Contra Band Music

After the chaos in Cleveland, The Beatles were looking forward to visiting New Orleans, home of Fats Domino and Lloyd Price. In their room a...

With the North American tour just five days from completion, Beatlemania finally burst at the seams in Cleveland on September 15th, 1964. Th...

September 13th, 1964 found The Beatles crossing two more concerts off their list, at Baltimore's Civic Center. Between the shows, they s...

With assistance from George's sister Louise, WBZ-AM radio produced a documentary covering The Beatles' September 12th visit to Bost...

After their Montréal concerts , The Beatles were due to fly south to Jacksonville, Florida for two days of rest before their September 11th ...

From Chicago, The Beatles flew to Detroit for two shows on September 6th. That night, it was on to Toronto, where they landed at Malton Air...

From Milwaukee, it was on to Chicago for a September 5th performance at the International Amphitheatre. Their arrival at Midway Airport was...

" On September 4, 1964, The Beatles gave a concert in Milwaukee, Stop Number 12 on their first American tour which visited 25 cities, f...

The Beatles landed at Weir Cook Airport in Indianapolis around 1am on September 3rd, flying in from Philadelphia, and checked in to the Spee...

September 2nd, 1964 saw The Beatles visit Philadelphia for a concert at the Convention Hall. Prior to the show, the usual press conference w...

From August 24th through 27th, 1964, the Democratic National Convention was held at the Atlantic City Convention Center. Lyndon Johnson was ...

WFUN-AM newsman Larry Kane spent a lot of time with The Beatles during their August 28th-29th visit to New York. On the first evening, he sp...

New York City was the site of The Beatles' initial American triumph in February, 1964. Their return in August was heralded by incessant ...

Around noon on August 27th, The Beatles boarded a flight from Denver to Cincinnati, Ohio. KRLA's Dave Hull and Jim Steck were forced to ...

August 25th, 1964 was a bona fide day off for The Beatles. After sleeping in late and lazing by the pool, most of the tour party accepted th...

After five straight days of travel and concerts, The Beatles' tour machine paused on August 24th and 25th so that the boys could enjoy a...

Of all the concerts on the summer 1964 tour, The Beatles were most anxious about their August 23rd performance at the Hollywood Bowl. Not on...

August 22nd, 1964 saw the first Beatles concert in Canada, as they played one show at Vancouver's Empire Stadium that evening. Local sta...

City #2 on the tour was Las Vegas, where The Beatles had to fight their way through fans as they checked in to the Sahara Hotel at 2:30 in t...

The tour kicked off August 19th with a concert at the Cow Palace in Daly City, just south of San Francisco. KCRA-TV filmed some of the show ...

From Winnipeg, The Beatles and company flew south to Los Angeles, landing around 4pm on August 18th. They would play the Hollywood Bowl a we...

The Beatles wrapped up July, 1964 with a visit to Stockholm , Sweden, and began August with a couple of concerts in Bournemouth and Scarboro...

July, 1964 saw The Beatles carrying out sporadic media appearances: they taped sessions for BBC Radio's Top Gear on the 14th and From U...

With the London and Liverpool premieres successfully completed, A Hard Day's Night opened in British cinemas throughout the last half o...

One day in early July, 1964 (most likely the 11th), John Lennon left his bandmates in the lurch, requiring Paul, George, and Ringo to fulfil...

The Beatles had less than a week to rest up from their month-long World Tour before heading back to work, beginning July 6th, 1964 with the ...

Four weary Beatles gathered at Sydney's Mascot Airport on July 1st, 1964, exhausted from a month of touring the Far East and Australasia...

The Beatles' New Zealand tour continued with stops in Auckland and Dunedin , wrapping up in Christchurch on June 27th, 1964. The followi...

The Beatles made their first and only group visit to New Zealand on June 21st, 1964. That morning, they caught a flight from Sydney, Austral...

Well, I've exhausted the supply of vinyl covered in the first two volumes of Beatlegmania . I have hundreds of discs left to post, inclu...

The Beatles' Melbourne visit wrapped up with two concerts on June 17th, 1964, the last of which was videotaped for broadcast on local C...

Trade Mark Of Quality, 1985 Exciting cover, huh? This was originally a single-disc follow-up to File Under: Beatles ; then both discs were p...

From June 15th - 17th, 1964, The Beatles (with Ringo reinstated on drums) performed two shows each night at Melbourne's Festival Hall. E...

Rock Solid Records, 1987 An odd hybrid from TMOQ. Side 1 is a copy of Hahst Az Sön 's first side. Side 2 has a lengthy session for ...

By June 13th, 1964, Ringo finally got the all-clear to leave the hospital and travel to Australia to rejoin his bandmates. BBC News reporter...

Control Records, 1986 Both 1965 Houston concerts, packaged in a simulated Capitol (or "Control") Records deluxe cover. Side 1: - T...

Following the less-than-fulfilling Hong Kong concerts, The Beatles gathered at Kaitak Airport on the afternoon of June 10th, 1964. Bob Roger...

Wizardo, 1975 A pair of incomplete concert recordings, borrowed from earlier CBM albums. Side 1: - I Saw Her Standing There - You Can't ...

After two concerts in Blokker on June 6th, 1964, John, Paul, George, and Jimmy flew back to London Airport the next morning. Joining them on...

Odeon, 1986 EMI's unreleased Sessions album first appeared in Europe on a Yellow Dog bootleg late in 1985. Early the next year, NEMS (...