{"id":486176,"date":"2026-03-20T17:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486176\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:09:09","slug":"gloucesters-regal-the-pub-the-beatles-once-played-turns-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486176\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloucester&#8217;s Regal, the pub the Beatles once played turns 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fans of cinema and live music have gathered to celebrate the 70th anniversary of a city pub which was once a bustling theatre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Regal in Gloucester opened its doors on 19 March 1956 and quickly became a hub of glitz and glamour, welcoming acts such as the Beatles, Cliff Richard, Lonnie Donegan and The Walker Brothers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is also the backdrop for fond memories of going to the pictures for many, with E.T. and Star Wars among the films shown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I love to get up on the stage and have my ham, egg, and chips where the Beatles were,&#8221; Lorraine Campbell, who organised the party with her husband, Ross, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans of cinema and live music have gathered to celebrate the 70th anniversary of a city pub which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-486176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}