Fifty years ago, The Beatles released their first single Love Me Do. Pop music and the charts would never be the same again.
That year they also had a gig in Morecambe, playing the Floral Hall ballroom. The hall is long gone and sadly, memories are fading of the four most famous pairs of feet ever to set foot in the town, as ELLIS BUTCHER discovers.
IN 1962 Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister, over 9,000 crammed in to Christie Park for Morecambe’s FA Cup 3rd round tie against Weymouth and The Beatles played their first of two gigs in Morecambe.
Well-known local musician Steve ‘Golly’ Goulding, now 65, was a regular at The Floral Hall with his band The Fontaines. Asked for his recollections, he doesn’t even flinch.
“I don’t remember them coming in 1962,” he says. “They didn’t mean anything to us.”
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IN 1962 Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister, over 9,000 crammed in to Christie Park for Morecambe’s FA Cup 3rd round tie against Weymouth and The Beatles played their first of two gigs in Morecambe.
Well-known local musician Steve ‘Golly’ Goulding, now 65, was a regular at The Floral Hall with his band The Fontaines. Asked for his recollections, he doesn’t even flinch.
“I don’t remember them coming in 1962,” he says. “They didn’t mean anything to us.”
READ MORE...HERE.
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