1960
- as The Beatals / Silver Beats /
Silver Beetles / Silver Beatles /
(and by the middle of august) The Beatles
Personel John Lennon - guitar, vocals (march 1957-april 1970) Paul McCartney - guitar, vocals (october 1957 - 1970) George Harrison - lead guitar, vocals (march 1958 - 1970) Stuart Sutchcliff - bass (january 1960 - november 1960) Tommy Moore - drums (may 1960 - june 1960) Norman Chapman - drums (july 1960) Pete Best- drums, vocals (august 1960 - august 1962) Chas Newby - bass (17 december 1960 - 31 december 1960) |
Songs played in concerts 1960 Ainīt she sweet / Ainīt that a shame / All over again / All shook up / Almost grown / Apache / Baby blue / Baby I donīt care / Baby letīs play house / Bad boy / Be-bop-a-lula / Begin the beguine / Better luck next time / Blue moon of Kentucky / Blue suede shoes / Bony Moronie / Bopping the blues / Bony Moronie / Canīt believe you wanna leave / Carol / Cathyīs clown / Catswalk (L/M) / Clarabella / Cīmon everybody / Coquette / Corrine, Corrina / Cracking up / Crying, waiting, hoping / Dance in the streets / Darktown strutterīs ball / Dizzy miss lizzy / Do you want to dance / Donīt be cruel / Donīt forbid me / Donīt let the sun catch you crying / Down the line / Espaņa caņi (Spanish gypsy dance) / Everyday / A Fool for you / Fools like me / Glad all over / Gone, gone, gone / Good golly miss Molly / Good rocking tonight / Great balls of fire / Hallelujah i love her so / Harry lime (Third man theme) / Heartbreak hotel / Heavenly / Hello little girl (L/M) / Hey Ba-ba-re-bop / Hey, good looking / Honey hush / High school confidential / Home / The Honeymoon song / Hound dog / A House with love in it / How high the moon / Hully gully / I forgot to remember to forget / I got a woman / I know / I remember / I will always be in love with you / I wonder if I care as much / Iīll follow the sun / Iīll never let you go / Iīm gonna be a wheel someday / Iīm gonna sit right down and cry / Iīm in love again / Itīll be me / Itīs a long way to Tipperary / Itīs now or never / Itīs so easy / Jailhouse rock / Jambalaya / Johnny B. Goode / Just because / Lawdy miss clawdy / Lazy river / Lend me your comb / Like dreamers do / Little Queenie / Long tall Sally / Love me tender (Stuart-vocal) / Love of my life / Love of the loved / Loving you / Lucille / Matchbox / Maybe baby / Maybellene / Mean woman blues / Memphis Tennessee / Midnight shift / Midnight special / Miss Ann / Money / Moonglow and the theme from Picnic / Movinīand groovinī / Nothing shaking / The One after 909 (L/M) / Ooh! My soul / Over the rainbow / Party / Peaches and cream / Peggy Sue / Railroad Bill / Raining in my heart / Ramrod / Raunchy / Ready Teddy / Red sails in the sunset / Reeling and rocking / Rip it up / Rock and roll music / Roll over Beethoven / San Francisco bay blues / Say mama / Searchinī / Send me some loving / September song / Shaking all over / Shimmy shimmy / Short fat Fanny / Shout / Slow down / Stay / Sticks and stones / Summertime / Sure to fall / Sweet little sixteen / Teenage heaven / Tennessee / Tequila / Thatīll be the day / Thatīs all right, mama / Thatīs when your heartaches begin / Think it over / Thirty days / Three cool cats / Three steps to heaven / Three-thirty blues / Time will bring you everything / To know her is to love her / Tonight is so right for love / Too much monkey business / True love / Tutti frutti / Twenty flight rock / Vacation time / Walk donīt run / The Wayward wind / Wedding bells / Weep no more my baby / Well...Baby please donīt go / Whatīd i say / When Iīm sixty-four / Whole lotta shaking going on / Wild cat / Words of love / The World is waiting for the sunrise / Yakety yak / You donīt understand me / You were meant for me / You win again / Youngblood / Your true love |
(% - two shows / # - first visit)
John & Paul performing in a bar as "The Nerk Twins" during the Easter holidays. The bar was owned by Paulīs cousin Bett Robbins in Berkshire, south of England.
Sat 23 April 1960 | the Fox and hounds # | Caversham | UK |
Sun 24 April 1960 | the Fox and hounds | Caversham |
As Silver Beats
Sat 14 May 1960 | Lathom hall # | Liverpool |
Silver Beetles tour in Scotland backing Johnny Gentle
Fri 20 May 1960 | Town hall # | Allon | (Scotland) |
Sat 21 May 1960 | Northern meeting ballroom # | Inverness | |
Mon 23 May 1960 | Dalrymple hall # | Fraserburgh | |
Wed 25 May 1960 | S:t Thomas hall # | Keith | |
Thu 26 May 1960 | Town hall # | Forres | |
Fri 27 May 1960 | Regal ballroom # | Naira | |
Sat 28 May 1960 | Rescue hall # | Peterhead |
Alan Williams club (where they played around 10 more mondays in 1960, dates unknown, could be 20/6, 27/6, 4/7, 11/7, 18/7, 25/7, 1/8, 8/8, 15/8, 19/12, 26/12)
Mon 30 May 1960 | Jacaranda coffee club # | Liverpool |
Thu 2 June 1960 | The Institute # | Wirral |
Sat 4 June 1960 | Grosvenor Ballroom # | Liscard, Wallasey |
Tue 6 June 1960 | Grosvenor Ballroom | Liscard, Wallasey |
Thu 9 June 1960 | The Institute | Wirral |
Sat 11 June 1960 | Grosvenor Ballroom | Liscard, Wallasey |
Otherwise drummerless, John asked the audience for help and a teddy-boy, Ronnie (who never had seen a drum-kit before) "played" with the band this night.
Mon 13 June 1960 | Jacaranda coffee club | Liverpool |
Thu 16 June 1960 | The Institute | Wirral |
Sat 18 June 1960 | Grosvenor Ballroom | Liscard, Wallasey |
Paulīs 18th birthday
Thu 23 June 1960 | The Institute | Wirral |
Sat 25 June 1960 | Grosvenor Ballroom | Liscard, Wallasey |
Thu 30 June 1960 | The Institute | Wirral |
Sat 2 July 1960 | Grosvenor Ballroom | Liscard, Wallasey |
Thu 7 July 1960 | The Institute | Wirral |
During one week in July "Silver Beetles" was booked by Alan Williams to back an illegal strip-show at the "New Cabaret Artistes" in the `viceī area of Liverpool.
Sat 9 July 1960 | Grosvenor Ballroom | Liscard, Wallasey |
Sat 16 July 1960 | Grosvenor Ballroom | Liscard, Wallasey |
Sat 23 July 1960 | Grosvenor Ballroom | Liscard, Wallasey |
Sat 30 July 1960 | Grosvenor Ballroom | Liscard, Wallasey |
Further performances were cancelled due to the audiences violence and rowdiness (!)
The First of five trips to Hamburg
Wed 17 August 1960 | Indra club # | Hamburg | West Germany |
Indra club | Hamburg | ||
...every night... | Indra club | Hamburg | |
Indra club | Hamburg | ||
...for 48 nights... | Indra club | Hamburg | |
Indra club | Hamburg | ||
...four hours | Indra club | Hamburg | |
per night in the | Indra club | Hamburg | |
weekdays | Indra club | Hamburg | |
Indra club | Hamburg | ||
and | Indra club | Hamburg | |
Indra club | Hamburg | ||
six and a half hours | Indra club | Hamburg | |
per night in | Indra club | Hamburg | |
weekends | Indra club | Hamburg | |
Indra club | Hamburg | ||
Mon 3 October 1960 | Indra club | Hamburg |
Tue 4 October 1960 | Kaiserkeller # | Hamburg | West Germany |
Kaiserkeller | Hamburg | ||
...58 nights... | Kaiserkeller | Hamburg | |
Kaiserkeller | Hamburg | ||
Wed 30 November 1960 | Kaiserkeller | Hamburg |
Sat 17 December 1960 | Casbah coffe club | Liverpool | UK |
Sat 24 December 1960 | Grosvenor ballroom | Liscard, Wallasey |
Tue 27 December 1960 | Litherland Town hall ballroom | Liverpool |
Sat 31 December 1960 | Casbah coffe club | Liverpool |