March 7th – On This Day In Beatles History

Sunday, March 7th, 2010 at 9:09 am  
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1961 – The Beatles perform at the Cassanova Club, Liverpool.

1962 – The Beatles record their first radio appearance, at the Playhouse Theatre, Hulme, Manchester, for the BBC radio program “Teenager’s Turn – Here We Go.” After a rehearsal, the Beatles put on suits for the first time and, along with the other artists appearing on the program, record the show in front of a teenage audience. The Beatles perform three songs, all cover versions: “Dream Baby,” “Memphis,” and “Please Mr. Postman.” Broadcast the following afternoon, March 8.

1963 – The Beatles perform at the Elizabethan Ballroom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. The Beatles headline a four-act bill of groups managed by Brian Epstein. Supporting The Beatles are Gerry & the Pacemakers, The Big Three, and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas. Two hired buses transport all of the performers, along with 80 devoted Liverpool fans.

1964 – The Beatles take the weekend off from filming their first movie (“A Hard Day’s Night“).

1967 – The Beatles in the recording studio, Studio Two, EMI’s Abbey Road Studios, London. Additional overdubs are recorded for “Lovely Rita,” including harmony vocals, effects, and the percussive sound of a piece of toilet paper being blown through a haircomb.

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    March 6th – On This Day In Beatles History

    Saturday, March 6th, 2010 at 9:09 am  
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    1961 – The Beatles perform a lunchtime show at the Cavern Club, Liverpool. That night they appear at the Liverpool Jazz Society.

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

    1963 – The Beatles appear at the Playhouse Theatre in Manchester to record their fifth, and final, appearance on the BBC radio program “Here We Go” performing “I Saw Her Standing There,” “Misery,” “Do You Want to Know a Secret,” and “Please Please Me.” The show is broadcast on March 12, with “I Saw Her Standing There” edited out of the broadcast tape most likely due to time limit.

    1964 – The Beatles continue filming for “A Hard Day’s Night” (as yet untitled). This day’s destination is Newton Abbot.

    1967 – The Beatles in the recording studio, Studio Two, EMI’s Abbey Road Studios, London. Overdubbing sound effects onto the song “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” The beginning audience murmurs and sounds of a band preparing for a performance are added, as are sounds of audience applause and laughter. Later, when the song is joined with “With a Little Help From My Friends,” screams will be added from a tape of the Beatles in concert at the Hollywood Bowl.

    1970 – The Beatles’ single “Let It Be/You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)” (Apple R-5883) is released in the U.K.

    1975 – John Lennon announces that his separation from Yoko was “not a success” and they are back together.

    1976 – The Beatles’ collected singles “The Singles Collection 1962-1970″ (EMI) are re-released in the U.K. Includes 23 Beatles U.K. singles – the original 22 singles and the about-to-be released “Yesterday/I Should Have Known Better” (Parlophone R-6013). Singles: “Love Me Do/P.S. I Love You,” “Please Please Me/Ask Me Why,” “From Me to You/Thank You Girl,” “She Loves You/I’ll Get You,” ” Can’t Buy Me Love/You Can’t Do That,” “A Hard Day’s Night/Things We Said Today,” “I Feel Fine/She’s a Woman,” “Ticket to Ride/Yes It Is,” “Hey Jude/Revolution,” “Paperback Writer/Rain,” “Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever,” “Get Back/Don’t Let Me Down,” “Help!/I’m Down,” “Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine,” “Let It Be/You Know My Name (Look Up the Number),” “I Want to Hold Your Hand/This Boy,” “All You Need is Love/Baby You’re a Rich Man,” “Hello Goodbye/I Am the Walrus,” “Lady Madonna/The Inner Light,” “Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out,” “Something/Come Together,” “The Ballad of John and Yoko/Old Brown Shoe,” and “Yesterday/I Should Have Known Better.”

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    March 5th – On This Day In Beatles History

    Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 9:09 am  
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    1961 – The Beatles perform at the Casbah Coffee Club, West Derby, Liverpool.

    1962 – The Beatles perform a lunchtime show at the Cavern Club, Liverpool. That night, they perform at the Kingsway Club in Southport.

    1963 – The Beatles in the recording studio, Studio Two, EMI’s Abbey Road Studios, London, recording “From Me to You” just five days after John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the song. Originally intended for the B-side of their second single, it is switched to the A-side with “Thank You Girl” on the B-side. They record “From Me to You” (13 takes) and “Thank You Little Girl” later changed to “Thank You Girl,” (13 takes). The Beatles record “The One After 909″ (5 takes) but none are considered good enough for release. The takes are shelved and remained unissued until “Anthology I” which includes a sequence of incomplete takes of “One After 909″ and a complete version of the song pieced together from the partial takes (Disc 1, Tracks 25-26).

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

    1970 – The Beatles’ promotional film for “Let It Be” is broadcast on U.K. television, on the program “Top of the Pops.” Ringo Starr is in the recording studio, Morgan Studios, London, recording songs for his “Sentimental Journey” album: “Whispering Grass” and “Bye-Bye Blackbird.” For “Blackbird” he uses an arrangement written by Bee Gee Maurice Gibb.

    1990 – The Beatles single “Let It Be/You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)” (Parlophone RP-5833) is re-released in the U.K. 20th anniversary release. Released as a regular single and also as a picture disc.

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    March 4th – On This Day In Beatles History

    Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 9:09 am  
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    1961 Performance at Aintree Institute in Aintree, Liverpool.

    1964 Studio 3 (control room only). 10.00-11.00am. Mono mixing: `I Call Your Name’ (from take 7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: unknown; 2nd Engineer: not assigned.`Please Please Me’ LP, 50th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles‘ number 1, 15th week (UK New Musical Express chart). Shooting of early scenes for `A Hard Day’s Night‘, on board a train leaving from Paddington Station. [Some day between 2 and 6 March 1964.] After a day of filming in the West Country for `A Hard Day’s Night’, the Beatles return to Westbourne Park Station, London.

    1966 UK EP release: `Yesterday’. Yesterday (EP). The `Evening Standard‘ publishes Maureen Cleave’s interview to John, with comments on Christianism.

    1967 Robert Stigwood signs the Bee Gees to an agency contract with NEMS Enterprises for 5 years. Michael Bullock is reinstated by Brian as Saville Theatre house manager.

    1969 Odeon Theatre, London. Premiere of the film `Isadora’. Paul attends. Surprise visit of Princess Margaret during shooting of a scene in a French restaurant for `The Magic Christian’. After,lunch of Princess Margaret, Denis O’Dell, Ringo and Peter Sellers. Paul, Linda and Heather visit during shooting of `The Magic Christian’.

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    March 3rd – On This Day In Beatles History

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

    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.”

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    March 2nd – On This Day In Beatles History

    Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 9:09 am  
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    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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    March 1st – On This Day In Beatles History

    Monday, March 1st, 2010 at 9:09 am  
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    John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Ottawa, (1969).
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    1957 – John Lennon persuades his Aunt Mimi to buy him a guitar that costs 17 pounds, sometime early in March of this year. John forms a skiffle group with friend Pete Shotton. The name The Blackjacks lasts only about a week. It is then changed to The Quarry Men, after their school named Quarry Bank High School for Boys. The first line-up of the Quarry Men includes John Lennon (guitar), Pete Shotton (washboard), Colin Hanton (drums), Eric Griffiths (guitar), Rod Davis (banjo), and Bill Smith (tea-chest bass). There is considerable dispute about how John Lennon acquired his first guitar. Mark Lewisohn and Bill Harry both claim that John’s Aunt Mimi bought it for him, but Lewisohn claims this happened in March 1957 while Harry says it took place when John was 17, which means it had to have occurred after October 9, 1957. Since the Quarry Men first played in public in June 1957, one would naturally assume that John acquired the guitar prior to his 17th birthday.

    1961 – The Beatles perform at Aintree Institute, Aintree, Liverpool.

    1962 – The Beatles perform a lunchtime show at the Cavern Club, Liverpool. That night they give a performance at the Storyville Jazz Club on Temple Street in Liverpool.

    1963 – The Beatles, on the Helen Shapiro tour, perform at the Odeon Cinema, Southport, Lancashire.

    1964 – The Beatles in the recording studio, Studio Two, EMI’s Abbey Road Studios, London. They record three songs in three hours. “I’m Happy Just to Dance With You,” a song John Lennon had written for George Harrison to sing, is completed in four takes. “Long Tall Sally” is recorded in a single, terrific take, and “I Call Your Name” is completed in seven takes. Note: “Long Tall Sally” and “I Call Your Name” is released in the U.K. on the “Long Tall Sally” EP (Parlophone 8913) and in the U.S. on the album “The Beatles’ Second Album” (Capitol 2080). “I’m Happy Just to Dance With You” is included on the “A Hard Day’s Night” album in both countries, although the U.K. and U.S. albums will be quite different. “I’m Happy Just to Dance With You” will also be released on the U.S. album “Something New” (Capitol 2108).

    1966 – The Beatles’ Shea Stadium concert, filmed on August 15, 1965, is broadcast in the U.K. by the BBC.

    1967 – The Beatles in the recording studio, Studio Two, EMI’s Abbey Road Studios, London. A new piano track is taped for the already-mastered “A Day in the Life,” but this new overdub is later discarded. Recording then begins for “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” Seven takes are recorded.

    1970 – The Beatles’ promotional film of “Two of Us” and “Let It Be” is shown on U.S. television, on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Paul McCartney announces, in early March, that he intends to release his first solo album in April, which conflicts with the scheduled release of Ringo’s “Sentimental Journey” and The Beatles’ “Let It Be.” John and Yoko undergo three weeks of intensive ‘primal scream’ therapy in London with Arthur Janov, creator of the method in early March.

    1972 – John and Yoko begin recording songs for “Some Time in New York City.”

    1975 – John Lennon (with Paul Simon) is a guest presenter at the Grammy Awards. Paul McCartney receives two Grammys for “Band on the Run.”

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