March 3rd – On This Day In Beatles History

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 9:09 am

1961 – The Beatles perform at St. John’s Hall, Bootle.

1962 – The Beatles perform a nighttime show at the Cavern Club, Liverpool.

1963 – The Beatles perform at the Gaumont Cinema, Hanley, Staffordshire, on the final night of the Helen Shapiro tour. After starting the tour as the opening act at the bottom of the bill, The Beatles have worked their way up to closing the first-half of each show.

1964 – The Beatles continue filming for “A Hard Day’s Night” (as yet untitled), aboard a train headed to Minehead and back.

1967 – The Beatles in the recording studio, Studio Two, EMI’s Abbey Road Studios, London. Working on the song “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Four french horn players (James Buck, Neil Sanders, Tony Randall, and John Burden) are brought into the studio to record overdubs. John Lennon secretly records the musicians’ conversation for his personal tape archive (which he was compiling for use in his experimental works). Later in the session, George Harrison overdubs a distorted lead guitar solo.

1971 – The Beatles are no longer banned from radio play by the South African Broadcasting Corporation. The ban had been in effect since August 8, 1966, in response to the John Lennon “Beatles bigger than Jesus” controversy. However, the lifting of the ban does not extend to John Lennon’s compositions, vocals, or solo work, which remain banned.

Cover of Concert for Bangla Desh

1973 – George Harrison’s album “The Concert for Bangla Desh” is awarded the Grammy for 1972 Album of the Year.

1991 – George Harrison takes the stage at a convention of George Formby fans at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens. Playing a ukulele, he sings Formby’s “In My Little Snapshot Album.”