Following a one-day break, the Roy Orbison tour resumed on this day with a concert at the Gaumont Cinema, Ipswich, Suffolk.
Roy Orbison was the billed headliner on this occasion, although audience demand meant that The Beatles were the last to perform. The other acts on the bill were Gerry and the Pacemakers, David Macbeth, Louise Cordet, Tony Marsh, Terry Young Six, Erkey Grant, and Ian Crawford.
The Beatles performed seven songs: ‘Some Other Guy’, ‘Do You Want To Know A Secret’, ‘Love Me Do’, ‘From Me To You’, ‘Please Please Me’, ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, and ‘Twist And Shout’.
It was The Beatles’ first concert at the venue. They returned there a second time on 31 October 1964, although by that time they had progress to become the headline act.
Also on this day...
- 2024: Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Venetian Theatre, Las Vegas
- 2013: Paul McCartney live: Frank Erwin Center, Austin
- 2012: Abbey Road outtake photograph sells for £16,000
- 2011: Paul McCartney live: Estádio Olímpico João Havelange, Rio de Janeiro
- 1992: US album release: Time Takes Time by Ringo Starr
- 1980: John Lennon’s to-do list at the Dakota
- 1976: Wings live: Boston Garden, Boston
- 1969: Ringo Starr flies from New York to the Bahamas
- 1968: John and Yoko attend press launch of Apple Tailoring
- 1964: Recording: You Can’t Do That
- 1962: The Beatles live: Star-Club, Hamburg
- 1961: The Beatles live: Top Ten Club, Hamburg
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I went to see the Beatles at Ipswich Gaumont in 1963 as a schoolgirl – I booked tickets two weeks after the box office opened and amazingly got second row seats in the stalls!
Roy Orbison was great and Louise Cordet was very good; I remember she had a hit with a song called I’m Just a Baby. The Beatles were gorgeous. There was no hysteria and no huge crowds that I can remember. In fact, in contrast to the gig at the Odeon in Romford about a month later, it was pretty low-key.
A whole lot of us schoolgirls booked a coach from Colchester to Great Yarmouth to see the Beatles a few weeks later but they did not appear. Gerry and the Pacemakers topped the bill I think. A bit of a disappointment when it should have been the Beatles. Absolutely everyone at school was talking about the Beatles.
I had cousins behind the iron curtain and they were Beatles fans and wanted to know more about them. I was a member of their fan club, run by Bettina Rose in Liverpool in those days, and had that feeling that they were ‘my’ group. Round about this time I became conscious that they were a world-wide phenomenon…
Hi MT. I’d like to talk to you about your memories for a book I’m writing about the Beatles six UK tours. You can find contact details through my website.
We were Air Force brats living off base in Felixstowe, so me and my girlfriend went to see them in Ipswich. I still have my program. It’s old and wrinkled but so am I! Great memories.
I saw Gerry and the pacemakers in the 60s at the Gaumont absolutely love them and they still going Ferry cross the Mersey