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* Beatles Dates *
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* By Victor Munoz *
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GENERAL FEATURES
Since 1987---when I became a Beatles' fan---I've been collecting
all kinds of Beatles-related dates. Of course, at first it was a
chaotic process, but eventually I decided to put some order into
this, which led me to fill many pages with the stuff I had gathered.
In 1994 I took a new step, and started to put my hand-written notes
into files, which I've regularly been posting to rec.music.beatles
since then.
These words should explain what you will find here: a huge amount
of dates, most of them directly related to the Beatles (recording
dates, live performances, trips, etc.), and some bearing rather
tangential relation with them (birth or death dates of musicians who
played with or inspired them, specific details of Brian Epstein's
life, release dates of records by Apple artists, etc.). I've
obsessively preserved them all, for the sake of completeness. Our
main interest is the Fabs, of course, and it may seem (and maybe it
is) absurd not to focus our attention on them, but as you learn more
about them it is progressively hard to keep the right order of
events, specially because not all books give precise dates, and in
those cases tangential facts may help, just as a frame of reference.
So, in case they are needed, I prefer not to lose information for
myself, nor to hide it to others, and every date has been written.
The style is very laconic. I've made no attempt to explain the
background nor the consequences of any registered date. The dates
themselves should tell a consistent story, and many other and better
sources are available if a more literary style is needed.
RANGE OF DATES
The major and most interesting part of the collection belongs to
the rich 1962-1970 period, but I've also included any available date
since the '20s (say, birth date of George Martin), up to our days.
DOUBTFUL DATES
We all know one of the main problems on studying the Beatles is
the frequent inconsistency of the stories told about them, and when
you set to investigate such a specific subject as precise dates,
things turn very hard sometimes. I have spent many hours trying to
minimize these mistakes in my collection. However, many points remain
a mystery to me. Whenever I'm not sure about a given information, I
manifest my doubt in square brackets. I would be very glad if you
could answer my questions scattered throughout these files.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
My sources are diverse. Some more reliable than others, but I've
just taken the policy of registering *any* date I have ever found on
any book, newspaper, magazine, CD booklet or whatever. Only when
contradictions arise I've set to decide which source I should trust
more. If you discover any wrong date, please tell me, preferably
citing your source, so we can correct it. The main books I've
consulted are:
-- Brian Epstein: The Man Who Made The Beatles; Ray Coleman
(Penguin Books, 1990)
-- Diccionario de Los Beatles; Jordi Sierra I Fabra
(Plaza & Janes Editores S.A., 1992)
-- Paul McCartney: The Man Behind The Myth; Ross Benson
(Ediciones B.S., 1992)
-- The Beatles' England; David Bacon, Norman Maslov
(Columbia Books, 1982)
-- The Beatles London; Piet Schreuders, Mark Lewisohn, Adam Smith
(St Martin Press, 1994)
-- The Beatles Recording Sessions; Mark Lewisohn
(Harmony Books, 1988)
-- The Compleat Beatles
(Delilah Communications Ltd./ATV Music Publications, 1981)
-- The Love You Make; Peter Brown
(McGraw Hill, 1983)
-- Tomorrow Never Knows; Geoffrey Giuliano
(Dragon's World Ltd., 1991)
-- With The Beatles--The Historic Photographs Of Dezo Hoffmann;
edited by Pearce Marchbank
(Omnibus Press, 1982)
Other sources currently available for me are some books I just
haven't had the time to read, and the net, of course.
(I regret I have not had the opportunity to read an essential book
of dates, Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles' Chronicle, so my files may be
incomplete in some ways as compared with this standard source. I do
own it, though, but I haven't read it systematically.)
PRESENT CONTENT OF THE FILES
Since I'm constantly getting new information, even though there
are dates for every day of the year, I still have enough stuff to
up-date them regularly, which I'm doing monthly.
SUGGESTIONS TO THE AUTHOR
Please let me know any comment, suggestion, further information,
mistake found (either typographic or historical), etc. I will be very
glad to improve these notes with your collaboration. E-mail me to:
vmunoz@macul.ciencias.uchile.cl