FOC Member Virtual Lecture Series: When The Beatles Performed at City Park with Bruce Spizer
FOC Member Virtual Lecture Series: When The Beatles Performed at City Park with Bruce Spizer
Join Friends of the Cabildo for a virtual evening with Bruce Spizer as he discusses when The Beatles performed at New Orleans City Park in 1964. This program is provided free to members of the Friends of the Cabildo. Tickets for non-members are $10 per lecture or $25 for access to all lectures in the yearly series. The program will take place virtually on Zoom. Please register or purchase tickets for the lecture at the Friends of the Cabildo website.
About the Speaker
Bruce Spizer is a first-generation Beatles fan and a lifelong native of New Orleans, Louisiana. He has an extensive Beatles collection, concentrating primarily on United States, Canadian, and British first-issue records, record promotional items, press kits, and concert posters.
A “taxman” by day, Bruce is a board-certified tax attorney and certified public accountant. A “paperback writer” by night, he is the author of the critically acclaimed books, The Beatles Records on Vee-Jay, The Beatles’ Story on Capitol Records Parts 1 & 2, The Beatles on Apple Records, The Beatles Solo on Apple Records, The Beatles Swan Song: “She Loves You” & Other Records, The Beatles Are Coming! The Birth of Beatlemania in America, Beatles For Sale on Parlophone Records, and his latest project, the Beatles album series, which includes The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper: A Fans’ Perspective, The Beatles White Album and the Launch of Apple, and The Beatles Get Back to Abbey Road.
Bruce has served as a consultant on several Beatles projects for Capitol Records, EMI, Universal Music Group, and Apple Corps, Ltd., including The Capitol Albums Volumes 1 and 2, the 2009 remastered Beatles CD catalog, The U.S. Albums and the Deluxe Edition of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. He wrote the essay contained in the 56-page booklet included with The Capitol Albums Volume 2. Bruce’s articles on the Beatles are featured regularly in magazines such as Beatlefan and Goldmine.
