14 April 1963
Television recording:
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Teddington Studio Centre, Broom Road, Teddington, Middlesex
(rehearsal: 11.00 am; recording: afternoon; broadcast: ITV, 5.50 - 6.30 pm, 20 April)
From Me To You (mimed)
With fellow acts Del Shannon, Bert Weedon, the Vernons Girls, and the Dave Clark Five.
Rehearsal
Telesnaps of the actual broadcast
In the evening, The Beatles drove to Richmond-upon-Thames and first set eyes on The Rolling Stones, performing at the Station Hotel's Crawdaddy Club. After the gig, there was a Beatles-Stones summit at the Stones' Edith Grove flat in Chelsea, where both groups swapped stories until the wee hours of the morning. Nine days later, Beatles publicist Andrew Oldham made the pilgrimage to the Crawdaddy and fell in love with the Stones, becoming their co-manager within a month.
"We were playing a little club in Richmond and I was doing this song, and suddenly I saw - there they were, right in front of me: the Fab Four! John, Paul, George and Ringo! The four-headed monster - they never went anywhere alone at this point. And they had on these beautiful long, black leather trenchcoats. I could really die for one of those. And I thought, 'Even if I have to learn to write songs, I'm gonna - I'm gonna get this.'"
- Mick Jagger inducting The Beatles into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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