The Beatles during rehearsals for the 1963
Royal Variety Performance, at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London. Dec.
11/2000: The band released the album entitled 1, the first collection
of greatest hits they have released and comes three decades after the band
split. Oct. 11//2001: Music fans celebrated the 40th anniversary of Beatlemania
with a night of Merseybeat sounds. Sam Leach, the promoter who organised
Beatles gigs at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, claims the concerts were
the band's first experience of the mass hysteria which came to mark their
every public appearance. The first Tower Ballroom gig, which took place
on Nov. 10, 1961, attracted a crowd of 4,100 - one of the largest-ever
audiences for a British Beatles concert.
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The Beatles rehearse for the Royal Variety
Performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre, November 4,1963. The Queen
Mother attended.
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