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Date	Event
3 Tuesday	Rory Storm and the Hurricanes with a drummer Richard Starkey performs in Liverpool Stadium. It was a few months later that Ritchie became Ringo Starr.
5 Thursday	The band's name is changed to `The Silver Beetles'. Tommy Moore becomes the drummer for one month. (Norman Chapman was the drummer prior to leaving for military service.) Allan Williams becomes the manager. (Date is approximate.)
10 Tuesday	Audition for Larry Parnes at the Wyvern Social Club (The Blue Candle), 108 Seel Street, Liverpool. Other acts are Derry and the Seniors, Bob Evans and his Five Shillings, Gerry and the Pacemakers and Cass and the Casanovas. This was an audition in search of a backing band for an upcoming Billy Fury tour. The Silver Beatles didn't win the audition. However, Larry Parnes liked what he heard and hired the band to back Johnny Gentle on a tour of Scotland at the end of May. Tommy Moore, The Silver Beatles' drummer at this time, arrived late after a couple of songs. Johnny Hutchinson from Cass and the Cassanovas gratiously filled in on drums with a routine drum beat.
14 Saturday	The Silver Beats perform at Lathom Hall in Liverpool. This is the first time the group used that name.
20 Friday	Contract with Paramount Enterprises, to play the Grosvenor Ballroom, Wallasey.
20 Friday	Start of a 7 day tour of Scotland as backup band for Johnny Gentle, also of Liverpool. They perform at Town Hall in Town Hall in Alloa, Clackmannanshire. Other acts are Tommy Steele, Alex Harvey and his Beat Band and Bobby Rankine.
21 Saturday	Performance in the Johnny Gentle Scotland Tour at the Northern Meeting Ballroom in Inverness. Also performing are Ronnie Watt and the Chekkers Rock Dance Band.
23 Monday	Performance in the Johnny Gentle Scotland Tour at Dalrymple Hall, Fraserburgh, Aberdeen. Johnny Gentle crashes the van carrying himself and the Beatles. Tommy Moore is hit in the mouth by a guitar.
25 Wednesday	The Cavern changes style and opens its doors to rock'n'roll groups.
25 Wednesday	Performance in the Johnny Gentle Scotland Tour at St. Thomas' Hall, Deith, Banffshire.
26 Thursday	Performance in the Johnny Gentle Scotland Tour at the Town Hall, Forres, Morayshire. Also performing are Rikki Barnes and his All Stars with Lena and Stevie.
27 Friday	Performance at the Regal Ballroom in Nairn, Nairnshire, Scotland backing Johnny Gentle.
28 Saturday	Performance in the Johnny Gentle Scotland Tour at the Rescue Hall in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. The tour ends.
30 Monday	Performance at the Jacaranda Coffee Bar in Liverpool.

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