While they were still performing live, the Beatles would regularly pull in crowds in the many thousands.
However, one evening in 1961, before the band had reached the peak of their powers, the Fab Four played a gig in Aldershot to a crowd of just 18 people. Accounts differ on why so few people turned up, however one of the more popular theories involves issues advertising the concert.
According to the book The Beatles: The Biography, the band's then manager had sent a cheque to a newspaper to advertise the gig, however the paper required a cash payment for first time advertorials, resulting in the band's ad being left on the cutting room floor.
