The Beatles star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame can be found on 7051 Hollywood Boulevard on the northwest corner of Hollywood and Sycamore.

Keith Moon of the Who met the Beatles at a bar. He turned to Paul and said, “Do you mind if I join you?” 

Paul said, “Pull up a chair.”

“No,” I mean do you mind if I join you.”

Ringo then replied, “We’ve already got a drummer, thanks.”

Cilla Black said that after Brian Epstein died the Beatles went to a séance to try to contact him in the other world. “They wanted me to sit in with them, but I didn’t. I mean, if he had shown up, I wouldn’t have known what to say and anyway, it would only have made his death worse.”

The Beatles sent a telegram to comedian Dora Bryan congratulating her on the success of ‘All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle.’ It read: “All we want for Beatmus is a Crystal.”

Journalist Jack Bentley interviewed Ringo Starr backstage at the Odeon, Hammersmith in December 1964 during their Beatles Christmas Show. He said that fans were clamouring for a Ringo solo disc and wondered if there were any plans for one. Ringo said, “If Brian Epstein decided that our next disc should have featured me, he would have arranged it.” Paul broke in, “How can Ringo make a hit disc if John and I don’t write it? And we’re not mad enough to do that!” “You’re right” said John.

When he was 13, Phil Collins had a non-speaking part in ‘A Hard Days Night.’

When the Beatles appeared in Spain in August 1963 they had casks of sherry dedicated to them by the Duke of Primo de Rivera, Lord Mayor of the ancient sherry city of Jerez de la Frontera. Due to their hectic schedule they couldn’t travel to Jerez, so the casks were sent several hundred miles to Madrid where the Beatles signed them in their hotel.

The casks were then returned and given a place of honour in one of Jerez’s bodegas. Other casks have in the past been dedicated to Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington, Sir Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother. The Duke commented, “We decided to pay tribute to the Beatles this way because of the pleasure they have brought to millions. One day we hope they will come to Jerez and let us play our guitars for them.” 

Incidentally, each one of the signed casks holds almost 500 pints!

The Daily Mirror reported that when the Beatles appeared at the Cinema Cyrano, Rue Rameau, Palais de Versailles, they were booed by a hostile French audience on their first night. Don Short, the Mirror reporter of the event was to say, “It was the group before them that was booed, but when I told that to the news desk, they didn’t think it was much of a story, so they ran what they wanted to.”

The official press release that Apple PR Derek Taylor released on the break-up of the Beatles read: “Spring is here and Leeds play Cheshire tomorrow and Ringo and John and George and Paul are alive and well and living in hope. The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops, that’ll be the time to worry. Not before.”

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