Friday 8 February 1963 The Night The Beatles were thrown out of a Carlisle Hotel
Would Bill Berry have acted differently if he'd known who the four young men in leather jackets were, and what they would become?
Mr Berry took great pride in his position as chairman of Carlisle Golf Club. And when he saw four rather scruffy young chaps stroll into the club's annual dinner-dance and start tucking into the buffet...
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...he decided that their behaviour simply wasn't acceptable.
(Photo above-Not really how they ate that night.. perhaps it was worse! )
This was the ballroom of the Crown and Mitre Hotel, for heaven's sake!
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Please note- 'Not the night of the incident'
Berry approached them, had a quiet word, and the four leather jackets slipped away into obscurity.
Well, not quite. John, Paul, George and Ringo managed to bounce back from the snub they suffered in Cumberland in 1963. More than one billion records sold and a legacy as the greatest act in popular music are testament to that.
The night the Beatles were asked to leave the Crown and Mitre ballroom has long been a part of Fab Four and Carlisle legend. And the story has now been told for the first time by one of the stars who was there.
Not one of the Beatles, but the singer who topped the bill on their first nationwide tour.
Helen Shapiro was only 16 when she arrived in Carlisle with the Beatles on Friday February 8, 1963. Shapiro had already had two number one singles while Beatlemania was on the verge of exploding.
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