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British Beatles Fan Club Magazine 36 – April 2010

The BRAVO-BEATLES-BLITZTOURNEE by Thorsten Knublauch Published by www.bravo-beatles-blitztournee.de (ISBN: 9783837097443) 
It’s easy to write a book about the Beatles. Thousands of them have and will be written in the near future. But is it easy to write a book about just five days in June of 1966? An article yes, but a whole book? I doubt it. Many books are just fillers, have nice pictures, a story by some limo driver, fans or whoever was present. But this one is a goody and a real nice addition to Beatle literature. Thorsten Knublauch already launched a great book in 2008 with "KOMM GIB MIR DEINE HAND" which he wrote together with Axel Korinth, detailing greatly every connection the group had with Germany. Sadly that publication was only published in German.The Blitztournee book is in English so there are no speech barriers here and this is well researched for every little possible detail. Inside there is everything concerning their short trip to their musical roots, and I mean EVERYTHING. How they came to Germany, why were only certain cities for concerts chosen, the seating plans, press coverage, set list, the instruments, sound systems, stage plans, concert tickets,programs, opening acts, police films, merchandising and even a chapter about the Beatles earnings for these concerts. A special train was available for the tour and here are all the known documents, including the menu plans for the Beatles train, plus many more chapters which are great fun to read about. There are interesting facts about their short Hamburg stay including some friends of the past. Also included are interviews and memorabilia of the people who met them first in 1960 and went to the 1966 concerts as well, plus great unreleased black & white photos of the shows and a nice colour part with reproduction of all known concerts tickets, not to forget the concert programmes and other memorabilia (that cost a fortune nowadays - try to find them!). So if you care for a well researched nicely written little book where the author put his whole heart into it…here it is…I hope he writes another one like this. Harald Bartsch  


The first     E N G L I S H    book about the



BRAVO BEATLES BLITZTOURNEE 1966



(member of support act Cliff Bennett and recording artist with The Beatles on the Polydor session 1962.)

size 17 x 22 cm

252 pages

incl. 17 colour pages - showing all known ticket variations

Some samples....