18 May 1963
TV broadcast:
Thank Your Lucky Stars
ABC/ITV, 5.55 - 6.35 pm
recorded 12 May
Concert:
Adelphi Cinema, Bath Road, Slough, Buckinghamshire
Some Other Guy
Do You Want To Know A Secret
Love Me Do
From Me To You
Please Please Me
I Saw Her Standing There
Twist And Shout
The Beatles, Roy Orbison, and Gerry and the Pacemakers in the Slough Adelphi dressing room
George Martin presents a Silver Disc to Brian and the boys for "From Me To You"
Gerry also received a Silver Disc for "How Do You Do It?"
Opening night of a three-week tour with Roy Orbison. At some point on the tour, Orbison graciously stepped aside and let the Beatles close the show as headliners.
Roy Orbison recalled: "Brian [Epstein] said, 'Who should close the show?', and John said, 'You're getting all the money, so why don't we close it?' I don't know whether that was true or not, whether I was getting that much more than they were. I certainly wasn't getting that much - and the tour had sold out in one afternoon."
Source: http://www.spencerleigh.demon.co.uk/Fabs_Americans.htm
"We sat nicely in our seats until [sic] came on stage, when we stood and screamed our heads off and could hear hardly anything! I was fan number 114 in the original fan club. I was 14 at the time and it seems another world away.
Liz Taylor"
Source: Sunday Times, 7 September 2009
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