{"id":557366,"date":"2026-04-29T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/557366\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:01:09","slug":"horseshoe-pub-in-hampstead-hosts-beatles-talk-and-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/557366\/","title":{"rendered":"Horseshoe pub in Hampstead hosts Beatles talk and music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The event took place on Sunday evening (April 26) at the Circle &amp; Star theatre above the Horseshoe pub in Heath Street.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"David\u00a0Stark with Rod Davis of The Quarrymen (John Lennon's original band)\"\/>David Stark with Rod Davis of The Quarrymen (John Lennon&#8217;s original band) (Image: Horseshoe pub)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"David Stark with Steve Furst\"\/>David Stark with Steve Furst (Image: Horseshoe pub)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Godfrey Old performing at Pentameters 2021 (Image: Horseshoe pub)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  David Stark, a Belsize Park author, drummer, and music executive, spoke about his encounters with The Beatles, while singer Susan Black performed a selection of their songs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The evening was hosted by actor and theatre proprietor Steve Furst, best known for his appearances in Little Britain and cabaret alter ego Lenny Beige.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The evening was also dedicated to Godfrey Old, partner of Leonie Scott-Matthews,\u00a0who ran the former Pentameters theatre at the pub until last autumn.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Godfrey had guested at one of David&#8217;s previous talks there in 2021, performing an avant-garde version of the Beatles&#8217; Sgt Pepper closing track A Day In The Life\u00a0in his own inimitable style. Sadly Godrey passed away suddenly on Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The event took place on Sunday evening (April 26) at the Circle &amp; Star theatre above the Horseshoe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-557366","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\/557366","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=557366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}