Ed Sullivan paid only an average of $3300 per performance in 1963, about half of the going rate for a top act.

In March of '63, The Beatles performed 4 times without John who had a cold and laryngitis.

At Linda's Memorial services in London and in New York, Paul had guests greeted by a lone bagpiper playing Mull of Kintyre.  It was one of Linda's favorites, expressing her great love for the countryside of Scotland.

The Beatles went to see the Rolling Stones play for the first time at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond-Upon-Thames. They became great friends.

Paul met Jane Asher, his one-time fiance on Thur., Ap. 18, 1963 after the band had just played "From Me to You". Jane was there as a model and posed as though she were screaming at the group during this BBC broadcast from the Royal Albert Hall in London.

When John and Paul first met, John was impressed by the fact that Paul could tune a guitar himself. John and his band had been paying someone to do that. He also was impressed that Paul knew the words to Be-Bop-A-Lula and Twenty Flight Rock. John got Paul to write down all the words that day for him.

John, Paul, and George, using the name Johnny and the Moondogs entered a singing contest but had to leave before the winner was announced because they didn't have the money to stay overnight, and they had to catch the last train back to Liverpool.

George Harrison's part time job when he was beginning to play music with John and Paul was delivering meat for the local butcher.

The first publicity photos of The Beatles were made by Dezo Hoffman in response to several fans who wrote him and begged him to photograph them because Liverpool groups never got any attention in the newspaper.

In the famous first set of publicity photos, a pile of instruments is between the camera and The Beatles to help camouflage George's black eye. He received it when he was attacked by Pete Best's fans. They were upset because Pete had been replaced by Ringo.

Beatle birthdays: Paul June 18, 1942 / Ringo July 7, 1940 / George Feb. 25 / John Oct. 9, 1940.

John and his son Sean share the same birthday.

John was taught to play the guitar by his mother, Julia, who played the banjo. Consequently he at first played the guitar using the banjo fingering. It was one of the first things Paul said he noticed about him when they met at a c hurch social.

John and Paul were introduced by their mutual friend, Ivan Vaughn whose wife, Janet, taught French at a London school. It was Janet who suggeseted the french words Paul uses in the song, Michelle.

When Ringo joined the group, replacing Pete Best, he had a gray streak in his hair, which Brian Epstein had him dye.

Paul wrote the song, When I'm 64 when he was 15 years old, but he waited until his Dad was 64 to record it in his honor.

Even afater Ringo achieved fame, Ringo's parents lived in the Dingle, a very poor section of Liverpool because they said they liked their neighbors so much.

When George married Patti Boyd, a successful model, he insisted that she quit work because people might use her to have power over him.

Grapes was the popular watering hole for the Beatles and their peers in Liverpool. Alcohol could not be served in the Cavern club where they frequently performed.

While still in the Beatles, John Lennon sang with the Dirty Mac band for the film, The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus.

The mailing address for Paul McCartney is MPL Communications Ltd./1 Soho Square/London/W1V 6BQ/England.  The attendants at the desk told me that they get 3-4 mailbags of fan mail a day for Sir Paul.

George Harrison's addresses are Friar Park Road/Henley-on-Thames/Oxfordshire/RG9 4NR/England and Handmade Films Ltd./26 Cadogan Square/London/SW 1/England

Ringo Starr's addresses are 2 Glynde Mews/London/SW3 1SB/England and "Rocca Bella"/24 Ave. Princess Grace/Monte Carlo/Monaco.

In the movie, Jerry McGuire, Paul McCartney's song, Sing Along Junk, is featured during one of the love scenes.

The Beatles rejected a screenplay written for them after Help! because they would have to portray homosexuals.

John broke up Paul's 21st birthday party at his auntie Gin's by having a fight with Bob Wooler, a local compere.

The only drum solo recorded by Ringo while he was in The Beatles was in the song The End from the album Abbey Road