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Never-seen Beatles Photos from First U.S. Concert
In 1964, Mike Mitchell was an 18-year-old photographer on assignment for a little known magazine, when he scored a press pass to a concert that would make history.
Photographer Mike Mitchell with one of the Beatles 1964 Washington concert photos.
It was February 11, a few days after the Beatles arrived on their first U.S. tour, and the band was playing its first North American concert at the Washington Coliseum in the nation’s capital. Mitchell had unrestricted access to the stage that night and snapped scores of black-and-white photos. He put the negatives in a box, stored it in his basement, and forgot about them for almost 20 years.
Now the photos from that historic evening are going on the auction block at Christie’s New York. And they’re a sight to behold.
Mitchell photographed the Beatles individually and as a group, catching the essence of their appeal in sharply-focused, backlit images that he digitized years later and copied back into gelatin silver prints. Christie’s is offering each of the prints individually — only one per negative — at starting prices of between $1,000 and $6,000. Officials at the auction house say they expect the photos could fetch far more.
To see the photos and get more information on the auction, click here.
Ringo, Paul and Roger Daltrey: How They’re Spending Their Summer Vacations
Most celebrities publish their life stories as books. Ringo Starr is doing his autobiography in the form of a record. Ringo tells Uncut magazine he’s working on an album about his younger days in Liverpool.
“Right now, I’d rather put it quickly in a song, snippets of part of my life. Everybody talks about the Cavern Club, but in this new track, I actually mention the Iron Door, which was a much better club.”
Ringo launches a 27-date European tour in June with his All-Star band.
The other surviving Beatle, Paul McCartney, is about to re-issue a remastered version of his first solo album. The re-issued ‘McCartney’ will feature seven bonus tracks in addition to the original material released in 1970.
It’s being released in June along with ‘McCartney II,’ recorded in 1980, which will include eight bonus songs.
The Who’s Roger Daltrey is taking his show on the road this summer. Tickets go on sale Friday for The Who’s rock opera ‘Tommy, ‘ featuring Daltrey and bandmate Pete Townshend’s younger brother, Simon.
All 15 dates are in the UK. Daltrey performed ‘Tommy’ at a London charity concert earlier this year.
Townshend Wishes He’d Gone Solo
Townshend at Woodstock, 1969 (l); at the 2010 Super Bowl (r)
A half-century later, Townshend now says he wishes he never joined the band. He says despite The Who’s success, he’d have done better as a solo performer. Townshend told Uncut Magazine, “Even though I am quite a good gang member and a good trooper on the road, I am bad at creative collaboration.”
He added, “I would have made a much more effective solo performer and producer working the way Brian Eno has worked.”
Townshend also says he’d also be in better physical shape.
“My ears, right wrist and shoulder would work more efficiently,” he said. “In all other respects, I am in extremely good shape.”
The comments came on the eve of bandmate Roger Daltrey’s performance in “Tommy.” He’ll reprise the 1969 rock opera tonight in London.
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It’s Our First Birthday…
And we have plenty to celebrate! In the 12 months we’ve been streaming around the world, we’ve far exceeded our listenership projections: In the latest month, people spent an aggregate of 18,000 hours listening to British Invasion Radio. Almost 100 Live365 listeners have named British Invasion Radio as their favorite radio station. 1,000 fans have [Read More...]
Vote for Your Favorite British Invasion Songs
Everybody’s got one… what are your favorite songs from the British Invasion era? We’re compiling a list of listener choices. If your favorite tunes are included in the Top 50: They’ll be featured in a special program — “Your Top 50 Favorite British Invasion Songs” We’ll publish the results here on the website They’ll get [Read More...]
This month’s featured artists: The Searchers
What band began as a skiffle group in Liverpool in the late 50s, played local venues, traveled to Hamburg in 1962, returned home and scored one hit after another through the early 60s? OK, here’s another hint: They sang in intricate three-part harmonies, and one of them played a Rickenbacker guitar.
Actually two groups share this history: We don’t have to tell you the first. The second is perhaps the most underrated band of the British Invasion, the Searchers.
They took their name from the title of the 1956 Western starring John Wayne. Like the Beatles, the Searchers sang covers of American R&B songs at Liverpool’s Cavern and Iron Door before a four-month gig in Hamburg at the Star Club, where they played three shows a night.
Back in Liverpool, the Searchers signed on with Pye Records, and Tony Hatch became their producer. Hatch played piano on some recordings and wrote “Sugar and Spice” — the band’s second number one record — under the name Fred Nightingale; a secret he kept from the band at the time. [Read More...]
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