gaiety cinema
Finders Keepers – Cliff Richard Film – Gaiety Cinema 12th Feb 1967
Judith Monk… I loved the Curzon.
Alan Esdaile… Interestingly The Sound Of Music was shown constantly in 1967 at The Curzon.
Dennis Torrance… The Curzon early 1970s Sunday afternoon tea trolley brilliant great staff to
James Bond double bill Gaiety Cinema Hastings & Guns Of Navarone The Curzon 1965
Dennis Torrance… Remember the cinema posters in the sixties. Was a family trip to cinemas every Weds night . I saw journey to the centre of the earth gaiety, looking at posters and stills outside, my earliest memory of cinemas
Patrick Turner… I was a projectionist at the Curzon when they showed that film, great stuff. Good old Gregory Peck and Anthony Quin & David Niven
Von Ryan’s Express – Gaiety Cinema & The Beatles Help, Curzon Cinema September 1965
Dennis Torrance… Always liked Frank not only a great cool singer but made some good films to
Patrick Lewis… Saw them both in ‘65’ when they came out.
Coco Pops… You’ll get the Iron Cross For This Von Ryan!!!!
Tony Court-holmes… saw then as well
Beatles – Hard Days Night film – Gaiety Cinema, Hastings
supplied by Nick Prince Collection & photo from Vinyl Tempest
Nick Prince… As you’re sharing Beatles stuff. Here they are in the above photo, 1963, I believe.
Will Cornell… Later versions of this over here airbrushed the cigarette out of Paul’s hand. Remember they figured out the cancer connection just a few months earlier, right after JFK was killed. First publicity shot I ever saw of them, in a record store window…it was a display Capitol gave the store, and the heads wagged back and forth on battery power. Alas, when I succumbed and went in to check out the stock, they were sold out. Feb ’64
Andy Qunta… Excellent! (Hard Day’s Night was ’64 though I believe.)
Mick O’Dowd… Help! was better with better songs I thought.
John Storer… Got to disagree with Mick O’Dowd on this. I was 8 when my Mum took me to the Gaiety to see this film and have lost count of how many times I have seen it since. The album of the same name is, for me, one of the three greatest pop albums ever made (The Monkees debut and Motown Chartbusters Volume 3 being the other two) – damn near perfect! Help is fantastic, but the film was a tad self-consciously hip and the album had a couple of fillers
Mick O’Dowd… That’s good John. Get’s a debate going. My fave album off all-time was What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye.
Nick Prince… Monkees self titled debut album knocked the Sound of Music off the top of the album chart, which 7 weeks later returned to number one, only to be knocked off again by More of the Monkees. Only four number one albums in 1967 and the prefab four had two of them. 🙂 xx
Roger Hewett… Agree with your comments John. I started work as a trainee projectionist in 1964 and A Hard Days Night was the first film that was showing at the cinema. I had two weeks listening and watching [some] of the film. To this days both the film and LP are my all time favourites. Both were like a soundtrack to my teen years.