#royal command performance

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[rolloroberson]

Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, and David Bowie at the Prince’s Trust Royal Command Performance in 1986.

[detroitlib]

View of singer Nat King Cole meeting Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain. Printed on front: "(NY50-May 16) Queen visits entertainers. Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain talks with American entertainer Nat King Cole backstage tonight at the London Palladium. The British ruler went backstage to meet the artists who appeared in a royal command variety show. The performer next to Cole is unidentified. (AP wirephoto by radio from London) 1960. (s22125prewi2)." Stamped on back: "Associated Press wirephoto." 

Courtesy of the E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

[tea-courage-continue]

Errol Flynn on stage for the 1949 Royal Command Performance, London.

By Mark Kauffman for LIFE & © Time Inc.

[thebeatlesphotovault]

Original Beatles photo: The Beatles pose with Marlene Dietrich 1963 Royal Command Performance

[mrepstein]

November 4

1963

The Beatles appear in the Royal Command (Variety) Performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London. Brian Epstein watches the show from the audience.

1966

NEMS Enterprises moves out of its original London premises at 13 Monmouth Street, WC2. The only activities that were still based there, the fan clubs, move into Sutherland House.

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Danny Kaye 

Royal Command Performance Rehearsal at the London Palladium, 1948.

[thoseliverpoollads]

Today in 1963, November 4th The Beatles were among a few stars who were on hand for the Royal Command Variety Performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London, in the presence of the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret. Marlene Dietrich was there as well (final image)

"Marlene Dietrich was also on. I met her and I remember staring at her legs - which were great - as she slouched against a chair. I'm a leg-man: 'Look at those pins!' "- Ringo Starr