Show Notes
Join me and the co-author of ' The Beatles' London', Piet Schreuders, as we examine this marvellous hotel, which was arguably the Beatles' first London home. We will also enjoy pootling around Guilford St and Russell Square.
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The Ad Lib was the Beatles' favourite nightclub. They spent a lot of time here throughout 1964 and 1965 and it shaped them as people. Let's take a seat by the dancefloor, order a scotch and coke, and take part in the fascinating stories which occurred here - from hanging out with the other superstars of the Swinging Sixties to one particularly mind-expanding event involving spiked coffee and a lift which appears to be on fire.
The Ad Lib was THE Beatles' nightclub. In this epiosde, we explore its history before the Beatles made it their clubhouse, taking in Peter Cook's Establishment Club, sexy, drug-fuelled romps in Torremolinos, and Wip's nightclub with its fur walls and tank of piranhas.
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The Beatles are taking the nation by storm. They're performing the biggest gig of their lives at the London Palladium. Where to have the after-party? Grosvenor House, Brian's hotel, on Park Lane. A few weeks later they are back at the hotel for an unusual charity concert. Let's join them in this sumptuous setting as 1963 hurtles towards its thrilling climax.
Might the Royal Court be the London hotel which held the most cherished memories for the Beatles? They stayed here during their earliest EMI recordings, including their first LP. It was also their base for discovering London properly between June 1962 and the spring of 1963, as their careers and lives changed forever.