The Beatles came to Tenbury Wells on 15 April 1963, playing at Bridge Hotel in the early revs of their rise to being the greatest entertainment phenomenon ever.
Six months after stopping in Tenbury the Beatles were topping the London Palladium; ten months after Tenbury they were headlining Carnegie Hall, and their triumphs extended without pause right through the Sixties. They were huge stars then, and somehow, 60 years on, they’re huge stars still.
Please join the crowds at our Regal Cinema to see Beatles expert Mark Lewisohn guide us through that history and launch our diamond anniversary festival of the Beatles in Tenbury Wells.
Mark Lewisohn – the writer – is the Beatles world authority. His many successful books include Recording Sessions (1988, recently republished) and Tune In (2013), which won the inaugural Penderyn Prize and is the first in a comprehensive three-volume history, The Beatles: All These Years. Mark is presently at work on volume two.
Reviews of Mark Lewisohn’s book Tune In:
‘A triumph. Not only an enthralling account of the Beatles’ origins, far superior to anything that has gone before, but also an essential piece of social history.’ – The Times
‘Lewisohn’s work stands as a monumental triumph, a challenge to the discipline of biography itself. If only all important subjects had their Lewisohn.’ – Washington Post
Mark Lewisohn – the speaker – has talked Beatles at literary festivals in Edinburgh, Oxford, Bath, Cheltenham and more, and at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Lincoln Center in New York and the Smithsonian in Washington DC. He has twice presented his own theatre show, Hornsey Road in 2019 and Beatles/Evolver:62 last October.
Review of Mark Lewisohn’s 2022 stage show Evolver:62:
‘Lewisohn is an engaging presenter who finds clever ways to illustrate the story. One of the things I like about him is that although he’s gone to enormous lengths to acquire all this information, he never seems proprietorial about it. He likes sharing his treasure, using it to enrich everyone else’s enjoyment of a story that will never be repeated.’ – Richard Williams, thebluemoment.com
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