all for the
admission price of only 3 shillings (15 pence).

1962
The Beatles perform at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey.
Five groups appear in celebration of Rory Storm's birthday.

1964
The Beatles, their first American tour now history, fly back to
England. One thing that had appalled The Beatles at several of the
US concerts was the wheeling of disabled persons into The Beatles'
dressing rooms to meet them and receive their magical touch. To
The Beatles, their tour consisted of a blur of newsmen, policemen,
flight crews, local officials and social climbers, disabled fans,
promoters, and the great faceless, screaming mass of their
audience. The personal interaction with their fans that they so
treasured was gone, and the constant tension that surrounded them
was barely endurable. In Las Vegas they'd had to play under the
pall of a bomb threat. An astrologer predicted that The Beatles'
plane would crash en route from Philadelphia to Indianapolis, with
no survivors. Also, tour-hopping from city to city was not a big
problem in Britain, but criss-crossing the wide expanses of the USA
proved to be a real strain. The next tour would be planned with a
great deal more care.

[P] 1976
Wings performs a concert in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

1987
US re-release of Beatles album "Magical Mystery Tour" on CD
(Capitol). The entire CD is in stereo. The original 1967 vinyl LP
included three songs in "electronically reprocessed" (that is,
fake) stereo: "Penny Lane", "Baby, You're a Rich Man", and "All You
Need is Love".

1987
UK re-release of Beatles album "Magical Mystery Tour" on CD (EMI).
All songs in stereo; on the original US and UK vinyl LPs, three of
the songs ("Penny Lane", "Baby You're a Rich Man", and "All You
Need is Love") were heard in "electronically reprocessed" (fake)
stereo. Only a German release of the album and a UK cassette
release were previously all-stereo.



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