The Beatles Australasian Tour 1964

28/06/2026

It’s always fabulous to see visiting music industry leaders snap up our humble little book📕 Thank you Kris Truzzi

Yesterday was a hectic day at the shop. We had a very interesting visit from KRIS TRUZZI a music industry stalwart from Ann Arbor, Michigan out here as tour manager for Colin Hay. Kris has among numerous other things tour managed Rickie Lee Jones, Ryan Adams, and Colin Hay; been a recording and sound engineer and also spent time at All Music. First and foremost however Kris is a big music fan and great conversationalist. To be able to share his abundant knowledge was a real pleasure. Great to catch up, we hope you enjoy your purchases and have many hours of fun reading about The Beatles tour of Australia. Safe travels and no doubt we will all catch up again. 😀👍

25/06/2026

Happy Global Beatles Day 🥳
Sixty two years after drawing their largest-ever crowds here and securing a record-breaking top seven spots on our music charts, Australia’s historic love for the Beatles remains unchanged.

11/06/2026

The Beatles arrived in Darwin and Sydney sixty two years ago today, embarking on their most historical - and hysterical - tour of Australia and New Zealand 1964.

Want to relive the entire tour in wonderful detail? This is the only Beatles book you'll need this anniversary.

Second edition flexibound paperback, as well as a limited leatherette collectors edition are available now - here, there and everywhere: https://linktr.ee/whenwewasfab

Here's one of the many excellent interviews the authors gave to discuss the book and the Beatles impact on the land down under.

Rod caught up with Greg Armstrong, author of thoroughly comprehensive Beatle history book When We Was Fab: Inside the Beatles Australasian Tour, to talk about the Fab Four's Magical Mystery Tour of Australia.

09/04/2026

We have most definitely lost one of the Kings of Adelaide, and one of The major players of the Beatles Australian tour! Without Ron Tremain (using his preferred 1964 spelling), the Beatles simply would not have visited Adelaide. That’s a fact. Ron was the driving force in the Adelaide youth movement, establishing the Princeton Club and as editor of the brilliant Young Modern magazine. It was Ron’s instigation via his then father-in-law Tom Morris, who was one of the marketing men at John Martin’s, that the whole deal snowballed and it was literally Ron who negotiated the deal directly with Kenn Brodziak in Melbourne (one of the Australian tour co-promoters). The rest is history. The biggest crowd in the world stepped out to greet the Beatles on their arrival in Adelaide on Friday 12 June 1964. 300,000 Beatles fans can’t be wrong. Thank you Ron Tremain. RIP ❤️

11/03/2026

A resounding recommendation by the world's acknowledged authority on the Beatles, Mark Lewisohn, for When We Was Fab: Inside the Beatles Australasian Tour 1964, by Greg Armstrong and Andy Neil. Our 2nd edition (released in both a flexi-bound paperback and a special leatherette/gold-embossed collector's edition) are currently available worldwide, and they're moving fast.

If you love deep research, masses of previously unpublished photos, tour documents & press clippings (It's jam-packed with 1,000 illustrations), then don't miss out.

It's available Here, There and Everywhere:
https://linktr.ee/whenwewasfab

https://youtu.be/cpitANm94QA?si=GnkaN7kS3zRMZ5Bm&t=1501

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In a wide-ranging interview, Beatles historian and researcher Mark Lewisohn talks with veteran Beatles reporter Steve Marinucci about his recently released f...

04/01/2026

Congratulations to our Fab co-author, Greg Armstrong, and his buddies Gary Lally and David White, on 30 years as part of the Let It Be Beatles team. Well done on such an amazing achievement boys! fans

22/12/2025

Our good friends at Vicious Sloth Collectables have some copies of the new edition, available with a bonus bookplate, signed by both authors. They are one of the finest collectors shops in the world, so these will be snapped up quickly. Don’t miss out!