The Venues

Here is a list of the venues that will be featured on Beatles Rock Band game

1. Cavern Club:
The Cavern Club is one of the many rock and roll clubs in Liverpool, England. Opened on Wednesday 16 January 1957, the club is where Brian Epstein first saw The Beatles performing, on 9 November 1961.
The Beatles made their first lunchtime appearance at the club on Tuesday 21 February 1961. They had returned to Liverpool from Hamburg, Germany, where they had been playing at the Indra and the Kaiserkeller. Their stage show had been through a lot of changes and some in the audience thought they were watching a German band. From 1961 to 1963 The Beatles made 292 appearances at the club, with their last occurring on 3 August 1963, a month after the band recorded “She Loves You” and just six months before the Beatles’ first trip to the U.S. At the time, Brian Epstein promised the club’s owners that the Beatles would return someday, but it was a promise that was never fulfilled. By this time, “Beatlemania” was sprouting across England, and the small club could no longer satisfy audience demand for the group. During 1962, The Hollies took The Beatles’ slot at the Cavern Club. The Beatles had graduated from the club and had been signed to EMI’s Parlophone label by producer George Martin. The amount of musical activity in Liverpool and Manchester caused record producers who had previously never ventured very far from London to start looking to the north.

Cavern Club

2. The Ed Sullivan Theater:
In late 1963, Sullivan found himself among a throng of 15,000 excited kids at Heathrow Airport in London who were there to see a young British recording group, The Beatles. Sullivan was intrigued. In December 1963, Beatles manager Brian Epstein arranged for the group, still relatively unknown in the United States, to appear three times on the show at $4000 per appearance. Epstein was then able to convince Capitol Records to mount a publicity campaign for the Beatles arrival, and to release “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”

The Beatles appeared on three consecutive Sundays in February, 1964, to great anticipation and fanfare as “I Want to Hold Your Hand” had swiftly risen to #1 in the charts. Their first appearance on February 9 is considered a milestone in American pop culture and the beginning of the British Invasion in music. The broadcast drew an estimated 73 million viewers, at the time a record for an American television program, and was characterized by an audience composed largely of screaming teenage girls in tears. The Beatles followed Ed’s show opening intro, performing “All My Loving,” “Till There Was You” (featuring the Beatles names imposed on the screen and the famous “SORRY GIRLS, HE’S MARRIED” caption under John), and “She Loves You.” Then, late in the hour, they returned to perform “I Want to Hold Your Hand”.

The Beatles On Ed Sullivan Show

3. The Shea Stadium:
One of the most significant concerts in music history occurred at Shea Stadium on Sunday, August 15, 1965, when The Beatles opened their 1965 North American tour there to a record audience of 55,600. The Beatles played only 12 songs that night. “Beatlemania” was at one of its highest marks at the Shea Concert. Film footage taken at the concert shows many teenagers and women crying, screaming, and even fainting. The crowd noise was such that security guards can be seen covering their ears as the The Beatles enter the field. The sound was so deafening that none of The Beatles (or anyone else) could hear anything. Nevertheless, it was the first concert to be held at a major stadium and set records for attendance and revenue generation, demonstrating that outdoor concerts on a large scale could be successful and profitable, and led the Beatles to return again to Shea for a very successful encore on 23 August 1966. The attendance record stood until 1971 when it was broken by Grand Funk Railroad.

The Beatles In Shea Stadium

4. The Nippon Budokan:
The Nippon Budokan (日本武道館, Nippon Budōkan?), often shortened to just “Budokan,” is an arena in central Tokyo, Japan.
For many Westerners, the Budokan is synonymous with large-scale rock concerts. It was here that The Beatles made their Japanese debutand the location where many “Live at the Budokan” albums were recorded. The Nippon Budokan, however, was originally built for the judo competition in the 1964 Summer Olympics, hence its name, rendered into English as Martial Arts Hall.

The Beatles In Nippon Budokan

5. Abbey Road Studio:
Abbey Road Studios, established in November 1931 by a predecessor of EMI in London, England, is a recording studio located at number 3 Abbey Road, in St John’s Wood in the City of Westminster. Originally focused on the recording of classical music, the studios later opened its doors to rock and pop recording artists, and became closely associated with The Beatles, who recorded nearly all of their studio material there.
Abbey Road Studios is most closely associated with The Beatles, who recorded 90% of their albums and singles there between 1962 and 1970. The Beatles named their 1969 album, Abbey Road, after the street where the studio is located (the recording studio would only be named Abbey Road after The Beatles record in 1970). The cover photo for that album was taken by Iain Macmillan outside Abbey Road Studios, with the result that the pedestrian zebra crossing outside the studio, where the Fab Four were photographed soon became a place of pilgrimage for Beatles fans from all over the world. (See zebra crossing webcam.) The crossing is no longer in the same location as it was in 1969, having been moved further east in the 1970s. Looking across the street in the direction the Beatles crossed it, the crossing was moved from the left side of the light pole on the destination side of the street (the side John Lennon is closest to) to the right side of the pole. It has been a long-standing tradition for visitors to pay homage to the band by writing on the studio fence in front, although it is painted over monthly.
Apart from their use as a recording studio, the premises have also been used to remaster many of the classical music recordings made at Kingsway Hall.

The Beatles At Abbey Road Studios

6. Apple Corps Rooftop:
The offices of The Beatles’ Apple Corps were at 3 Savile Row; The Beatles, Badfinger, Mary Hopkin and others recorded in the Apple Studios in the basement. The Beatles’ final, live performance was on the roof, on 30 January 1969. That “Rooftop Concert” concludes the documentary film Let It Be.

The Beatles On Apple Corps Rooftop