1961 – The Beatles perform at Litherland Town Hall.

1962 – The Beatles perform at two different venues. First they play at St. John’s Hall in Bootle, and then at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey. The support group for the Bootle appearance is The Searchers. The Tower event was billed as a “Mad March Rock Ball.”

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1963 – The Beatles, on the Helen Shapiro tour, perform at City Hall, Sheffield, Yorkshire, playing for two “houses.” After the second show, The Beatles drove to Manchester’s Didsbury Studio Centre to appear live on the ABC Television news-magazine program “ABC At Large,” which is broadcast to the Midlands and the north regions. The Beatles and Brian Epstein give an interview with host David Hamilton. Although The Beatles do not perform on the show, a brief clip of them doing a lip-sync performance of “Please Please Me,” from their February 23 appearance on “Thank Your Lucky Stars,” is replayed.

1964 – The Beatles begin filming for their first movie, “A Hard Day’s Night,” although the film has no title at this point. The Beatles have to join the actor’s union minutes before getting on the train at Paddington Station so that filming can begin. The first week’s filming is scheduled to take place on a train. On this first day, the train travels west to Minehead and then returns to London. Because of the Beatlemania surrounding their first day’s departure, The Beatles decide to board the train on the following days at the more discreet Acton Main Line and having their chauffeurs meet them at out-of-the-way drop-off points in the evenings. Schoolgirl actress Pattie Boyd, whose train sequence with The Beatles is filmed this day, meets George Harrison. They marry on January 21, 1966. The Beatles’ single “Twist and Shout/There’s A Place” (Tollie 9001) is released in the U.S. 11 weeks on Billboard chart; highest chart position: No.2.

1967 – The Beatles in the recording studio, Studio Two, EMI’s Abbey Road Studios, London. Overdubs are recorded for “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” including vari-speed vocals and instrument recordings. By the end of the session, the song is essentially completed, although additional mixing will be done. “The Beatles Anthology 2″ includes a remix of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (Disc two, Track 10).

1969 – John and Yoko perform at Lady Mitchell Hall in Cambridge, England, before a crowd of 500. John plays feedback guitar as accompaniment to Yoko’s non-stop screaming.

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