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🎶 Good morning, good morning 🎶

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The Beatles behind the bar at the Wimbledon Palais, London, to shake hands with fans before a special performance for members of their Southern Area fan club. 14 December 1963.

'The strangest of these occasions was the Southern Area Fan Club Convention on Saturday, December 14. In a never-to-be-repeated marathon flesh-pumping experience The Beatles shook the overheated hands of almost 3,000 Beatle People in the space of a few hours. We took over Wimbledon Palais - probably the best-known ballroom in London in its heyday - for the event, and filled the place with invited club members chosen at random. The Beatles stood for several hours behind the ballroom’s long wooden bar, leaning across to be kissed by their fans or to sign autograph books. Considering the high excitement of the situation, the fans were well-behaved. Neil and Mal acted as security guards, keeping the seemingly endless queue moving along and occasionally untangling a Beatle who had become hopelessly enmeshed with an over-excited fan.'

- Tony Barrow, John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me (2005)

After these close encounters with the Fab Four, the fans were treated to a special stage show in the main ballroom area where an overprotective Palais management had constructed a high-walled metal cage inside which the group were to perform on an extended makeshift stage beneath a huge banner that screamed: WIMBLEDON PALAIS WELCOMES THE BEATLES. Welcomes? The cage didn’t make it look like that! In my lengthy preparatory discussions with the Palais people they had seriously understated their plans to surround The Beatles’ stage with metal barriers for the protection of both the boys and their fans. When we saw the reality of the monstrous structure we were furious. The Beatles threatened at first to walk out unless the whole intimidating barricade was demolished and there were mutterings about “prison conditions” and “more like a zoo than a dance hall”. Eventually, for the sake of their fan club members, they went on and gave an enthusiastic mini-concert. During this, as the crowd surged forward pinning those with a place in the front row against the cage, John remarked in a loud stage whisper: “If they press any harder they’ll come through as chips.”

- Tony Barrow, John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me (2005)

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John Lennon

© Astrid Kirchherr

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Hope you all had a Gary Chrimble and a Merry Goo Year.

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Paul McCartney at the Beatles press conference in Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, 5th June 1964

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59 years since this diva messed up his face baaaad

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Merry Christmas from the Beatles!

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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in Beatles '64 (2024)

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 Pattie Boyd | 12 January 1965 © Nancy Sandys Walker

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PAUL AND RINGO WERE TOGETHER TONIGHT!!!

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George Harrison in the music video for ‘End of the Line’ by the Traveling Wilburys (1989)

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GEORGE HARRISON in SOMETHING (1969)

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obsessed with this bit of paul twirling around in the alternative fool on the hill video in a way that is concerning

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Paul McCartney in Beatles '64 (2024)

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