The Beatles Story Newspaper Book Coverage

Total pages: 161

Date of PaperPagesEvent Covered
24 Jan 1963Page 15“Popland goes British…watch the Beatles, a guitar-based instrumental quartet from Liverpool with a style of their own”
11 Sep 1963Page 3“That Big Beat Wave sweeps new names to the top of the Pop poll”
17 Oct 1963Page 3“A Royal show for the Beatles”
24 Oct 1963Page 15“The Beatles fly off on a five-day tour of Sweden”
5 Nov 1963Page 3“Marlene Dietrich meets the Beatles”
5 Nov 1963Pages 16 & 17“Beatlemania – night of triumph for four young men at the Royal Variety Show”
6 Nov 1963Pages 6 & 7“Beatlemania – even the champagne and diamond set join the craze”
16 Jan 1964Page 3“Les Beatles – Magnifique!” - The Beatles perform in Paris
8 Feb 1964Front page“Yeah! Yeah! U.S.A! – 5,000 scream ‘welcome’ to the Beatles”
10 Feb 1964Back page“Beatles on TV wow America – they’ve never seen anything like it”
11 Feb 1964Page 5“The Beatles strike gold – twice”
17 Feb 1964Pages 12 & 13“Alone in the sun with the Beatles in Miami”
21 Feb 1964Page 3“Back-stage girl joins four men in a boat for a final holiday fling”
22 Feb 1964Front and back pages“Welcome home Beatles! – all-night siege at London airport”
26 Feb 1964Page 3“A happy birthday, George! – 52 bags full”
20 Mar 1964Pages 16 & 17“The Beatles meet Harold Wilson - the MP from Beatlepool”
24 Mar 1964Front page“Beatles poshed up for the Duke of Edinburgh – but they had to hire suits in a hurry”
24 Apr 1964Page 11“I want to hold my tongue! Beatle John shocks ‘em on his big day”
28 Apr 1964Page 3“The Beatles give the bard a bashing” - The group rehearse to perform an excerpt from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ for an ITV show
30 Apr 1964Page 5“The Beatles meet their wax twins at Madame Tussaud’s in London”
5 June 1964Page 10“The Beatles fly in to a wonderful, wonderful welcome in Copenhagen”
6 June 1964Page 9“Dear Ringo: Get well soon - wish you were here, say the other Beatles
8 June 1964Page 11“Hold that jet! BOAC wait for the Beatles”
13 June 1964Page 4“The greatest Beatle frenzy of all time – hemmed in by 100,000 in Adelaide”
3 July 1964Page 5“The Beatles arrive back in London to only 200 waiting fans”
25 Aug 1964Page 11“Gone fishin’ – just four young men in search of a bite”
27 Aug 1964Page 7“The Beatles are all the rage and Ringo is the big draw in America”
6 Oct 1964Page 7“The Brian Epstein Story”
22 Feb 1965Pages 12 & 13“They’re a ten million pound supercargo flying out today to make a new Beatles film in the sun”
23 Feb 1965Page 8“The Beatles fly off - to tears of hundreds of teenagers”
5 Mar 1965Page 5“The one that bites...” – Donald Zec dissects Mr J. Lennon
12 May 1965Pages 16 & 17“Hail, Ringo – a picture that could only click when a Beatle meets the world’s top fashion photographer”
12 June 1965Front page“Beatles, MBE! – the big surprise in the Queen’s first ‘pop’ honours list”
21 June 1965Page 2“Blockade at London airport halts Beatle fans”
30 July 1965Page 3“Help! say Beatle show police – 4,000 fans at film premiere”
14 Aug 1965Page 7“The Beatles dodge fans’ ‘ambush’ at Kennedy Airport, New York”
27 Oct 1965Front page“The Beatles receive their MBE’s from the Queen at Buckingham Palace”
2 Nov 1965Page 5“A spectacular ‘thank you’ from the Beatles to their first TV producer Johnny Hamp”
20 Nov 1965Page 9“A pop-world look at the four seasons…by the ever-seasonal Beatles”
12 Aug 1966Page 3“Beatles fly in to face the storm. But Lennon says: I’m not worried about tour”
31 Jan 1967Page 7“The Beatles – Now!
20 May 1967Page 3“Beatles hit back on BBC ban on song”
12 Sep 1967Pages 12 & 13“The square look being revived by those very witty Beatles yesterday”
4 Dec 1967Page 5“Meet the wife, says Beatle Ringo to Ewa, his screen sweetheart”
28 Dec 1967Page 3“So we boobed, says Beatle Paul – the inside story of what went wrong with the Magical Mystery Tour”
19 Feb 1968Pages 12 & 13“The Pilgrims’ Progress” – Don Short with the Beatles in India
12 June 1968Page 9“The Big Business Beatles”
30 Sep 1968Page 7“But listen to them now!” – Quotes from ‘The Beatles: The Authorised Biography’
31 Jan 1969Pages 12 & 13“Rooftop Beatles upset the neighbours”
13 Mar 1969Pages 16 & 17Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman at Marylebone Register Office
21 Mar 1969Front pageJohn Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
31 Mar 1969Page 17“They’re getting up today…” – Donald Zec at the bedside in Old Amsterdam
5 July 1969Page 7“Back on the road? I couldn’t face that, says Ringo”
10 Apr 1970Front page“Paul quits the Beatles – ‘deeply cut up’ after policy row”
11 Apr 1970Page 7“Yesterday and tomorrow, by Paul McCartney”
20 Feb 1971Page 7“Why I could not trust Klein – by Paul McCartney”
24 Feb 1971Pages 8 & 9“R.I.P. In memory of the Beatles”
25 Feb 1971Page 9“The Break Up, by Lennon…..The Future, by Epstein”
1 May 1971Page 15“We might play again – Lennon”
11 May 1971Page 7“After the Beatles breakup….Paul goes it alone with the New York Phil”
7 Apr 1973Page 13“Beatles’ secret get-together!”
12 July 1973Page 7“It’s the million-dollar blast from the past…the Beatles tape that could rock the pop world”
22 Jan 1976Page 3“Will 1976 be the year the Beatles get back together? Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!”
15 Sep 1976Page 23“Birth of the Beatles – the people and events that made the world’s headlines”
5 Apr 1977Page 7“Beatles get the needle – Pop stars get together again…to ban their new record”
31 Mar 1980Pages 16 & 17“Nearly 18 years after their first hit – Ringo Starr and John Lennon, doing their own thing”
6 Oct 1980Pages 16 & 17“The Beatles report...twenty years on – only Hitler had greater power over a crowd. Their disciples thought they could heal the sick”
7 Oct 1980Pages 16 & 17“The Beatles report – the winners…and the losers”
9 Oct 1980Pages 12 & 13“The Beatles report – Lennon comes out of hiding”
10 Dec 1980Front page, 7, 12 & 13, 16 & 17“Death of a Hero – John Lennon shot dead in New York - Dec 8, 1980”
11 Dec 1980Pages 16 & 17“Vigil on 72nd Street – ‘there was no spark in New York any more. The city had died’”
15 Dec 1980Page 5“Grief of two cities – they pray for the legend of Liverpool”
17 Oct 1981Page 11“The McCartney family album – the marvellous private snapshots that tell the real Beatles story”
19 Oct 1981Pages 16 & 17“‘Yesterday’ – Paul’s brother Mike takes a look at the early life of the lad who was to find fame as a Beatle”
20 Oct 1981Pages 16 & 17“Private snapshots of four lads who shook the world”
6 July 1982 7 July 1982 8 July 1982Pages 16 & 17 Pages 16 & 17 Pages 16 & 17“Lennon: The Secret Years”
28 Sep 1982Pages 14 & 15“The Beatles as you have never seen them before – making their first hit twenty years ago”
20 Aug 1984Pages 14 & 15“The off-beat Beatles – the Fab Four at play…a long way from Liverpool”
21 Aug 1984Pages 14 & 15“Mop top madness – off-beat peek at the Beatles on their first US tour”
26 May 1987Pages 14 & 15“It was twenty years ago today…and Sgt Pepper taught us all to play”
2 May 1989Pages 8 & 9“Paul McCartney’s own exclusive story: ‘Yesterday…and why I want to buy it back’”
18 June 1990Pages 16 & 17“On his 48th birthday, McCartney – ‘the tears I’ll shed for John’”
2 Jan 1992Pages 8 & 9“Thirty years ago they sang ‘Love me Do’…and we still do”
17 Apr 1992Pages 24 & 25“Harrison’s natural law – Former Beatle George on the private side of his life”
1 Nov 1995Pages 16 & 17“The Beatles tapes: Exclusive on Paul’s 3-year reunion diary”
28 Dec 1995Pages 12 & 13“The Beatles secret album – naked truth of the group’s final fling”
31 Dec 1996Pages 2 & 3“Happy New Yeah Yeah Yeah. Arise Sir Paul! Stars pay tribute to Macca’s Knighthood”
1 Dec 2001Pages 1, 2 & 3, 4 & 5, 10 & 11, 12 & 13, 36 & 37“And the world gently weeps…George Harrison 1943-2001”
10 Mar 2003Page 3“The Secret Gig: June 23, 1994…George’s mansion…three Beatles”
31 Jan 2004Page 10“Give peach a chance” – an early unseen photo of John Lennon in peach swimwear in 1964
6 Dec 2005Page 26“‘It’s no fun being a genius...it’s torture’ – thoughts of John Lennon”
6 Feb 2007Page 10“The Fab Four – Beatles set for every top 40 slot as Apple war is ended”
13 Aug 2008Page 25“‘Let it Beatles’…For Sale – the most important contract in rock ‘n’ roll history”
8 Sep 2009Page 10“Beatle Mania…They could net £1billion by Christmas”
20 Feb 2010Page 31“Imagine if I wear dead….Lennon’s prophetic prank in lost Beatles pictures”
18 June 2012Pages 16 & 17“Happy 70th, Macca”
5 Oct 2012Pages 34 & 35“The day the world changed – 50 years ago today the Beatles released Love Me Do, marking the start of the swinging 60s”
10 June 2013 11 June 2013 12 June 2013Pages 12 & 13 Pages 20 & 21 Pages 22 & 23“Exclusive: Ringo Starr’s unseen photos”
11 Aug 2014Page 26“The black & white album – early Beatles pics go under hammer”
20 Apr 2015Page 23“All Starr band – Ringo finally recognised by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”
25 Sep 2015Pages 14 & 15“Beatles’ Ringo shares his private photos”