After their first appearance on The Morecambe And Wise Show, The Beatles performed a concert in the ballroom of the exclusive Grosvenor House hotel in aid of cerebral palsy sufferers.
Not part of their 1963 Autumn Tour, the event was a cabaret-style floor show before an audience dressed in evening wear. The Beatles reportedly didn’t enjoy the experience, particularly when the supposedly respectable crowd rushed the stage at the end of the show, and made sure similar engagements didn’t take place in future.
Their setlist for the evening contained seven songs: ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, ‘From Me To You’, ‘This Boy’, ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’, ‘Till There Was You’, ‘She Loves You’ and ‘Twist And Shout’.
Also on this day...
- 2017: Paul McCartney live: nib Stadium, Perth
- 2009: Paul McCartney live: Color Line Arena, Hamburg
- 1991: George Harrison live: Osaka-jō Hall, Osaka
- 1979: Wings live: Brighton Centre, Brighton
- 1974: US single release: Walking In The Park With Eloise by Paul McCartney
- 1969: George Harrison live: Colston Hall, Bristol with Delaney & Bonnie
- 1969: Mixing: Lady Madonna, Rain, Octopus’s Garden
- 1969: Television: 24 Hours: The World Of John And Yoko – day one
- 1969: John Lennon is interviewed for Man Of The Decade
- 1968: US album release: Wonderwall Music by George Harrison
- 1966: Mixing, editing: Pantomime: Everywhere It’s Christmas
- 1965: George Harrison’s Gretsch guitar is destroyed
- 1964: Ringo Starr’s tonsils are removed
- 1963: Television: The Morecambe And Wise Show
- 1962: The Beatles live: Embassy Cinema, Peterborough
- 1961: The Beatles live: Cavern Club, Liverpool (evening)
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