THE BEATLES IN KIRKCALDY: CELEBRATING THE FIFE GIG, 60 YEARS ON

This week in 1963 The Beatles came to Kirkcaldy for two shows at the Carlton in Park Road. Sixty years on, several events and exhibitions around town will celebrate this anniversary - and rightly so.

In John Lennon’s words they had already peaked as the two-hour shows they once did was now reduced to 20 minutes or guest slots like the London Palladium which they indeed did play just seven days later to an audience of 20 million on live TV. 

This was when the term Beatlemania was first coined.

Their first album was number one, and their third single, She Loves You was still topping the chart after a six-week run at the top.

Hamish Stuart later of Average White Band, aged 14 won a competition in Glasgow’s Evening Citizen to see the group play Glasgow, it was his first concert, and he would later tour with the Ringo Starr All Starr Band.

Kirkcaldy boy John Stevenson won tickets from a newspaper by writing a poem and he would go on to form soul band Gaels Blue whose reunion shows still sell out today. Kirkcaldy teenager Jennifer Anderson won tickets and met The Beatles in the Carlton and had the insight to have her programme signed by all four, an item worth £10,000 today.

 

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