Spring 1963 Tommy Roe / Chris Montez Tour

First concert I ever attended and still have the original ticket.

Hi Tony, that is awesome - I would be delighted if you would be keen to send a picture of the original ticket ! All the best.

I can remember seeing the billboard at the Granada Cinema in Harrow for this tour, it is not on this list am I wrong or has this been missed off the list?

As an 17 year old student studying to be a Surveyor at the South West Technical College at Walthamstow one of my fellow students had a pair of tickets to see Tommy Roe, Chris Montez and the Beatles on the 9th March 1963 at the Granada Cinema at nearby East Ham. When l phoned Kaye my girlfriend she was ecstatic and we both attended a great concert that evening That concert stayed in my heart and soul being a great fan of all three, Moving on to December1988 whilst flying on Concorde from London to Barbados my then Norwegian wife Sylvi and L were sat directly across the gangway to Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach, and engaged in conversation the entire flight as they, like ourselves were going on to Mustique. We were going to stay with our friend Basil Charles the owner of Basils Bar Mustique as we had booked the bar on the 6th and 7th January 1989 for an overnight celebration of my wife's 40th birthday party attended also by Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. Mick and l shared a mutual ltalian architect Mario Spinella who designed my villa on nearby St Vincent as well as Micks. Also attending was our good friend Sir Frederick (Freddy) Ballantyne the Governor General of SVG

WOW, what amazing stories, thanks for sharing those, Roger !

I was at the Newcastle City Hall concert on 23rd March 1963, We were so young and didnt have much money but we could buy half price tickets to sit on the stage. No one really knew who the Beatles were. They'd had a minor hit with Love me Do and just had a number 1 with Please Please Me. The Beatles were on just before the interval and the crowd went wild for them. After the interval Tommy Roe was drowned out by booing and shouting for the Beatles. Chris Montez was so furious he started to strip during 'Lets Dance' bringing an already excited audience of little girls to fever pitch. those of us on the stage attacked him and pulled him off his feet. He was terrified.

Six months later I was back to see the Beatles again but by then we knew them by name, had to queue all night and couldn't hear a thing for the screaming.

Thanks Marion. Those are awesome memories ! Thanks for sharing with us