John Lennon outside the Royal Turks Head Hotel, Grey Street, Newcastle, 26 June 1963. On the same day, before playing the Majestic Ballroom (now O2 Academy), Lennon and Paul McCartney sat on twin beds in the hotel and wrote She Loves You. #TheBeatles @marklewisohn
... Today the former Royal Turks Head houses the Muddler restaurant/bar, office space, and apartments. The plaque on the wall at No 71 is not for the Beatles but for the suffragette movement. Marchers stopped at the hotel on their way from Edinburgh to London in 1912. 2/2
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"That would be a great name for the group." Report of the Newcastle show on 26 June 1963 includes a dubious explanation from Paul McCartney of how the Beatles got their name, from @ChronicleLive via @BNArchive.
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