photo by Harry Taylor ©
Dave Robinson
Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Beatles & Bournemouth is the definitive account of the
connections between the greatest rock ’n’ roll group that ever was and a small
town on the south coast of England.
- In just
14 months from August 1963 to October 1964 The Beatles played more shows at the
Bournemouth Gaumont than any other concert venue in the UK outside London.
- A tape of
a full Beatles concert recorded during their first visit to Bournemouth is the
earliest known example of their theatre show. Despite the excellent quality of
the recording it remains unreleased.
- The
iconic cover photograph for the With
The Beatles and Meet The
Beatles albums was taken in Bournemouth.
- Howie
Casey, who played with Wings in the 1970s and has lived in Bournemouth since
1978, has links with The Beatles that go back to their very earliest days. With
his band The Seniors, Howie was at the same audition in 1960 when John, Paul
and George first performed as the Silver Beatles. The Seniors were the first
Liverpool band to go to Hamburg, paving the way for The Beatles.
- The first
American TV audiences saw of The Beatles was not the Ed Sullivan Show as is widely believed, but film from the band’s
appearance at the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth two months before.
- George
Harrison’s first Beatles song, Don’t
Bother Me was written while staying in Bournemouth.
- John
Lennon bought his Aunt Mimi a home just outside Bournemouth and until he left
the UK in 1971 was a regular visitor to the area.
- The story
told in The Ballad of John and
Yoko began while John was travelling to Mimi’s house before he ended
up “standing in the dock at Southampton”
- Launched
in August 1963, Beatles
Monthly conducted its first extensive interviews and photo shoots with
the band in Bournemouth, forging a relationship that resulted in the magazine
being published for almost 30 years.
With many previously
unpublished and rare photographs of The Beatles taken in Bournemouth, photos
licensed from Beatles Monthly and
private images of Mimi at home, the story is told using first-hand accounts
from the people who were there – the fans, reporters, photographers, venue
staff and musicians.
Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Beatles & Bournemouth is published on 22 September 2011
by Natula Publications, ISBN 9781897887899.
Pre-publication
orders are being taken now at www.beatlesandbournemouth.com
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