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The day Elvis met the 'fab four'

Aug 19 2005

By Joe Riley, Liverpool Echo

 

SOMETIMES the greatest art lies in recognising a unique opportunity.

Doug Darroch, who runs Operation Big Beat based at mid-Mersey Fort Perch Rock, off New Brighton, has come up with another stunner ...

It's an Elvis Meets The Beatles show to mark this month's 40th anniversary of the one time the King of Rock 'n' roll met the Fab Four.

Says Doug: "I am unaware of anywhere else in the world which is marking the meeting of the two biggest legends in popular music.

"The fact that it coincides with the Mathew Street Festival is an added bonus."

Doug's show was inspired by his many meetings with Alf Bicknell, The Beatles' road manager from 1964 to 66. "Alf was actually present when Elvis Presley met The Beatles," says Doug.

"We can only imagine what the real thing might have been like. But we feel we have got it pretty close." Catch the show at: Theatre Royal, St Helens, August 26; Assembly Rooms, Birkenhead Town Hall, August 27.

PS: Limited edition prints by 'fifth Beatle' Stuart Sutcliffe, go on show at Hope University's Cornerstone Gallery, Everton, next Friday. Some are for sale.

Cornerstone has been given special rights to handle the Sutcliffe exhibition.

 

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