BrianH
At the Start
They made eight live appearances on TOTP - but they only performed live once. That was in April 1965 when they sang "Ticket To Ride" and "Yes It Is".
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Merlin the Magician
At the Start
BrianH
At the Start
Merlin, I think that the Top Of The Pops record is more likely to be correct than the International Movie Database:
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/Perso...personid-89237/
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/Perso...personid-89237/
Merlin the Magician
At the Start
Brian one can only copy and paste what one finds 
Biography for
The Beatles
Trivia
The most successful pop group of the 1960s, it consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, who replaced original drummer Pete Best
Both Ringo Starr and George Harrison were singled out for praise for their performances in the first Beatles movie, Hard Day's Night, A (1964); manager (and former drama student) Brian Epstein predicted that Starr would turn out to have considerable acting ability. He did indeed begin a second career in movies as the Beatles broke up, while bandmate Harrison first befriended the Monty Python comedy troupe, then became a movie producer after he financed the Pythons' Life of Brian (1979). ( John Lennon and Paul McCartney had briefer movie careers, with Lennon appearing in How I Won the War (1967), and McCartney making Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984).)
After the Beatles stopped giving live performances in 1966, instead of appearing live on TV to promote their latest singles, they made "pop clips" - a forerunner of music videos - and the clips played in their place. (Individual Beatles sometimes popped up on TV to give interviews, but not to perform as a group.)
Their initial 1962 recording contract with Parlophone Records in England (a division of EMI) was for a series of singles, at a minimal royalty rate. After "Please Please Me" became a hit, EMI gave them a full five-year contract for singles and albums, and better royalties. Brian Epstein negotiated a new contract for them in 1967 just before he died; with its basic terms fulfilled by late 1969, Allen Klein was able to renegotiate with EMI, and got the band the highest royalty rate ever paid to a recording artist or group up to that time - a whopping 69¢ per album. ( John Lennon had already effectively quit the Beatles, but agreed to keep mum about it until the deal was complete; Paul McCartney announced his departure a few months later, as his first solo album debuted.)
Their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show actually wasn't the first time the Beatles had been seen on American television. A film clip of them performing in England had run earlier on "Jack Paar Show, The" (1957), but Ed Sullivan gave them first live TV appearance in America.
George Harrison nearly missed their first Ed Sullivan show, because he'd come down with the flu. He spent much of their rehearsal time sick in bed at the hotel, and only made the show after a doctor came to their suite with enough medications to get him through the performance.
Their infamous "butcher cover" for the "Yesterday and Today" album came about from the Beatles' disdain for photo sessions, and also the way Capitol Records in America tended to "butcher" their British LPs in repackaging. (Capitol's habit was to skim tracks off two or three albums, add a stereo mix of their newest single, and issue the results as their "latest album", ignoring the work the Beatles and producer George Martin had put into crafting the earlier ones.) Protests from fans, parents, and radio DJs over the cover forced Capitol to change the photo - and soon after, they changed their issuing policy.
Biography for
The Beatles
Trivia
The most successful pop group of the 1960s, it consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, who replaced original drummer Pete Best
Both Ringo Starr and George Harrison were singled out for praise for their performances in the first Beatles movie, Hard Day's Night, A (1964); manager (and former drama student) Brian Epstein predicted that Starr would turn out to have considerable acting ability. He did indeed begin a second career in movies as the Beatles broke up, while bandmate Harrison first befriended the Monty Python comedy troupe, then became a movie producer after he financed the Pythons' Life of Brian (1979). ( John Lennon and Paul McCartney had briefer movie careers, with Lennon appearing in How I Won the War (1967), and McCartney making Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984).)
After the Beatles stopped giving live performances in 1966, instead of appearing live on TV to promote their latest singles, they made "pop clips" - a forerunner of music videos - and the clips played in their place. (Individual Beatles sometimes popped up on TV to give interviews, but not to perform as a group.)
Their initial 1962 recording contract with Parlophone Records in England (a division of EMI) was for a series of singles, at a minimal royalty rate. After "Please Please Me" became a hit, EMI gave them a full five-year contract for singles and albums, and better royalties. Brian Epstein negotiated a new contract for them in 1967 just before he died; with its basic terms fulfilled by late 1969, Allen Klein was able to renegotiate with EMI, and got the band the highest royalty rate ever paid to a recording artist or group up to that time - a whopping 69¢ per album. ( John Lennon had already effectively quit the Beatles, but agreed to keep mum about it until the deal was complete; Paul McCartney announced his departure a few months later, as his first solo album debuted.)
Their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show actually wasn't the first time the Beatles had been seen on American television. A film clip of them performing in England had run earlier on "Jack Paar Show, The" (1957), but Ed Sullivan gave them first live TV appearance in America.
George Harrison nearly missed their first Ed Sullivan show, because he'd come down with the flu. He spent much of their rehearsal time sick in bed at the hotel, and only made the show after a doctor came to their suite with enough medications to get him through the performance.
Their infamous "butcher cover" for the "Yesterday and Today" album came about from the Beatles' disdain for photo sessions, and also the way Capitol Records in America tended to "butcher" their British LPs in repackaging. (Capitol's habit was to skim tracks off two or three albums, add a stereo mix of their newest single, and issue the results as their "latest album", ignoring the work the Beatles and producer George Martin had put into crafting the earlier ones.) Protests from fans, parents, and radio DJs over the cover forced Capitol to change the photo - and soon after, they changed their issuing policy.
BrianH
At the Start
Well, preferably if it's accurate. I'm baffled as to what that has to do with their eight TOTP appearances, but anyway I think that we'd need to be careful about a site that says:
1957 was the year in which John Lennon first met Paul McCartney at a garden fête in Liverpool!
simmo
Senior Jockey
Ok, the answers are.....
What was their longest stretch of no. 1 's - (11)
Name one of the bands that supported them on their final gig at candlestick park - (the cyrkle, the remains)
Which merseybeat hit the does george quote from in its all too much - (sorrow by the merseys - "with your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue")
What was the pseudonym used by the beatles enginneer when he made his own record - (hurricane smith)
And the title of his hit single - (oh babe, what would you say)
What cream song does george play rhythm guitar on - (badge)
And how did it get its name - (george misread bridge as badge when looking at erics upside down notes)
On what beatle song does john play the clavioline - (baby you're a rich man)
Who played sgt pepper live 3 days after its release with the beatles in the audience - (hendrix)
What song did paul write for badfingers first hit on the apple label - (come and get it)
Who played drums on the single version of Love Me Do - Alan White (Ringo plays on the album version)
And I have to come clean and say that I got them from someone else, and that I would only have been able to answer 7 of them myself.
What was their longest stretch of no. 1 's - (11)
Name one of the bands that supported them on their final gig at candlestick park - (the cyrkle, the remains)
Which merseybeat hit the does george quote from in its all too much - (sorrow by the merseys - "with your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue")
What was the pseudonym used by the beatles enginneer when he made his own record - (hurricane smith)
And the title of his hit single - (oh babe, what would you say)
What cream song does george play rhythm guitar on - (badge)
And how did it get its name - (george misread bridge as badge when looking at erics upside down notes)
On what beatle song does john play the clavioline - (baby you're a rich man)
Who played sgt pepper live 3 days after its release with the beatles in the audience - (hendrix)
What song did paul write for badfingers first hit on the apple label - (come and get it)
Who played drums on the single version of Love Me Do - Alan White (Ringo plays on the album version)
And I have to come clean and say that I got them from someone else, and that I would only have been able to answer 7 of them myself.
BrianH
At the Start
What about the answers to the first two?
Also, tell whoever you got them from that as well as The Cyrkle and The Remains at Candlestick Park, the Beatles had the Ronettes as a support group. And if he disagrees and is a betting person...
Also, tell whoever you got them from that as well as The Cyrkle and The Remains at Candlestick Park, the Beatles had the Ronettes as a support group. And if he disagrees and is a betting person...
simmo
Senior Jockey
Mick Jagger sang on both of them.
By placing the microphone in a milk bottle before recording. (and then hiding the milk bottle when Malcolm Sargeant looked in to the studio).