Beatles FAQ

  Outside Paul's family home in the early 1960s Soon after first seeing them at the Cavern, Brian Epstein invited The Beatles for a formal meeting at his office. This was arranged for the afternoon of Sunday, 3rd December 1961, at 4.30. Epstein wanted to manage the band but had doubts about their reliability and professionalism. The Beatles, for their part, had achieved success in Hamburg and Liverpool but had no record deal or national profile. John, George, and Pete took the bus to the meeting. They arrived on time - but after forty five minutes, there was still no sign of Paul.  A call was made to the McCartney family home. This revealed that  Paul had just got up and was having a bath. Epstein exploded, "How can he be so late for such an important meeting?"     To which Harrison famously replied, "He may be late, but he's very clean".  A frosty silence melted into laughter. Why was Paul so late? On one level, Paul's lateness was symptomatic of  wha...

  We were first introduced in about 1974 by Elizabeth Taylor. 

The 'Paul is Dead' rumour began in early 1967. The Abbey Road cover photo provided new 'clues.' 

57 Wimpole Street where Paul lived with the Asher family

The Beatles learned some very basic, functional German while in Hamburg. They were resolutely English in their approach to pronunciation, intonation and attempting to mimic accent. 

On July 4th 1966, The Beatles played two concerts in the Philippines as part of what would be their final world tour. These took place over a single afternoon and evening  at the Rizal Stadium, Manila. 

We didn’t sing our own songs in the early days — they weren’t good enough, John Lennon We started as a little covers band,  Paul McCartney

Julia Lennon  (née Stanley) gave birth to her first child, John Winston Lennon, at Liverpool Maternity Hospital during the early hours of 9 October, 1940.  

  Slim Whitman with his Gibson - the sound George aspired to.  George tried to teach himself [the guitar]. But he wasn’t making much headway. ‘I’ll never learn this,’ he used to say. I said, ‘You will, son, you will. Just keep at it.’  Louise Harrison, the mother of George