7 February 1963

US Single release:

Please Please Me/Ask Me Why
Vee-Jay VJ 498

The Beatles' first American record release; unfortunately, their name was misspelled "BEATTLES" on initial pressings.

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White label promo


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Concert:

Regal Cinema, Kirkgate, Wakefield, Yorkshire

The fourth date of the Helen Shapiro package tour.

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Paul signed for all four Beatles backstage; auctioned at Christies, 10 July 2008


"By that time "those of us who knew" had heard about the Helen Shapiro Tour... and desperately wanted tickets. Luckily I had a friend (Linda) whose Mum worked in the Box Office at the cinema where they were appearing, and so it came to pass that on the evening of February the 7th 1963 me, Neil (my best friend... now in Australia) were in the Regal Cinema Wakefield waiting for them to come on stage. I wish that I could say that I remember the event with startling clarity but I can't. I know they closed the first half and sang Please Please Me... but the impact was nothing like the 10,000 volts I'd received a few months before."




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