The Beatles Chronology - 1962

• January 1962
o 01: The Beatles audition for Decca Records
o 03: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool lunchtime and evening
o 05: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 06: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 07: Performance: Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool
o 09: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 10: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 11: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 12: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool and Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wirral
o 13: Performance: Hambleton Hall, Huyton, Liverpool
o 14: Performance: Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool
o 15: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 17: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, lunchtime and evening
o 19: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, and Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wirral
o 20: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 21: Performance: Casbah Coffee Club
o 22: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool and Kingsway Club, Southport, Lancashire
o 24: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool lunchtime and evening. The Beatles sign a second amended contract at NEMS
o 26: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool lunchtime and evening, and Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wirral
o 27: Performance: Aintree Institute
o 28: Performance: Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool
o 29: Performance: Kingsway Club, Southport, Lancashire
o 30: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 31: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
• February 1962
o 01: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool and The Beatles’ first appearance under Brian’s management at Thistle Cafe, West Kirby, Wirral
o 02: Performance: Oasis Club, Manchester
o 03: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 04: Performance: Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool
o 05: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool and Kingsway Club, Southport, Lancashire
o 07: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, lunchtime and evening
o 09: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, lunchtime and evening, and Technical College Hall, Birkendhead, Wirral
o 10: Performance: St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church Hall, Birkenhead, Wirral. Decca turn The Beatles down
o 11: Performance: Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool
o 12: The Beatles audition for Teenager’s Turn radio show in Manchester
o 13: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 14: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 15: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool and Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wirral
o 16: Performance: Technical College, Birkenhead, Wirral and Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wirral
o 17: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 18: Performance: Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool
o 19: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 20: Performance: Floral Hall, Southport, Lancashire
o 21: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, lunchtime and evening
o 23: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool lunchtime, Tower Ballroom, New Brighton and Technical College, Birkenhead, Wirral
o 24: Performance: YMCA, Birkenhead, Wirral and Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 25: Performance: Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool
o 26: Performance: Kingsway Club, Southport, Lancashire
o 27: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 28: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
• March 1962
o 01: Performance: Cavern Club, and Storyville Jazz Club, Liverpool
o 02: Performance: St. John’s Hall, Bootle, Liverpool and Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wirral
o 03: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 04: Performance: Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool
o 05: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool and Kingsway Club, Southport, Lancashire
o 06: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 07: The Beatles record for Teenager’s Turn in Manchester
o 08: Performance: Storyville Jazz Club, Liverpool
o 09: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool lunchtime and evening
o 10: Performance: St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church Hall, Birkenhead, Wirral
o 13: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 14: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 15: Performance: Cavern Club, and Storyville Jazz Club, Liverpool
o 16: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 17: Performance: Knotty Ash Village Hall, Liverpool
o 18: Performance: Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool
o 19: Performance: Kingsway Club, Southport, Lancashire
o 20: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 21: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 22: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 23: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, lunchtime and evening
o 24: Heswall Jazz Club, Barnston, Wirral
o 25: Performance: Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool
o 26: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 28: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, lunchtime and evening
o 29: Performance: Odd Spot Club, Liverpool
o 30: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, lunchtime and evening
o 31: Performance: Subscription Rooms, Stroud, Gloucester
• April 1962
o 01: Performance: Casbah Coffee Club
o 02: Performance: Cavern Club, and Pavillion Theatre, Liverpool
o 04: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, lunchtime and evening
o 05: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 06: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool and Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wirral
o 07: Performance: Casbah Coffee Club and Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 08: Performance: Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool
o 10: Stuart Sutcliffe dies
o 11: John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Pete Best fly to Hamburg
o 12: George Harrison, Brian Epstein and Millie Sutcliffe fly to Hamburg
o 13: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 14: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 15: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 16: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 17: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 18: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 19: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 20: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 21: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 22: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 23: Bert Kaempfert records The Beatles with Tony Sheridan
o 23: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 24: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 25: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 26: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 27: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 28: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 29: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 30: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
• May 1962
o 01: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 02: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 03: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 04: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 05: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 06: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 07: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 08: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 09: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg. Brian secures a contract with Parlophone
o 10: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 11: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 12: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 13: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 14: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 15: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 16: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 17: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 18: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 19: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 20: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 21: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 22: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 23: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 24: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 25: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 26: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 27: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 28: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 29: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 30: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 31: Performance: Star-Club, Hamburg
• June 1962
o 02: The Beatles fly home to Liverpool via London
o 03: The Beatles rehearse at The Cavern
o 04: The Beatles rehearse at The Cavern
o 05: The Beatles travel to London
o 06: The Beatles' first recording session with George Martin
o 07: The Beatles return to Liverpool
o 09: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 11: The Beatles record at the Playhouse Theatre, Manchester, for Teenager’s Turn.
o 12: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, lunchtime and evening
o 13: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, lunchtime and evening
o 15: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, lunchtime and evening
o 16: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 19: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, lunchtime and evening
o 20: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, lunchtime and evening
o 21: Performance: Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wirral
o 22: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, lunchtime and evening
o 23: Performance: Memorial Hall, Northwich, Cheshire
o 24: The Beatles play at the last night of The Casbah Coffee Club
o 25: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool and Plaza Ballroom, St Helens
o 27: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, lunchtime and evening
o 28: Performance: Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead, Wirral
o 29: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool and Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wirral
o 30: Performance: Heswall Jazz Club, Barnston, Wirral
• July 1962
o 01: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 02: Performance: Plaza Ballroom, St Helens
o 03: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 04: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 05: Performance: Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead, Wirral
o 06: Performance: MV Royal Iris River Mersey
o 07: Performance: Hulme Hall, Bolton Road Port Sunlight, Birkenhead, Cheshire
o 08 :Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 09: Performance: Plaza Ballroom, St Helens
o 10: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 11: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 12: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead.
o 13: Performance: Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey
o 14: Performance: Regent Dansette, High Street, Rhyl, Flintshire
o 15: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 16: Performance: Plaza Ballroom, St Helens
o 17: Performance: McIlroys Ballroom, Havelock Square, Swindon, Wiltshire
o 18: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 19: Performance: Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead
o 20: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Bell Hall, Orford Lane, Warrington, Lancashire
o 21: Performance: Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey
o 22: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 23: Performance: Kingsway Club, Southport
o 24: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 25: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Cavern Club, Liverpool, Cabaret Club, Duke Street Liverpool
o 26: Performance: Cambridge Hall, Lord Street, Southport, Lancashire
o 27: Performance: Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey
o 28: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead
o 30: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, St John’s Hall , Bootle
• August 1962
o o 01: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Cavern Club , Liverpool
o 03: Performance: Grafton Rooms, West Derby Road, Liverpool
o 04: Performance: Victoria Hall, Village Road, Higher Bebington, Wirral, Cheshire
o 05: Performance: Cavern Club , Liverpool
o 07: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Cavern Club. Liverpool
o 08: Performance: Co-Op Ballroom, St Sepulchre Gate, Doncaster, Yorks
o 09: Performance : Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 10: Performance: MV Royal Iris, River Mersey
o 11: Performance: Old Spot Club, Liverpool
o 12: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 13: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Majestic Ballroom, High Street, Crewe, Cheshire
o 15: Performance: Cavern Club , Liverpool, Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 16: Pete Best is sacked from The Beatles
o 16: Performance: Riverpark Ballroom, Union Street/Love Street. Chester, Cheshire
o 17: Performance: Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead, Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey
o 18: Performance: Hulme Hall. Ringo's first official show with The Beatles
o 19: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 20: Performance: Majestic Ballroom, Crewe
o 22: Granada TV films The Beatles at The Cavern
o 22: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 23: Performance: Riverpark Ballroom, Chester
o 23: John Lennon marries Cynthia Powell
o 24: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead
o 25: Performance: Movie Hall Ballroom, Esplanade, Fleetwood, Lancs
o 26: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 28: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 29: Performance: Floral Hall Pavilion, Promenade, Morecambe, Lancs
o 30: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Riverpark Ballroom, Chester
o 31: Performance : Town hall, Town Hall Chambers, Church Road, Lydney, Gloucestershire.
• September 1962
o 01: Performance: Subscriptions Rooms, Stroud
o 02 :Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 03: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Queens Hall, Victoria Road, Widnes, Lancashire
o 04: Recording: The Beatles at Abbey Road
o 05: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 06: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Rialto Ballrooms, Upper Parliament Street/Stanhope Street, Toxteth, Liverpool
o 07: Performance: Newton Dancing School, Village Hall, Thingwall Road, Irby, Heswall, Wirral , Cheshire
o 08: Performance: YMCA, Whitehouse Lane, Birkenhead, Cheshire, Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead
o 09: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 10: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Queen’s Hall,Widnes
o 11: Recording: The Beatles record with Andy White on drums
o 14: Performance: Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey
o 15: Performance: (Victory) Memorial Hall, Northwich
o 16: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 17: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Queens Hall, Widnes
o 19: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 20: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 21: Performance: Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey
o 22:Performance: Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead
o 23: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 25: Performance: Heswall Jazz Club, Burnston Women’s Institute, Heswall, Wirral
o 26: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 28: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, MV Royal Iris, River Mersey
o 29: Performance: Oasis Club, Manchester
o 30: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
• October 1962
o o 02: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 03: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 04: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 05: UK single release: “Love Me Do”
o 06: Performance: Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight, Birkenhead
o 07: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 08: Recording:The Friday Spectacular on Radio Luxembourg at EMI House,Manchester Square, London
o 10: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 11: Performance: Rialto Ballroom, Liverpool
o 12: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Tower Ballroom, New Brighton,Wallasey
o 12: Broadcasting: The Friday Spectacular on Radio Luxembourg
o 13: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 15: Performance: Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead
o 16: Performance: La Scala Ballroom, High Street, Runcorn, Cheshire
o 17:Performance:Cavern Club, Liverpool, Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 17: Recording and Broadcasting: People and Places –Studio four, Granada TV Centre, Quay Street, Manchester, Lancashire
o 19: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 20: Performance: Majestic Ballroom, Witham, Hull, Yorkshire
o 21: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 22: Performance: Queens Hall, Widnes
o 25: Recording: Here we Go at Playhouse Theatre, Manchester
o 26: Broadcasting: Here we Go Manchester
o 26: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Public Hall, Lune Street, Preston, Lancashire
o 27: The Beatle interview with Monty Lister for Clatterbridge Radio
o 27: Performance: Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight, Birkenhead
o 28: Performance: Empire Theatre, Liverpool
o 29: Recording: People and Places at Studio Four, Granada TV Centre, Manchester
• November 1962
o o 01-14: Performances: Star-Club, Hamburg
o 02: Broadcasting: People and Places Manchester
o 16: Recording: The Friday Spectacular Radio Luxembourg at EMI House, London
o 17: Matrix Hall, Fletchamstead Highway, Coventry, Warwickshire
o 18: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 19: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Smethwick Baths Ballroom, Thimblemill Road, Bearwood, Smethwick , Staffordshire, Adelphi Ballroom, New Street, West Bromwich, Staffordshire
o 20: Performance: Floral Hall, Southport
o 21: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool,Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 22:Performance : Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead
o 23: Performance: St Jame’s Church Hall, Gloucester Terrace, London, Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey
o 23:Broadcasting:The Friday Spectacular on Radio Luxembourg.
o 24: Performance: Royal Lido Ballroom, Central Beach, Prestatyn, Flintshire
o 25: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 26:Recording: “Please Please Me” at Studio two, EMI Studios, London
o 27: Radio Session: The Talent Spot at BBC Paris Studio, Regents Street, London.
o 28: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, 527 Club, Lewis’, Ranleigh Street , Liverpool
o 29: Performance: Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead
o 30: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Town Hall, Market Street, Earlestown, Newton-le-willows, Lancashire
• December 1962
o 01: Performance : (Victory) Memorial Hall, Northwich, Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey
o 02:Performance: Embassy Cinema, Peterborough
o 03: Broadcasting: Discs a Go Go (Live) for Television Wales and West , TWW TV Centre, Bath Road, Bristol, Somerset.
o 04:Broadcasting: Tuesday Rendezvouz for Associated Rediffusion.
o 04: Broadcasting: The Talent Spot on BBC
o 05: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 06:Performance: Club Django, Queens Hotel, Promenade, Southport, Lancashire.
o 07: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool,Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey
o 08: Performance: Oasis Club, Manchester
o 09: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 09: George Martin visits the Cavern Club
o 10: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 11: Performance La Scala Ballroom, Runcorn
o 12: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool, Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 13:Performance: Corn Exchange, St Paul’s Sq, Bedford, Bedfordshire
o 14: Performance: Music Hall, Shrewsbury
o 15: Performance: Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead
o 16: Performance: Cavern Club, Liverpool
o 17: Broadcast: People and Places Studio Four, Granada TV Centre, Manchester
o 18: The Beatles' final trip to Star Club Hamburg
o 19: Performance: Star Club, Hamburg
o 20: Performance: Star Club, Hamburg
o 21: Performance: Star Club, Hamburg
o 22: Performance: Star Club, Hamburg
o 23: Performance: Star Club, Hamburg
o 24: Performance: Star Club, Hamburg
o 25: Performance: Star Club, Hamburg
o 26: Performance: Star Club, Hamburg
o 27: Performance: Star Club, Hamburg
o 28: Performance: Star Club, Hamburg
o 29: Performance: Star Club, Hamburg
o 30 Performance: Star Club, Hamburg
o 31: Performance: Star Club, Hamburg