Fundraising

 July 15. 2010 

Ringo and Barb at the Hard Rock

 June 20, 1990 

Release Benefit Concert

 March 18, 1973 (actually, since it happened shortly after midnight -- it was March 19)

The first time Paul performed in London after The Beatles was at the Hard Rock Café for about 500 people.   These folks paid five pounds and got to see Wings perform, plus they had a meal and ice cream for dessert. 

Hard Rocking with Carl

 June 19, 1992

Hard Rockin' Wings

 

Hard Rockin' Tonight

Lunch date

This is Paul and Ringo having lunch at one of the Hard Rock Cafe's.   Does anyone know any more about this photo?  I scanned it from the book "Treasures of the Hard Rock Cafe." 

Back from the trip

Here I am posing with John Lennon's suit and TWA bag that was on display at the New York Hard Rock Cafe.


Hello Beatle fans from around the world! I am back from my holiday to Philadelphia and New York City. I had a fab time and will have a blog post soon that will highlight the Beatles tour that I went to in New York. I have spent the day trying to keep up with the Beatles news that I missed while I was away. I am a little disappointed that it once again looks like I will not be able to see Paul in concert. He will be in Chicago (6 hours away from me) on July 31. I am going up there for the Fest for Beatle fans on August 5. So close but yet....still won't work out.







Anyhow...wanted to say that I did miss working on the blog while I was gone, and I was anxious to get back to it. So away we go!

More photos of Ringo and Alex

I found some more photos of Ringo and Alex, the young fan that was able to meet Ringo as his wish through the Make a Wish Foundation.

If this shirt could talk....

There are two main periods of John Lennon's life that fascinate me. The first is 1966 and the second is the "Lost Weekend" era. I have read so many books that cover the Lost Weekend, that I feel like I almost have been there myself. And while I am talking about John and the Lost Weekend, let me straighten something out for you all. I often read that John Lennon stuck a tampon on his head at the Troubadour. It is impossible for someone to stick a tampon to his or her head unless they had some tape or something sticky to stick it on with. I am almost 100% sure that John never stuck a tampon to his head. Now what he most likely stuck to his head is a maxi pad. It is sticky on one side. The popular 1970's brand name for maxi pads was "Kotex." So John is quoted as saying that he stuck a Kotex on his head at the Troubadour club. Now this event did NOT happen the same night he heckled the Smother's Brothers. It was a separate and different night when the maxi pad was on the head. So no more stories of John with a tampon on his head because it is impossible.

Anyhow....this summer when I was in England we went to the original Hard Rock Cafe. I saw a lot of really neat Beatles and non-Beatles things there. But know what I liked the most? I saw the shirt that John Lennon was wearing the night he got kicked out of the Troubadour club with Harry Nilsson for heckling the Smothers Brothers on stage. When John wore the shirt, he left it open like a jacket. He had a black shirt underneath it and a black scarf around his neck. What I guess I also liked was that it wasn't labeled as "the shirt John wore that infamous night." It was just hanging on the wall labeled "John Lennon." But I knew when he wore it. And to me it is just way awesome!

George at the Hard Rock '92

On June 15, 1992, George Harrison appeared unannounced at a performance at the London Hard Rock Cafe. Carl Perkins was putting on a concert there that night and I guess George decided to join him on stage. They performed, "Honey Don't," "Blue Suede Shoes" and one of my favorite numbers, "Everybody's trying to be my baby." Apparently there just happened to be some lucky Beatles fan in the audience that night that were able to snap a few photos of this once in a lifetime performance.