AUTHOR Ivor Davis will appear in person on Sunday, January 18th at Rockaway Records in Silver Lake for a talk and book signing of “The Beatles and Me On Tour” a look back at his experiences when he traveled with the Fab Four during their 1964 tour of North America. The talk begins at 2 pm.
The Beatles and Me On Tour is described as ‘a refreshing and entertaining look by a real insider who recorded the intimate, non-public happenings on the history-making tour’. Davis was then a young reporter for the Daily Express and traveled with the Beatles as the only British newspaper writer invited on the entire tour.
Through thirty-four days and twenty-four cities, Davis watched as the lads made rock history. He enjoyed unrestricted access – from their hotel suites to backstage at concert arenas to their private jet.
“Being stationed in America in the sixties,” said Davis, “was a continual roller coaster ride of news and earth shaking events to cover as a journalist. I traveled with Bobby Kennedy and was at the Ambassador Hotel the night he was assassinated. I was smuggled into the University of Mississippi when James Meredith enrolled and on the front lines of the Los Angeles Watts riots three years later. Then came the seventies with the Angela Davis and Daniel Ellsberg trials to cover. Not to mention the Patty Hearst conviction.”
Rockaway Records is located at 2395 Glendale Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90039. Phone (323) 664-3232 or visit www.rockaway.com
