Fan Archive Beatles Sheffield - FABS

25/05/2026

I found last years' performance incredibly moving, and so inspiriational within a month the FABS project was born...I adore The Sheffield Beatles Project ❤️ can't wait for this year's!

25/05/2026

A birthday present to see her idols and Linda watches as fainting fans get pulled out the audience, an evocative Beatlemania memory....

I remember my mum queued for ages to get me a ticket for the concert as I had a birthday coming up, and it was one of my gifts.It was quite frenzied in the auditorium. Nobody heard any music or lyrics because the screaming from the audience drowned everything else out. We didn’t mind; it […]

18/05/2026

A little project update…

Over the past few months I’ve been collecting stories of Sheffield people who remember The Beatles coming to the city, from standing outside venues to chance encounters and everything in between. The response has been incredible and I’ve been lucky enough to hear some really special memories.

From June I’ll be taking a step back from actively collecting new stories so I can begin shaping everything into the exhibition and writing the material up.

That said, if you do have a memory, photograph or anything you’d like to share, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. I’d still love to hear from you.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far. It really does mean a lot.

Emma

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14/05/2026

A little project update…

Over the past few months I’ve been collecting stories of Sheffield people who remember The Beatles coming to the city, from standing outside venues to chance encounters and everything in between. The response has been incredible and I’ve been lucky enough to hear some really special memories.

From June I’ll be taking a step back from actively collecting new stories so I can begin shaping everything into the exhibition and writing the material up.

That said, if you do have a memory, photograph or anything you’d like to share, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. I’d still love to hear from you.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far. It really does mean a lot.

Emma

11/05/2026

Shouting herself hoarse and a bustling city centre, fantastic memory from Anne from the Stage Door

It must have been ‘64 when myself and David’s sister, my now sister-in-law (we were just friends at the time) toddled off into town because The Beatles were there that Saturday. We’d have been 12 because we were both born in 1952. We stood outside the City Hall at the back entrance and just sh...

30/04/2026

New story added: All She Could Hear Was Screaming

Diane recalls the night The Beatles played the Azena in 1963 and how her sister, forbidden from attending, had to listen from the back garden instead.

Read the full memory here:

All she could hear was screaming… I was only 11 and, although I now love The Beatles, it was my sister, about 14 at the time, who really wanted to go. Our mum and dad wouldn’t let her; they thought she was too young and worried she might get crushed. “You’ll be able to hear […]

27/04/2026

One of my favourite memories collected so far:

A Sheffield schoolgirl in a mustard swing coat goes autograph hunting… and ends up chatting to The Beatles hanging out of their hotel window.

They were still so new they had to say who was who!

Sue’s wonderful full story is now live on the archive:

Autograph Hunting Led to a Chance Encounter with The Beatles… My friends and I used to go autograph hunting between the City Hall and the Grand Hotel on a Saturday. I remember on that particular weekend I was feeling particularly cool in a mustard woollen swing coat with an integral scarf which ha...

23/04/2026

A student radio programme at the University of Sheffield led to a backstage interview with George Harrison and Eric Clapton in December 1969....

A student radio programme at the University of Sheffield led to a backstage interview with George Harrison and Eric Clapton in December 1969. The programme, Radio Five, was produced by students for broadcast on Radio Sheffield. Frank Parker I was born in Luton, but my father was from Chesterfield, s...

20/04/2026

Showing Sharon, who was plucked out of the crowd, this photo of the 10,000 outside the City Hall Nov 63 just now and she said "that's so weird, I just remember seeing loads of colour, just an abundance of colour";
were you there too? do you remember the colour and the excitement?
https://fanarchivebeatlessheffield.uk/2026/02/05/sharon-roberts/

19/04/2026

"I still have no idea who that girl was...." Sharon gets backstage at Wings

When I went to see Paul McCartney and Wings at the City Hall in 1973 I wore my Biba dress, I still have the ticket somewhere [Sharon found it in her sisters’ old leather purse some weeks after our conversation]. I went with 2 friends and we got talking to the girl next to me […]