#daily express

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“I have gay friends.”

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Band On The Run - Wings

📷 by Reg Lancaster/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

[mrepstein]

WHERE I’M GOING NOW...

BRIAN EPSTEIN talking to JUDITH SIMONS

The Daily Express - January 9, 1967

Brian Epstein sat in his box at his own London theatre, the Saville, watching with boyish excitement as the “Fame In 67” company completed a “Batman” routine.

“I can tell the mood of each artist at every performance,” he murmured; “Georgie Fame is in fine form tonight. I’m making this theatre quite my home… been here every night of the show.”

This man, who once watched an unknown beat group in an obscure Liverpool cellar club with similar enthusiasm, is now founding a second major career.

The hunches, astuteness, and charm which steered the Beatles to millionairehood and M.B.E.s are at work again.

For since Epstein engaged America’s Four Tops for his first Saville pop concert in November, his Sunday shows there have been sell-outs.

And business at his first pop-show season is good enough to justify its extension from two weeks to three.

In his private sitting room adjoining his box Epstein, now 32, talked of his 1967 plans.

THE BOYS

This year the public will see him more as a personality in his own right than in the wake of the Beatles.

“I am not belittling my Beatles’ management in any way - l want to continue with their management and see them in their future activities.” he said.

“The boys would want me to do other things successfully. They are interested in this theatre, and have made very valid and intelligent suggestions. At the moment they are working on recording, then comes their third film, and possibly a television spectacular. There are no plans for personal appearances at the moment.

“I want to see Cilla Black as the first international singer in the world, and I am negotiating a film for her. Gerry Marsden has enormous potential, and I will include him in Saville activities.

“And I am still responsible as personal manager to the Fourmost, Sounds Incorporated, Billy J. Kramer and the Remo Four.

EXCITEMENT

“Obviously, though, at this moment, I am centring my activities on my theatre. I want to be in absolute control here.

“My schedule up to March includes artists who cause excitement, in the main, rather than screams: The Who, The Cream, Lee Dorsey, Chuck Berry, Garnet Mimms, Edwin Starr, Fats Domino.

“I’m also including a Ballets Africains season and a Tahitian dance company, and I’m negotiating to present Tom Jones. I’m hoping to give midnight film shows.

“I do not intend taking on a second theatre: I would not like the responsibility. I like my eight hours’ sleep and I don’t want to do all that much. I’m aware that if one does too much, one’s health suffers.

“I have tried to do other things in the theatre, and would still like to direct plays. I did one at the Arts. It was described as one of the most promising flops of the season.

“I am a gambler on horses, at the gaming tables, and in show business. This theatre is still at the breaking-even stage. I have gambled more heavily than the Beatles, and if I ceased today I would have a lot less money than the Beatles!”

[itsallmadonnasfault]

drownediva 25th March 2026 - @madonna & @juliagarnerofficial are pictured in today’s UK 🇬🇧 press, on a gondola in Venice, re-enacting Madonna’s legendary 1984 ‘Like A Virgin’ video, which was filmed in the Italian city, 42 years ago! ❤️ 📰 🇮🇹

The newspaper pages are from the Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Daily Star, & The Sun.

#madonna#juliagarner#venice#likeavirgin#madonnacollection

[nostalgia-eh52]

Circa 1970s Roy Wood of Wizzard 🎶

[sukipotier]

Suki Potier gives Brian Jones a kiss!

From the Daily Express newspaper, September 27, 1968

[smbhax]

First image from the surface of the Moon--taken by the Russian probe Luna 9 in 1966, but first published in a British newspaper: the Jodrell Bank radio telescope in Britain had picked up the probe's transmissions from the Moon's surface, heard that they sounded like fax machine noises, borrowed a fax machine from the nearby Daily Express newspaper office, plugged the sound of the radio signals into it...and it printed out the Russian probe's photos for them.

BBC Two - The Planets Revisited, Moon: Staying Alive, Luna 9's photo coup

A Russian probe sends back the first pictures taken from the Moon's surface.