Alright -- I am excited to share these, even though they are terrible quality. I work pretty hard to keep up with this site. Every year I focus on a few years more than the others -- for 2025, the focus years are 1960, 1965, 1970 & 1975
It isn't easy to find new photos and stories for 1965 after all of these years, so I start early. I have been looking for some new information about the UK Winter 1965 tour because we have such little information about it. I was digging into British newspaper articles and found something that I didn't know existed: photographs of the Beatles performing on December 9, 1965, in Birmingham. I stumbled upon these in the Birmingham Weekly Mercury newspaper's December 12, 1965 issue.
I was so excited to share these photos that I didn't want to wait until December (but I will wait to share the backstage images). Now I realize that these are TERRIBLE quality. They are so dark and you can barely make out the Beatles in some of them. But these prove that there are photos from this concert out there and maybe someone owns actual copies of these photos or has the actual newspaper in a scrapbook. Who knows?
Thanks!!
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