The Tropicana Casino & Resort announced today Larry Kane will host the “Ticket to Ride” featuring Yesterday – A Beatles Tribute Show Band performing their show “The British Are Coming” in the Tropicana Showroom on Thursday, August 30 at 8 p.m.

The show, hosted by Larry Kane, will feature Yesterday performing Beatles hits, including “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Ticket to Ride.” As host, Kane will be able to shed insight into the Beatles American rise to stardom, as he was the only journalist to travel to every stop on the Beatles 1964 and 1965 tours, and interviewed the Beatles on multiple occasions. In addition to hosting the performance, Kane will also be signing autographs and Tropicana will host the world premiere of his newest audio book, “Ticket To Ride,” which will not be available again until October through iTunes. Narrated by Kane and including interviews with The Beatles from the 1964-65 period, “A Ticket To Ride” will be on sale exclusively through Tropicana. A portion of the ticket sales and a Beatles memorabilia raffle will be held to benefit the Covenant House in Atlantic City.

Larry Kane, known as the dean of Philadelphia television news anchors, has been one of the market’s most respected broadcast journalists for more than 40 years, and has recently marked his 45th anniversary in broadcasting. Kane is currently the host of the “Voice of Reason” on CN8.

Las Vegas based Yesterday is currently performing in the Liverpool Club Wednesday through Sunday at 8:30 pm (second Sgt. Pepper show at 10:30 pm on Saturday’s), on the first floor of the North Tower (old Cabaret Theater). Yesterday Productions has been performing the Beatles since 1986 in the U.S. and throughout the world receiving acclaim from Rolling Stone Magazine among many others.

Covenant House is the largest privately funded nonprofit agency in North and Central America providing shelter and other services to homeless, runaway and throwaway youth. In addition to food, shelter, clothing and immediate crisis care, Covenant House provides a variety of services, including medical care, educational and vocational programs, drug abuse treatment and prevention programs, legal aid services, recreation programs, mother/child programs, transitional living programs, life-skills training and street outreach.

Date and show time for “Ticket to Ride” performance with Yesterday hosted by Larry Kane in the Tropicana Showroom is Thursday, August 30 at 8 p.m. Tickets are priced at $25, and are available through Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.com or via phone at 1.800.736.1420, or at the Tropicana Box Office, located on the 1st floor of the North Tower.

More information:
• The Atlantic City Tropicana, Home of The Quarter
• Larry Kane official website
• Yesterday official website

 image:  (c) University of Dundee

The Beatles Photographs by Michael Peto

18th August 2007 to 2 March 2008 @ National Conservation Centre, Whitechapel, Liverpool

A unique photographic exhibition of The Beatles is coming to the National Conservation Centre in August. ‘Now These Days Are Gone’ is an exhibition of informal shots, taken on the set of HELP! by Michael Peto, one of the great photojournalists of the 1960s.

Taken in 1965, they mark the metamorphosis of the Beatles from pop stars into the most famous band in history against the backdrop of a decade of great social and cultural change.

The exhibition of over 40 images demonstrates Peto’s unobtrusive approach, which enabled him to fade into the background and capture his subjects in a relaxed, natural manner.

These photographs of the Beatles came to light during the digitisation of Michale Peto’s collection of 130,000 prints and negatives, donated by his family to the University of Dundee following his death in 1970.

This exhibition has been produced by the University of Dundee, the custodians of the Michael Peto photographic collection.

Admission FREE.

Open 10am-5pm every day 

For more info go to: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/conservation/exhibitions/beatles/

A batch of previously unseen photos of legendary pop combo The Beatles will be unveiled for the first time ever at an exhibition in Norwich.
The city’s St Giles’ Street Gallery has secured a world scoop by obtaining never-seen-before images of the most famous band ever recording their most famous album nearly 40 years ago.
Taken at London’s Abbey Road Studios in 1967, the photos include the Fab Four relaxing during the recording of the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts’ Club Band LP and eating lunch with producer George Martin.
They were taken by Sunday Times photographer Frank Herrmann hours before the band posed for the cover of Sgt Pepper, and were previously thought to have been lost.
But thanks to modern technology, the shots, which show the group happily drinking tea, chatting and taking a break from recording, have been restored from the original contact sheets.
The gallery will exhibit the 24 original black and white prints from June 1 to September 1, as well as a selection of Mr Herrmann’s photos which were used in the limited-edition Summer of Love book.
Photographer David Koppel, who founded the gallery and whose friendship with Mr Herrmann helped secure the exhibition, said: “The photos are really amazing and there’s been a huge amount of interest in them already. My favourite is the one where George (Harrison) is pouring a cup of tea, which shows all the four Beatles and George Martin.”
The images of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and George Martin were taken when Mr Herrmann visited Abbey Road studios on March 30.
Twelve of those images were made into original artwork for the Summer of Love book, but the rest remain unseen.
Books and prints will be available for sale for the duration of the exhibition.
The gallery was founded after exhibiting successfully in its former incarnation, Frames of Norwich. The building was formerly the St Giles Post Office which closed in 2004 as part of a cull of branches across Norfolk.
The gallery is open Monday to Saturday, from 10am to 6pm, admission free.
For more information, go to www.sgsgallery.com