The Regal is proud to lead on a weekend festival 'Beatles Fest Tenbury: Before Abbey Road there was Teme Street...' Celebrating 60 years since the Beatles played in Tenbury. This event is part of the weekends celebrations.

Roger McGough, the ‘Living proof of himself,’ and President of the Poetry Society not only helped kickstart the musical careers of Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, but inspired hundreds, if not thousands of young poets (well, quite a few), on their poetic journeys.

85 years old and at that awkward age now between birth and death, he puts on a brave face and takes to the stage for Tenbury’s Beatles Weekend with a show featuring new poems as well as old favourites.

The show takes audiences on a journey back to key moments of his life. McGough reflects on his Liverpool childhood before World War II, with memories and poems including The Overall Winner and Learning to Read and a throw-back to the 60’s and poems of the Mersey Beat. The evening will include the poem To Macca’s Trousers, celebrating the Beatles and the blue mohair pants that were given to him by Mike McGear, his band member, and the brother of Paul McCartney when they were both members of the hit Liverpool group The Scaffold. New verses have been added for Lily the Pink which takes a playful update on the Scaffold’s 1968 classic.

As well as laughs, there will be poems about growing old; A Joy to be Old, A Cure for Ageing and Let me Die an Old Man’s Death, which aptly round up the new show.

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Tickets are £17.50 but if you buy a pair of tickets it is discounted to £25!
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