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 It wasn't the Whiskey a Go Go in LA, but deserves better than this... The story of the Worcester Gaumont cinema and the music legends that appeared there...  It was a sad looking building when I took this picture (above), one cold, damp morning in 2024. I had not ventured around the rear of this imposing structure for the best part of forty years. There was a somewhat strange feeling to be back in the spot which I had visited many times in my youth, as I was trying to catch a glimpse of  various singers and musicians. I had been more used to seeing the area in darkness, filled with excited teenagers, armed with autograph books, and roadies busy ferrying equipment between the stage door and their tour van. The venue had been unused for several years when I visited, with a plethora of weeds and shrubs growing beneath its exterior, the entrance strewn with litter, ivy growing rampant up waste pipes, but with the stage door still visible. The rear entrance to this once famou...

                                              The Beatles in Worcester....shire Given that The Beatles played just about every corner of the UK during their pre-1966 touring career, it was only natural that they would play some counties in Britain more than once. First performing as the 'Quarrymen' and later 'The Silver Beatles', before becoming simply, 'The Beatles', it goes without saying that their hometown of Liverpool was treated to more performances than anywhere else between the late 1950s through to 1963.  I am a first generation Beatles fan. My first encounter with Beatles music was sitting as a passenger in a Morris J2 pickup in the mid-60s, driving up Tolladine Road in Worcester, when a Beatles track came on the radio. Unusual for a light commercial vehicle to have a radio fitted in those days, but I remember it distinctly, and the grey colour of the Morris ...