1963 year in Beatles history

PREV / NEXT YEAR 1963

Jan 01 -- End of last season of Star Club performances. -- Tour of Ireland begins.
Jan 03 -- End of Christmas pantomime `Babes In The Wood', with Gerry and the Pacemakers. [?]
Jan 05 -- In the `Liverpool Echo', Tony Barrow announces and comments the release of the 2nd Beatles single. -- End of tour of Scotland.
Jan 07 -- Concert at the Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead.
Jan 10 -- Concert at the Grafton Ballroom, Liverpool.
Jan 11 -- UK single release: `Please Please Me'/`Ask Me Why'. -- Appearance on ABC TV's `Thank Your Lucky Stars'.
Jan 13 -- Trip to Birmingham, with Brian. Recording of performance for `Thank Your Lucky Stars', at ABC-TV's Birmingham Studios. National TV debut. During the recording, Brian meets Andrew Oldham. -- `Please Please Me' premiere. [What does this mean?]
Jan 16 -- The Playhouse Theatre, Manchester. 8.45-9.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Here We Go': `Chains'; `Please Please Me'; `Ask Me Why'; `Three Cool Cats'. -- Recording of several interviews for the BBC.
Jan 17 -- `Please Please Me' enters the UK Record Retailer chart.
Jan 18 -- Recording for Radio Luxembourg: `Carol', `Lend Me Your Comb', and others.
Jan 19 -- Transmision of performance in `Thank Your Lucky Stars' (recorded 13 January 1963)
Jan 21 -- EMI House. Promotional photographic session with Angus McBean. -- EMI House, ground floor studio. Recording for Radio Luxembourg's `The Friday Spectacular'.
Jan 22 -- First session of Gerry and the Pacemakers. Recording: `How Do You Do It?'. -- The Playhouse Theatre, London. 4.00-5.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Saturday Club': `Some Other Guy'; `Love Me Do'; `Please Please Me'; `Keep Your Hands Off My Baby'; `Beautiful Dreamer'. BBC Paris Studio, London. 7.00-8.00pm. Recording for BBC's `The Talent Spot': `Please Please Me'; `Ask Me Why'; `Some Other Guy'.
Jan 25 -- Vee Jay gets US contract to release Beatles records. -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Here We Go' broadcast (all 16 January 1963 session but `Three Cool Cats').
Jan 26 -- 10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Saturday Club' broadcast (recorded 22 January 1963).
Jan 29 -- BBC's `The Talent Spot' broadcast (recorded 22 January 1963).
Jan 30 -- `Please Please Me' number 17, 1st week in the ranking (UK New Musical Express chart).
Jan 31 -- Concert at the Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead.
Feb 01 -- Preparation for 1st British tour. -- 3 concert promoters, Arthur Howes, Paul Cave and Harold Fielding, contact Brian, vying for the chance to present Beatles shows at seaside resorts in the summer.
Feb 02 -- `Please Please Me' number 47 (UK Melody Market chart). -- Start of Helen Shapiro Tour, with Danny Williams, Kenny Linch, Kestrels, and the Red Price Orchestra. 1st Beatles British tour. Concert at the Gaumont, Bradford. Performance filmed for complete transmision on ABC-TV and, later, partial transmision on `Thank Your Lucky Stars'.
Feb 03 -- Performance at the Cavern.
Feb 05 -- Concert at the Gaumont, Doncaster (Helen Shapiro tour).
Feb 06 -- Concert at the Granada, Bedford (Helen Shapiro tour).
Feb 07 -- Concert at the Odeon, Wakefield (Helen Shapiro tour).
Feb 08 -- Concert at the ABC, Carlisle (Helen Shapiro tour). The Beatles are ejected from a ballroom for wearing leather jackets.
Feb 09 -- `Please Please Me' number 39 (UK Melody Market chart). -- Concert at the Odeon, Sutherland (Helen Shapiro tour).
Feb 10 -- Concert at the Embassy, Peterborough (Helen Shapiro Tour). -- Photographic session with photographer Cyrus Andrews at the Royal Court Hotel lobby and in and around Sloane Square, London. Locations: 1) Royal Court Hotel lobby; 2) telephone box; 3) Ford Popular; 4) letterbox; 5) Royal Court Theatre entrance; 6) King's Arms Public House.
Feb 11 -- Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm. Recording: `There's A Place' (takes 1-10); `Seventeen' (working title of `I Saw Her Standing There') (takes 1-9). Studio 2. 2.30-6.00pm. Recording: `A Taste Of Honey' (takes 1-5); `Do You Want To Know A Secret' (takes 1-8); `A Taste Of Honey' (takes 6-7); `There's A Place' (takes 11-13); `Seventeen' (working title of `I Saw Her Standing There') (takes 10-12); `Misery' (takes 1-11). Studio 2. 7.30-10.45pm. Recording: `Hold Me Tight' (takes 1-13); `Anna (Go To Him)' (takes 1-3); `Boys' (take 1); `Chains' (takes 1-4); `Baby It's You' (takes 1-3); `Twist And Shout' (takes 1-2). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham. Recording of `Please Please Me' LP. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann present.
Feb 12 -- Concert at the Azena Ballroom, Sheffield (Helen Shapiro tour).
Feb 13 -- Transmision of performance for ABC-TV's `Thank Your Lucky Stars'.
Feb 14 -- Concert at the Locarno Ballroom.
Feb 16 -- `Please Please Me' number 21 (UK Melody Market chart). `Please Please Me' number 1 [chart?]. -- London. Recording for `Thank Your Lucky Stars'. -- EMI House. Photographic session with Angus Mc Bean for `Please Please Me' LP cover. [20 February?]
Feb 17 -- Teddington TV Studios, Teddington Lock, Middlesex. Filming appearance for ABC's `Thank Your Lucky Stars'. 1st visit at Teddington TV Studios.
Feb 19 -- Evening. Performance at the Cavern.
Feb 20 -- Studio 1. 10.30am-1.00pm. Recording: `Misery' (overdub takes 12-16); `Baby It's You' (overdub takes 4-6). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Stuart Eltham; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick. Martin adds piano to `Misery' and celeste to `Baby It's You'. 1st Emerick's session. -- The Playhouse Theatre, Manchester. 12.31-1.30pm. Recording and broadcasting of BBC's `Parade Of The Pops': `Love Me Do'; `Please Please Me'. 1st live show for the BBC. -- EMI House. Photographic session with Angus Mc Bean for the `Please Please Me' LP cover. [16 February?]
Feb 22 -- This day's issue of the `New Musical Express' reports, erroneously, that `Keep Your Hands Off My Baby' was recorded during sessions for `Please Please Me' LP. -- `Please Please Me' single number 1, 1st week, sharing this position with Frank Ifield's `The Wayward Wind' (UK `New Musical Express' chart). Brian invites the Beatles to a restaurant in Soho to celebrate. -- Brian is made an opening director of Northern Songs Limited.
Feb 23 -- `Please Please Me' number 9 (UK Melody Market chart). -- Concert at the Mansfield, Granada (Helen Shapiro Tour). -- First appearance on ABC's `Thank Your Lucky Stars' (filmed 17 February 1963).
Feb 24 -- Concert at the Coventry Theatre, Coventry (Helen Shapiro tour).
Feb 25 -- US single release: `Please Please Me'/`Ask Me Why'. -- Studio 1 (control room only). 10.00am-1.00pm. Editing: `Seventeen' (working title of `I Saw Her Standing There') (of takes 9, 12). Mono mixing: `Anna (Go To Him)' (from take 3); `Boys' (from take 1); `Chains' (from take 1); `Misery' (from take 16); `Do You Want To Know A Secret' (from take 8); `There's A Place' (from take 13); `Seventeen' (working title of `I Saw Her Standing There') (from edit of takes 9, 12); `Twist And Shout' (from take 1); `A Taste Of Honey' (from take 7). Stereo mixing: `Anna (Go To Him)' (from take 3); `Boys' (from take 1); `Chains' (from take 1); `Misery' (from take 16); `Baby It's You' (from take 5); `Do You Want To Know A Secret' (from take 8); `There's A Place' (from take 13); `Seventeen' (working title of `I Saw Her Standing There') (from edit of takes 9, 12); `Twist And Shout' (from take 1); `A Taste Of Honey' (from take 7). Studio 1 (control room only). 2.30-5.45pm. Editing: `Please Please Me' (of takes 16, 17, 18). Mono mixing: `Ask Me Why' (from take 6); `Misery' (from take 16); `Baby It's You' (from take 5). Stereo mixing: `Ask Me Why' (from take 6); `Please Please Me' (from edit of takes 16-18); `Love Me Do' (from 11 September 1962 mono remix); `P.S. I Love You' (from 11 September 1962 mono remix); `Misery' (from take 16). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: A. B. Lincoln. Mixing of versions for `Please Please Me' LP masters.
Feb 26 -- Concert at the Odeon, Taunton (Helen Shapiro Tour).
Feb 27 -- Concert at the Rialto, York (Helen Shapiro tour).
Feb 28 -- Paul and John compose `From Me To You' on the artists car going from York to Shrewsbury, during the Helen Shapiro tour. Concert at the Granada, Shrewsbury (Helen Shapiro tour). -- Brian and Dick James officially found Northern Songs Ltd.
Mar 01 -- Concert at the Odeon, Southport (Helen Shapiro Tour). -- UK single release: `How Do You Do It', debut of Gerry and the Pacemakers. -- `Please Please Me' single number 1, 2nd week (UK New Musical Express chart).
Mar 02 -- `Please Please Me' single number 1, 1st week (UK Melody Market chart). -- Concert at the City Hall, Sheffield (Helen Shapiro tour).
Mar 03 -- Concert at the Gaumont, Hanley. End of Helen Shapiro tour, 1st Beatles British tour. -- Helen Shapiro asks the Beatles a song.
Mar 05 -- EMI House, George Martin's 4th floor office, London. Photographic session with Angus McBean, changing clothes. EMI House, spiral staircase to the basement, London. Photographic session with Angus McBean. Montague Place, London. Photographic session with 3 photographers, between the 2nd and 3rd parking meters nearest to the junction of Montague Place with Malet Street. George Martin is present. They all arrived from EMI House, and later went to EMI Studios in Abbey Road. Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm. Recording: `From Me To You' (takes 1-13); `Thank You Little Girl' (working title of `Thank You Girl') (takes 1-13). Studio 2. 7.00-10.00pm. Recording: `The One After 909' (takes 1-5). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham. Start of sessions for `From Me To You'/`Thank You Girl'. 1st attempt to record `What Goes On'. Failed. -- Abbey Road Studios. Photographic session with EMI staff photographers (Edgar Brind among them) on the front steps. Dezo Hoffmann takes pictures of this session.
Mar 06 -- Concert at the Odeon, Southport (Helen Shapiro Tour). -- UK single release: `How Do You Do It', debut of Gerry and the Pacemakers. -- `Please Please Me' single number 1, 2nd week (UK New Musical Express chart).
Mar 07 -- Brian organizes the 1st of the new concert series, `Mersey Beat Showcase', with The Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, and the Big Three.
Mar 08 -- The prefix `45-' is dropped off EMI singles catalogue numbers. -- `Please Please Me' single number 1, 3rd week (UK New Musical Express chart).
Mar 09 -- Concert at the Granada, East Ham. Two performances. Start of the Chris Montez and Tommy Roe Tour, 2nd Beatles British tour.
Mar 10 -- Concert at the Hippodrome, Birmingham (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
Mar 11 -- EMI House, ground floor studio. Recording for Radio Luxembourg's `The Friday Spectacular'.
Mar 12 -- Concert at the Granada, Bedford (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour). Partially recorded for today's BBC `Here We Go' edition. John gets a cold. -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Here We Go' broadcast (6 March 1963 session).
Mar 13 -- Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm. Recording: `Thank You Little Girl' (working title of `Thank You Girl') (overdub takes 14-28). Editing: `Thank You Little Girl' (working title of `Thank You Girl') (of takes 6, 13, 17, 20, 21, 23). Mono mixing: `Thank You Little Girl' (working title of `Thank You Girl') (from edit of takes 6, 13, 17, 20, 21, 23). Stereo mixing: `Thank You Little Girl' (working title of `Thank You Girl') (from edit of takes 6, 13, 17, 20, 21, 23). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick. -- Concert at the Rialto, York (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe Tour).
Mar 14 -- First recording session of Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas. Recording: `Do You Want To Know A Secret'. -- Studio 2 (control room only). 10.00am-1.00pm. Editing: `From Me To You' (of unknown take number). Mono mixing: `From Me To You' (from edit of unknown take number). Stereo mixing: `From Me To You' (from edit of unknown take number). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: unknown; 2nd Engineer: unknown. End of work on `From Me To You'/`Thank You Girl'. -- Gerry Marsden is fined 60 pounds at Uxbridge Magistrates Court for attempting to evade customs duty on a guitar bought in Germany when arriving at London Airport from Hamburg, on 1 December 1962. -- Concert at the Gaumont, Wolverhampton (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe Tour).
Mar 15 -- `Please Please Me' single number 1, 4th and last week (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Concert at the Colston Hall, Bristol (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe Tour).
Mar 16 -- Studio 3A, Broadcasting House, London. 10.00am-12.00noon. Recording and broadcasting live for BBC's `Saturday Club'. `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Misery'; `Too Much Monkey Business'; ``I'm Talking About You'; `Please Please Me'; `The Hippy Hippy Shake'. Only BBC take of `I'm Talking About You'. -- Concert at the City Hall, Sheffield (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
Mar 17 -- Concert at the Embassy, Peterborough (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
Mar 18 -- Concert at the ABC, Gloucester (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
Mar 19 -- Concert at the ABC, Cambridge (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
Mar 20 -- Concert at the Ritz, Romford (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe Tour).
Mar 21 -- Number 1 Studio, Piccadilly Theatre, London. 1.00-2.00pm. Recording for BBC's `On The Scene': `Misery'; `Do You Want To Know A Secret'; `Please Please Me'. -- Concert at the ABC, Croydon (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe Tour).
Mar 22 -- 11.03am. John Dennis Profumo stands up in the British Parliament to lie about his relationship with Christine Keller. -- UK LP release: `Please Please Me' (mono version). UK single release: `Misery', with Kenny Lynch. 1st cover of a Beatles song. -- Performance at EMI House, Manchester Square, London. Presentation of silver disc for LP `Please Please Me'. Photographer present: Dezo Hoffmann. -- Performance at the Gaumont, Doncaster.
Mar 23 -- Concert at the City Hall, Newcastle (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
Mar 24 -- Concert at the Empire, Liverpool (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour). Photographer present: Dezo Hoffmann.
Mar 25 -- The Beatles shoot an 8 mm. film in Liverpool.
Mar 26 -- Concert at the Granada, Mansfield (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
Mar 27 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 9, 1st week in the ranking (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Concert at the ABC, Northampton (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe Tour).
Mar 28 -- Concert at the ABC, Exeter (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe Tour). Partially recorded for today's edition of `On The Scene'. -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `On The Scene' broadcast (recorded 21 March 1963).
Mar 29 -- UK single release: `Some Other Guy', 1st record of the Big Three. -- Performance at the Odeon, Lewisham (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe Tour). Two shows.
Mar 30 -- Concert at the Guildhall, Portsmouth (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
Mar 31 -- Concert at the De Montfort Hall, Leicester (end of Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
Apr 01 -- Performance in the `Poll Winner's Concert', at the Wembley Empire Pool, organized by `New Musical Express'. -- Number 1 Studio, Piccadilly Theatre, London. 2.30-6.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Side By Side': `Side By Side'; `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Do You Want To Know A Secret'; `Baby It's You'; `Please Please Me'; `From Me To You'; `Misery'. 1st `Side By Side' performance. -- Number 1 Studio, Piccadilly Theatre, London. 6.30-10.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Side By Side': `Side By Side'; `From Me To You'; `Long Tall Sally'; `A Taste Of Honey'; `Chains'; `Thank You Girl'; `Boys'.
Apr 03 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 2nd week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `How Do You Do It?', with Gerry and the Pacemakers, number 1, 1st week (UK New Musical Express chart). -- The Playhouse Theatre. 8.30-9.45pm. Recording for BBC's `Easy Beat': `Please Please Me'; `Misery'; `From Me To You'. Only live take of `Misery'.
Apr 04 -- BBC Paris Studio, London. 11.00am-2.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Side By Side': `Side By Side'; `Too Much Monkey Business'; `Love Me Do'; `Boys'; `I'll Be On My Way'; `From Me To You'. After BBC session, photographic sessions with Dezo Hoffmann at mens-wear store Cecil Gee, London, and outside the BBC Paris Studio. After BBC session, the Beatles drive to Stowe School, Buckinghamshire. Performance at the Roxburgh Hall, Stowe School. Photographer David Magnus takes pictures of the performance, and at the Marble Hall. The Beatles spend the night at the Green Man Hotel, in the village of Syresham, Buckinghamshire. -- Billy J. Kramer records `I'll Be On My Way' at EMI Studios.
Apr 05 -- EMI House, ground floor studio. Performance before EMI executives, journalists and photographers from British pop newspapers. The Beatles are presented with awards. Evening. New Public Baths, Leyton, London. Main Bath Hall. Beatles live performance.
Apr 07 -- 10.31-11.30am. BBC's `Easy Beat' broadcast (recorded 3 April 1963).
Apr 08 -- Morning: John Charles Julian Lennon is born at the General Hospital, Sefton, Liverpool. John phones to the hospital.
Apr 09 -- Gaumont State Cinema, West Hampstead, London. Ballroom. 1-hour show. -- Wembley TV Studios, Wembley, Middlesex. Live appearance on Associated-Rediffusion's `Tuesday Rendezvous'.
Apr 10 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 3rd week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
Apr 11 -- UK single release: `From Me To You'/`Thank You Girl'.
Apr 12 -- Performance at the Cavern, with Faron's Flamingos, the Roadrunners and the Dennisons.
Apr 13 -- Studio E, BBC Lime Grove Studios, London. Filming appearance on BBC-TV's `The 625 Show'. 1st BBC-TV appearance. Evening. Home of Bruce Welch, 157 Headstone Lane, North Harrow, Middlesex. Party thrown by Welch. The Beatles attend. They meet Cliff Richard for the first time.
Apr 14 -- Teddington TV Studios, Middlesex. Filming for ABC-TV's `Thank Your Lucky Stars'. After they drive to the Crawdaddy Club. Evening. The Beatles see the Rolling Stones at the Crawdaddy Club, Richmond, Surrey, London. After the show, party at Jagger, Jones and Richards's flat (102 Edith Grove, West Brompton, London). The Beatles attend, staying until 4am.
Apr 15 -- John escapes to Liverpool to visit Cynthia and see Julian for the first time at the General Hospital, Sefton. He announces he chose Brian as godfather, and that he will soon leave with him on vacation to Spain.
Apr 16 -- BBC-TV's `625 Show' broadcast (filmed 13 April 1963).
Apr 17 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 4th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
Apr 18 -- The Royal Albert Hall, London. 9.10-10.15pm. Broadcasting live BBC's `Swingin' Sound '63': `Twist And Shout'; `From Me To You'. Only appearance on live concerts at the Albert Hall transmitted by the BBC. The bill includes Del Shannon, who decides to record a Beatles' song. Jane attends `Swingin' Sound '63' with reporter Tony Aspler, of `Radio Times', to give him her impressions of the show. After the concert at the Albert Hall, Paul meets Jane.
Apr 21 -- Afternoon. Empire Pool, Wembley, Middlesex. Performance for the `New Musical Express' Poll Winner's concert. -- Concert at the Pigalle night club, London.
Apr 22 -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Side By Side' broadcast (recorded 1 April 1963).
Apr 24 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 5th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Performance at the Majestic Ballroom, Finsbury Park, London (`Mersey Beat Showcase' banner).
Apr 25 -- Performance at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon, Surrey (`Mersey Beat Showcase' banner).
Apr 26 -- UK LP release: `Please Please Me' (stereo version). UK single release: `Do You Want To Know A Secret'/`I'll Be On My Way', 1st record by Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Apr 28 -- Brian and John fly to Spain for a 12-day vacation.
May 01 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 6th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Tony Barrow becomes the Beatles' press agent.
May 02 -- `From Me To You' number 1 (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Issue of `Radio Times', with Tony Aspler's report on the show `Swingin' Sound '63' and picture of Jane screaming for the Beatles.
May 04 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 1st week (UK Melody Market chart?). `From Me To You' number 1, 1st week (UK Melody Market chart?).
May 08 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 7th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
May 10 -- George recommends the Rolling Stones to Dick Rowe, of Decca A & R.
May 11 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 1st week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Concert at the Imperial Ballroom, Nelson.
May 12 -- John returns from his vacations in Spain. -- John and Cynthia register Julian. [Some day between 12 and 18 May.]
May 13 -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Side By Side' broadcast (recorded 1 April 1963). -- John and Cynthia register Julian. [Some day between 12 and 18 May.]
May 14 -- Concert at the Rank, Sutherland. -- John and Cynthia register Julian. [Some day between 12 and 18 May.]
May 15 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 8th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Concert at the Royalty, Chester. -- John and Cynthia register Julian. [Some day between 12 and 18 May.]
May 16 -- John and Cynthia register Julian. [Some day between 12 and 18 May.] -- BBC Television Theatre, London. Appearance on BBC-TV's `Pops And Lenny'. Transmitted live.
May 17 -- John and Cynthia register Julian. [Some day between 12 and 18 May.] -- Jaep Music Limited, music publishing company, is incorporated, with Brian and Dick James opening directors.
May 18 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 2nd week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Performance at the Granada, Slough. Start of third British tour, with Roy Orbison and Gerry and the Pacemakers. -- The Beatles are presented with a silver disc for `From Me To You', at the Adelphi theatre. -- John and Cynthia register Julian. [Some day between 12 and 18 May.]
May 19 -- Concert at the Gaumont, Hanley (3rd British tour).
May 20 -- Concert at the Gaumont, Southampton (3rd British tour).
May 21 -- The Playhouse Theatre, London. 5.30-6.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Saturday Club': `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Do You Want To Know A Secret'; `Boys'; `Long Tall Sally'; `From Me To You'; `Money (That's What I Want)'. -- The Playhouse Theatre, London. 7.15pm. Recording for BBC's `Steppin' Out': `Please Please Me'; `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Roll Over Beethoven'; `Thank You Girl'; `From Me To You'; `Twist And Shout'. 1st BBC take of `Roll Over Beethoven'.
May 22 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 9th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Concert at the Gaumont, Ipswich (3rd British tour).
May 23 -- Concert at the Odeon, Nottingham (3rd British tour).
May 24 -- Concert in Harrow (3rd British tour). Evening: Two performances at the Granada, Walthamstowe, London (3rd British tour).
May 25 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 3rd week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Performance at the City Hall, Sheffield (3rd British tour). Partially recorded for BBC's `Saturday Club'. -- 10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Saturday Club' broadcast (recorded 21 May 1963). -- Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian Hall, London. 2.00-6.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `From Me To You'; `Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby'; `Do You Want To Know A Secret'; `You Really Got A Hold On Me'; `Misery'; `The Hippy Hippy Shake'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. 1st performance for `Pop Go The Beatles'.
May 26 -- Concert at the Empire, Liverpool (3rd British tour).
May 27 -- Concert at the Capitol, Cardiff (3rd British tour).
May 27 -- US single release: `From Me To You'/`Thank You Girl'.
May 28 -- Concert at the Gaumont, Worcester (3rd British tour).
May 29 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 10th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Concert at the Rialto, York (3rd British tour). -- `Do You Want To Know A Secret', with Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, number 1 (UK New Musical Express chart).
May 30 -- Concert at the Odeon, Manchester (3rd British tour). Concert at the Granada, Kingston (3rd British tour).
May 31 -- Concert at the Odeon, Southend (3rd British tour). -- Signing of agency contract of NEMS Enterprises and Freddie Starr and the Midnighters. Another new group for Brian: the Fourmost.
Jun 01 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 4th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Two performances at the Granada, Tooting, London (3rd British tour). -- BBC Paris Studio, London. 1.30-5.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `Too Much Monkey Business'; `I Got To Find My Baby'; `Youngblood '; `Baby It's You'; `Till There Was You'; `Love Me Do'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. Only available take of `Youngblood'. -- BBC Paris Studio, London. 9.30am-1.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `A Shot Of Rythm And Blues'; `Memphis Tennessee'; `A Taste Of Honey'; `Sure To Fall (In Love With You)'; `Money (That's What I Want)'; `From Me To You'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. -- Brian, present at BBC Paris Studio, London, for the recording of `Pop Go The Beatles', meets Sean O'Mahoney and discusses the possibility of a weekly magazine dedicated to the Beatles being published.
Jun 02 -- Concert at the Hippodrome, Brighton (3rd British tour).
Jun 03 -- 10.00-11.15pm. BBC's `Steppin' Out' broadcast (recorded 21 May 1963). -- Two performances at the Granada, Woolwich (3rd British tour). Concert at the Granada, Walthamstow (3rd British tour).
Jun 04 -- John Profumo declares he lied about his relationship with Christine Keller. He leaves his charge as Minister of War and member of the Parliament. -- Concert at the Town Hall, Birmingham (3rd British tour). -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 25 May 1963).
Jun 05 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 11th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Concert at the Odeon, Leeds (3rd British tour).
Jun 07 -- Dr. Stephen Ward is arrested. -- Concert at the Odeon, Glasgow (3rd British tour).
Jun 08 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 5th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Concert at the City Hall, Newcastle (3rd British tour). -- Magazine `Valentine' publishes photographs of the Beatles at the swimming pool of the University of London Union.
Jun 09 -- Concert at the King George Hall, Blackburn. End of 3rd British tour. -- Vacations in Liverpool begin.
Jun 10 -- US single release: `Do You Want To Know A Secret'/`I'll Be On My Way', 1st record of Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Jun 11 -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 1 June 1963).
Jun 12 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 12th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- The London `Daily Sketch' reproduces charts of `Melody Maker' (Britain) and `Cash Box' (USA). -- Acts managed by Brian occupy places 1, 2 and 3 of the New Musical Express chart. -- Charity performance at the Grafton Ballroom, Liverpool.
Jun 13 -- The production company Gerry and the Pacemakers Limited is incorporated, with Brian one of its opening directors.
Jun 14 -- 7.30pm, 11.30pm. Concert at the New Brighton Tower, Liverpool, with Gerry and the Pacemakers, plus 5 support groups.
Jun 15 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 6th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Performance at City Hall, Fisherton Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Jun 16 -- Performance at the Odeon, Romford, with Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
Jun 17 -- Studio Number 5, BBC Maida Vale Studios, London. 10.30am-1.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `Anna (Go To Him)'; `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Boys'; `Chains'; `P.S. I Love You'; `Twist And Shout'; `Pop Go The Beatles'; `A Taste Of Honey'. Last programme of the series `Pop Go The Beatles', according to the initial plans. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann takes pictures of the Beatles during the session and having lunch in the BBC staff restaurant. After the recording session, Hoffmann photographs the Beatles `bumping' Paul (celebrating his 21st birthday) in the middle of Delaware Road.
Jun 18 -- Paul's birthday party, at aunt Jin's house, in Huyton. John has a fight with Bob Wooler. -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 1 June 1963). -- Concert at the Winters Garden, Margate.
Jun 19 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 13th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- The Playhouse Theatre, London. 8.45-9.45pm. Recording for BBC's `Easy Beat': `Some Other Guy'; `A Taste Of Honey'; `Thank You Girl'; `From Me To You'. 1st time Ringo uses his Ludwig drum kit in a live performance. Photographer present: Dezo Hoffmann.
Jun 20 -- The production company The Beatles Limited is incorporated, with Brian one of its opening directors. -- [Probably.] Dezo Hoffmann's Studio, 29 Wardour Street, London. Session of formal individual portraits of John, Paul and Ringo.
Jun 21 -- Performance at the Surrey Odeon Cinema.
Jun 22 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 7th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Paul, George and Ringo leave from London to Abergavenny in the group's van. London. Mid-evening. Westland Heliport. John boards a chartered chopper and flies to Abergavenny. Couple of hours later. Performance at the Town Hall, Abergavenny. -- BBC Television Theatre, London. John tapes an appearance as jury on BBC-TV's `Juke Box Jury'.
Jun 23 -- 10.31-11.30am. BBC's `Easy Beat' broadcast (recorded 19 June 1963).
Jun 24 -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Side By Side' broadcast (recorded 4 July 1963). -- The Playhouse Theatre, London. 5.30-6.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Saturday Club'; `I Got To Find My Baby'; `Memphis, Tennessee'; `Money (That's What I Want)'; `Till There Was You'; `From Me To You'; `Roll Over Beethoven'.
Jun 25 -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' broadcast (all 17 June 1963 session but `A Taste Of Honey').
Jun 26 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 14th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- John and Paul compose `She Loves You' at their hotel room in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Jun 27 -- Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas record `Bad To Me'/`I Call Your Name' at Abbey Road. Paul attends.
Jun 28 -- Concert at the Queen's Hall, Leeds.
Jun 29 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 8th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Broadcast of `Juke Box Jury', with John's appearance as judge (recorded 22 June 1963). -- Broadcast of `Thank Your Lucky Stars', with recording of the Beatles and other Liverpool groups, under the name `Mersey Beat'. -- 10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Saturday Club' broadcast (recorded 24 June 1963).
Jun 30 -- Concert at the Regal, Yarmouth.
Jul 01 -- Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm. 7.00-10.00pm. Recording: `She Loves You' (takes unknown); `Get You In The End' (working title of `I'll Get You') (takes unknown). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick. Start of sessions for the single `She Loves You'/`I'll Get You'. -- Alley to the left of Abbey Road Studios. During a break in the recording session, photographic session.
Jul 02 -- Number 5 Studio, BBC Maida Vale Studios, London. 6.30-9.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `That's Alright Mama'; `There's A Place'; `Carol'; `Soldier Of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)'; `Lend Me Your Comb'; `Clarabella'; `Pop Go The Beatles'; `Three Cool Cats'; `Sweet Little Sixteen'; `Ask Me Why'. Only BBC take of `That's Alright Mama'. -- Dezo Hoffmann's `A Day In The Life Of The Beatles' sessions: 1) Room 114, Hotel President; 2) Reception area, Hotel President; 3) Guildford Street, walking towards Russell Square; 4) Russell Square Gardens; 5) Rupert Street (buying bananas at a stall on the corner at 5-7 Brewer Street); 6) Dougie A. Millings and Son, tailors; 7) Delicatessen Shop; 8) Shirtmaker Mr A Maknyick's shop; 9) Rupert Court; 10) Buying ice cream at Kontact cafe; 11) 27 Wardour Street, in front of the Garner's restaurant; 12) Dezo Hoffmann's studio (to take portraits of John and George).
Jul 03 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 15th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- The Playhouse Theatre, Manchester. 8.00-9.00pm. Recording for BBC's `The Beat Show': `From Me To You'; `A Taste Of Honey'; `Twist And Shout'. -- EMI audition of The Fourmost.
Jul 04 -- Studio 2 (control room only). 10.00am-1.00pm. Editing: `She Loves You' (of takes unknown). Mono mixing: `She Loves You' (from edit of unknown take number); `Get You In The End' (working title of `I'll Get You') (from unknown take number). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: unknown; 2nd Engineer: unknown. End of sessions for `She Loves You'/`I'll Get You'. -- 1.00-1.30pm. BBC's `The Beat Show' broadcast (recorded 3 July 1963). -- The Beatles with Peter Asher see for the second time the Rolling Stones, performing at `The Scene', 41 Great Windmill Street, London.
Jul 05 -- Brian verbally agrees on the Beatles doing a tour of Australia in 1964. -- Concert at the Plaza Ballroom, Oldhill.
Jul 06 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 9th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
Jul 07 -- Ringo celebrates his birthday with relatives and musician friends. -- Concert at the ABC, Blackpool.
Jul 08 -- 1st recording session of Tommy Quickly. -- Beginning of performances at the Winter Gardens, Margate, with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Jul 09 -- Concert at the Winter Gardens, Margate, with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Jul 10 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 16th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian Hall. 10.30am-1.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `Sweet Little Sixteen'; `A Taste Of Honey'; `Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves On The Trees)'; `Love Me Do'; `Lonesome Tears In My Eyes'; `So How Come (No One Loves Me)'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. -- Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian Hall. 1.30-3.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `Memphis, Tennessee'; `Do You Want To Know A Secret'; `Till There Was You'; `Matchbox'; `Please Mister Postman'; `The Hippy Hippy Shake'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. -- Concert at the Winter Gardens, Margate, with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Jul 11 -- Performance at the Winter Gardens, Margate, with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Jul 12 -- UK EP release: `Twist And Shout'. UK EP release: `My Bonnie'. -- A new concert promotion company, NEMS Presentations Limited, is incorporated, with Brian one of the opening directors. -- Performance at the Winter Gardens, Margate, with Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas.
Jul 13 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 10th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- End of performances at the Winter Gardens, Margate, with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas. -- A contest is run on this day's issue of teen magazine `Boyfriend'. Prize: a lunch with the Beatles and attendance to a Beatles recording session. `Boyfriend' first publishes photograph from its Euston Road session.
Jul 16 -- BBC Paris Studios, London. 3.00-5.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' (8th edition): `Pop Goes The Beatles'; `I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You)'; `Crying, Waiting, Hoping'; `Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!'; `To Know Her Is To love Her'; `The Honeymoon Song'; `Twist And Shout'; `Pop Goes The Beatles'. The only BBC recording of all these songs, except `Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!' and `Twist And Shout'. -- BBC Paris Studio, London. 6.00-8.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' (9th edition): `Pop Goes The Beatles'; `Long Tall Sally'; `Please Please Me'; `She Loves You'; `You Really Got A Hold On Me'; `I'll Get You'; `I Got A Woman'; `Pop Goes The Beatles'. -- BBC Paris Studio, London. 8.45-10.50pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' (10th edition): `Pop Goes The Beatles'; `She Loves You'; 'Words Of Love'; `Glad All Over'; `I Just Don't Understand'; `Devil In Her Heart'; `Slow Down'; `Pop Goes The Beatles'. `She Loves You' is the same version recorded earlier today (6.00-8.30pm session). Only take of `I Just Don't Understand', and only BBC take of `Slow Down'. -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Goes The Beatles' broadcast (2 July 1963 session, except `3 Cool Cats', `Sweet Little Sixteen' and `Ask Me Why').
Jul 17 -- Epstein signs a contract for the Beatles to perform at the Olympia Theatre, Paris, in January 1964. -- The Playhouse Theatre, London. 8.45-9.45pm. Recording for BBC's `Easy Beat': `I Saw Her Standing There'; `A Shot Of Rythm And Blues'; `There's A Place'; `Twist And Shout'. Only live take of `A Shot Of Rythm And Blues'. -- `Please Please Me' LP, 17th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
Jul 18 -- Studio 2. 7.00-10.45pm. Recording: `You Really Got A Hold On Me' (takes 1-11); `Money (That's What I Want)' (takes 1-7); `Devil In Her Heart' (takes 1-6); `Till There Was You' (takes 1-3). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham. First session for `With The Beatles' LP.
Jul 20 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1 (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Brian parts company with the Big Three.
Jul 21 -- 10.31-11.30pm. BBC's `Easy Beat' broadcast (recorded 17 July 1963). -- Concert at the Queen's Theatre, Blackpool.
Jul 22 -- US LP release: `Introducing The Beatles'. -- Beatles' English tour begins, with Gerry and the Pacemakers and Tommy Quickly, at Weston-Super-Mare, Odeon Cinema. Tommy Quickly's debut on stage. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann present.
Jul 23 -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' (6th edition) broadcast (recorded 10 July 1963, 10.30am-1.30pm).
Jul 24 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 18th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
Jul 25 -- Test session of Cilla Black for EMI.
Jul 26 -- UK single release: `Bad To Me', with Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas.
Jul 27 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 12th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- End of English tour with Gerry and the Pacemakers and Tommy Quickly, at the Odeon Cinema, Weston-Super-Mare. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann present.
Jul 28 -- Concert at the ABC, Great Yarmouth.
Jul 29 -- 4pm. Washington Hotel, London. 32 photographs taken by `Radio Times' photographer Don Smith in a bedroom. Later, photo session with Marc Sharratt on the hotel roof, and individual photos (order: George, Ringo, John, Paul).
Jul 30 -- Studio 2. 10.00am-1.30pm. Recording: `Please Mister Postman' (takes 1-9); `It Won't Be Long' (takes 1-10). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham. -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 10 July 1963, 1.30-3.30pm). -- The Playhouse Theatre, London. Much earlier than 5.30-6.30pm, the contracted time. Recording for BBC's `Saturday Club': `Long Tall Sally'; `She Loves You'; `Glad All Over'; `Twist And Shout'; `You Really Got A Hold On Me'; `I'll Get You'. -- Studio 2. 5.00-11.00pm. Recording: `Money (That's What I Want)' (piano test, plus takes 8-14); `Till There Was You' [re-make] (takes 4-8); `Roll Over Beethoven' (takes 1-8); `It Won't Be Long' (takes 11-23); `All My Loving' (takes 1-14). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham. -- UK single release: `Tip Of My Tongue', Tommy Quickly's debut.
Aug 01 -- The Playhouse Theatre, Manchester. 1.30-4.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `Ooh! My Soul'; `Don't Ever Change'; `Twist And Shout'; `She Loves You'; `Anna (Go To Him)'; `A Shot Of Rythm And Blues'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. -- The Playhouse Theatre, Manchester. 4.00-6.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `From Me To You'; `I'll Get You'; `Money (That's What I Want)'; `There's A Place'; `Honey Don't'; `Roll Over Beethoven'; `Lucille'; `Baby It's You'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. -- 1st issue of `The Beatles Monthly Book', published by Sean O'Mahony. -- Concert at Southport.
Aug 02 -- It is reported that the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, have sold, in the UK only, over 2.5 million records in 6 months. -- Concert at the Grafton Ballroom, Liverpool. Provisional timings: 7.30-8.30. Chick Graham and the Coasters. 8.30-9.30. Sonny Webb and the Cascades. 9.30-10.00. The Beatles. 10.00-11.00. The Undertakers. 11.00-11.30. The Beatles. 11.30-12.30. The Dennisons.
Aug 03 -- Stephen Ward dies of overdoseof Nembutal. -- Performance at the Cavern, with the Mersey Beats, The Escorts, The Road Runners, The Sapphires, and Johnny Ringo & The Colts. Last Beatles performance at the Cavern Club. -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 13th week (UK `Record Retailer' chart). -- UK single release: `Hello Little Girl', with the Fourmost.
Aug 04 -- Concert at the Queens Theatre, Blackpool.
Aug 05 -- Performance on the `A Twist And Shout Dance' Festival, at the Abbotsfield Park, Urmston, Manchester, with Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, the Dennisons, and Johnny Martin and the Tremors. 11.30am. Opening of the Festival.
Aug 06 -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 16 July 1963, 3.00-5.00pm). -- NEMS Enterprises, Brian and a staff of 3 move to new premises in Liverpool, at 24 Moonfields. -- Concert at the St Helier Springfield Ballroom, Jersey.
Aug 07 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 20th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Concert at the St Helier Springfield Ballroom, Jersey.
Aug 08 -- Yoko's daughter, Kyoko Cox, is born. -- Concert at the St Helier Springfield Ballroom, Jersey.
Aug 09 -- Concert at the St Helier Springfield Ballroom, Jersey.
Aug 10 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 14th week (UK `Record Retailer' chart).
Aug 11 -- Concert at the ABC, Blackpool.
Aug 12 -- Concert at the Odeon, Llandudno, with Tommy Quickly and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Aug 13 -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' is broadcast (recorded 16 July 1963, 6.00-8.30pm). -- Concert at the Odeon, Llandudno, with Tommy Quickly and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Aug 14 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 21st week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Concert at the Odeon, Llandudno, with Tommy Quickly, and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Aug 15 -- Concert at the Odeon, Llandudno, with Tommy Quickly, and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Aug 16 -- The weekly musical newspapers announce details of the first joint tour promotion by Brian Epstein and Arthur Howes. -- Concert at the Odeon, Llandudno, with Tommy Quickly, and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Aug 17 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 15th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Concert at the Odeon, Llandudno, with Tommy Quickly, and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Aug 18 -- Concert at the Princess Theatre, Torquay.
Aug 19 -- Concert at the Gaumont, Bournemouth, with Tommy Quickly, and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas. -- Appearance on Granada TV's `Scene at 6:30'.
Aug 20 -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 16 July 1963, 8.45-10.50pm). -- Concert at the Gaumont, Bournemouth, with Tommy Quickly, and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Aug 21 -- Studio 3 (control room only). 10.00am-1.00pm, 2.00-5.30pm. Editing: `Money (That's What I Want)' (of takes 6, 7); `You Really Got A Hold On Me' (of takes 7, 10, 11); `Roll Over Beethoven' (of takes 7, 8); `It Won't Be Long' (of takes 17, 21). Mono mixing: `Devil In Her Heart' (from take 6); `Money (That's What I Want)' (from edit of takes 6, 7); `You Really Got A Hold On Me' (from edit of takes 7, 10, 11); `Please Mister Postman' (from take 9); `Till There Was You' (from take 8); `Roll Over Beethoven' (from edit of takes 7, 8); `All My Loving' (from take 14); `It Won't Be Long' (from edit of takes 17, 21). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick. -- `Please Please Me' LP, 22nd week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Concert at the Gaumont, Bournemouth, with Tommy Quickly and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Aug 22 -- It is announced that 500 000 advance orders have been received for the next British Beatles single (`She Loves You'/`I'll Get You'). -- Concert at the Gaumont, Bournemouth, with Tommy Quickly and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Aug 23 -- UK single release: `She Loves You'/`I'll Get You'. -- Concert at the Gaumont, Bournemouth, with Tommy Quickly and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Aug 24 -- `Please Please Me' LP, number 1, 16th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- 10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Saturday Club' broadcast (recorded 30 July 1963). -- Concert at the Gaumont, Bournemouth, with Tommy Quickly and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas. -- Appearance on ABC-TV's `Thank Your Lucky Stars'.
Aug 25 -- Concert at the Queen's Theatre, Blackpool.
Aug 26 -- Concert at the Odeon Cinema, Southport. Support acts: Tommy Quickly, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Cilla Black (making her first major appearance on stage).
Aug 27 -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 1 August 1963, 1.30-4.00pm). -- Concert at the Odeon Cinema, Southport, with Tommy Quickly and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
Aug 28 -- First recording session of Cilla Black, at EMI Studios. -- `Please Please Me' LP, 23rd week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Concert at the Odeon Cinema, Southport, with Tommy Quickly and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
Aug 29 -- Concert at the Odeon Cinema, Southport, with Tommy Quickly and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
Aug 30 -- UK single release: `Hello Little Girl', with The Fourmost. -- It is announced that Gerry and the Pacemakers will star in a Christmas pantomime, `Babes In The Wood'. It will be promoted by Brian with Joe Collins. -- Concert at the Odeon Cinema, Southport, with Tommy Quickly and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
Aug 31 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 17th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Concert at the Odeon Cinema, Southport, with Tommy Quickly and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
Sep 01 -- ABC's Studio One, Didsbury Studio Centre, Manchester. Performance taped for ABC's `Big Night Out'.
Sep 03 -- `She Loves You' reaches over 500,000 sold issues in the UK. -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 1 August 1963, 4.00-6.00pm; completely broadcast, except `Lucille' and `Baby It's You'.) -- Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian Hall. 2.00-4.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `Too Much Monkey Business'; `Love Me Do'; `She Loves You'; `I'll Get You'; `A Taste Of Honey'; `The Hippy Hippy Shake'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. -- Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian Hall. 5.00-7.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `Chains'; `You Really Got A Hold On Me'; `Misery'; `Lucille'; `From Me To You'; `Boys'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. -- Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian Hall. 8.00-10.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `She Loves You'; `Ask Me Why'; `Devil In Her Heart'; `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Sure To Fall (In Love With You)'; `Twist And Shout'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. `She Loves You' is the same version recorded earlier this day (3 September 1963 2.00-4.30pm session). Last performance for `Pop Go The Beatles'. -- Concert at the Queen's Theatre, Blackpool.
Sep 04 -- Concert at the Gaumont, Worcester. -- `She Loves You' number 1, 1st week in the ranking (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 24th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
Sep 05 -- Concert at the Gaumont, Taunton.
Sep 06 -- UK EP release: `The Beatles' Hits'. -- Concert at the Odeon, Luton. -- `The Beatles Christmas Show' is announced. -- Brian signs his first girl singer, Cilla Black. At his home, 380 Scotland Road, Liverpool, her father is convinced by Brian of the convenience of her changing her artistic surname to `Black'.
Sep 07 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 18th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Concert at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon, Surrey. -- Broadcast of ABC-TV's `Big Night Out', with performance recorded 1 September 1963. -- The Playhouse Theatre, London. 1.00-4.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Saturday Club': `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Memphis, Tennessee'; `Happy Birthday Saturday Club'; `I'll Get You'; `She Loves You'; `Lucille'. Recording for the 5th anniversary edition of `Saturday Club'. -- 28 Maitland Court, home address of Donald Zec. The Beatles are interviewed by Donald Zec (published on the `Daily Mirror', 10 September 1963). [8, 9 September 1963?]
Sep 08 -- Concert at the ABC Theatre, Blackpool. -- 28 Maitland Court, home address of Donald Zec. The Beatles are interviewed by Donald Zec (published on the `Daily Mirror', 10 September 1963). [7, 9 September 1963?]
Sep 09 -- 28 Maitland Court, home address of Donald Zec. The Beatles are interviewed by Donald Zec (published on the `Daily Mirror', 10 September 1963). [7, 8 September 1963?]
Sep 10 -- Savoy Hotel. Luncheon hosted by the Variety Club Of Great Britain. The Beatles are awarded `Best Vocal Disc Of The Year' (`From Me To You'), as voted by readers of `Melody Maker'. After the luncheon, the Beatles, Billy J. Kramer and Susan Maughan pose for photographers in Victoria Embankment Gardens, behind the Savoy. Early afternoon. John and Paul go by taxi from the Savoy Hotel to their apartment (57 Green Street). While riding down Jermyn Street, they see Andrew Oldham, who invites them to see the Rolling Stones. Afternoon. The Rolling Stones rehearse at the Ken Colyer Club. John, Paul and Andrew Oldham attend. John and Paul offer `I Wanna Be Your Man' to them. -- The `Daily Mirror' publishes the first long interview to the Beatles: `Four frenzied Little Lord Fauntleroys who are making 50,000 pounds every week.' -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 3 September 1963, 2.00-4.30pm).
Sep 11 -- Studio 2. 2.30-6.00pm. Recording: `I Wanna Be Your Man' (take 1); `Little Child' (takes 1-2); `All I've Got To Do' (takes 1-15). Studio 2. 7.00-10.15pm. Recording: `Not A Second Time' (takes 1-9); `Don't Bother Me' (takes 1-7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham. -- `She Loves You' number 1, 2nd week (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 25th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
Sep 12 -- Studio 2. 2.30-6.30pm. Recording: Messages To Australia (takes 1-4); `Hold Me Tight' [re-make] (takes 20-29). Studio 2. 7.00-11.30pm. Recording: `Don't Bother Me' [re-make] (takes 10-19); `Little Child' (takes 3-18); `I Wanna Be Your Man' (takes 2-7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham.
Sep 13 -- Concert at the Public Hall, Preston.
Sep 14 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 19th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Marriage of Clive John Epstein and Barbara Mattison, at the Greenbank Drive Synagogue, Liverpool. Brian is best man. -- Concert at the Memorial Hall, Nantwich.
Sep 15 -- Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, topping the bill for `Great Pop Prom'.
Sep 16 -- US single release: `She Loves You'/`I'll Get You'. -- Start of Beatles' vacations.
Sep 17 -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 3 September 1963 5.00-7.30pm). -- Concert at the Queen's Theatre, Blackpool.
Sep 18 -- Epstein affirms he has no intention of selling, after rumors that he has received bids for the agency side of NEMS Enterprises. -- `She Loves You' number 1, 3rd week (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 26th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
Sep 21 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 20th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
Sep 23 -- US single release: `Bad To Me', with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas. [According to my sources, this record got on the Billboard chart. So I doubt this happened in 1963. Rather I think it was in 1964 Does anybody have a clue?]
Sep 24 -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 3 September 1963 8.00-10.00pm). -- Alistair Taylor writes a letter to Brian.
Sep 25 -- `She Loves You' number 1, 4th and last week (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 27th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
Sep 27 -- UK single release: `Love Of The Loved', first record by Cilla Black. -- It is reported that Brian plans to move NEMS Enterprises from Liverpool to London, early in 1964.
Sep 28 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 21st week (UK Record Retailer chart).
Sep 30 -- Studio 2 (control room only). 10.00am-1.15pm. Editing: `Little Child' (of takes 15, 18); `Hold Me Tight' (of takes 26, 29). Recording: `Money (That's What I Want)' (3 unnumbered takes of overdub onto take 7); `I Wanna Be Your Man' (takes 8-13, of overdub onto take 7). Mono mixing: `All I've Got To Do' (from take 15); `Don't Bother Me' (from take 15); `Little Child' (from edit of takes 15, 18); `Hold Me Tight' (from edit of takes 26, 29); `Not A Second Time' (from take 9). Producer: George Martin; Editing: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick. Recording of piano for `Money (That's What I Want)' and Hammond organ for `I Wanna Be Your Man'. -- A review indicates that the Beatles have the most sold LP (`Please Please Me'), EP (`Twist And Shout') and single (`She Loves You') in Britain (Record Retailer). -- Billy J. Kramer Limited, a new producing company, is incorporated, with Brian one of its opening directors. -- Brian writes to Alistair Taylor, from Liverpool, to confirm his date to have lunch.
Oct 01 -- Brian writes to the `Glasgow Record and Mail', making clear that the first two hits of Gerry and the Pacemakers were not written by Lennon and McCartney, but by Mitch Murray.
Oct 02 -- `She Loves You', 5th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 28th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Harold McMillan renounces his position as Prime Minister.
Oct 03 -- Studio 2. 7.00-10.00pm. Recording: `I Wanna Be Your Man' (takes 14-15); `Little Child' (takes 19-21). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: unknown.
Oct 04 -- Television House. Performance for Associated-Rediffusion's `Ready, Steady, Go!', transmitted live.
Oct 05 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 22nd week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- 10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Saturday Club' broadcast (recorded 7 September 1963). -- Concert at the Concert Hall, Glasgow.
Oct 06 -- Concert at the Regal, Kircaldy.
Oct 07 -- Date proposed by Brian to Alistair Taylor to have lunch together. -- Concert at the Caird Hall, Dundee. -- [Some day between 7-13 October.] Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play `A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum'.
Oct 08 -- [Some day between 7-13 October.] Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play `A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum'.
Oct 09 -- `She Loves You', 6th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 29th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- BBC Paris Studio, London. 10.00-11.00pm. Recording for BBC's `The Ken Dodd Show': `She Loves You'. -- Broadcast of `The Mersey Sound' [`The Mersey Beat'?], television BBC documentary. It includes images and an interview with Brian. -- [Some day between 7-13 October.] Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play `A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum'. -- Recording for BBC's `The Public Ear'. -- (After 8 October's midnight.) The Beatles see a Ronald Kirk performance at the Ronnie Scott Club, London.
Oct 10 -- [Some day between 7-13 October.] Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play `A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum'.
Oct 11 -- [Some day between 7-13 October.] Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play `A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum'. -- Concert at the Stoke Trentham Gardens, Stoke-on-Trent.
Oct 12 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 23rd week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- [Some day between 7-13 October.] Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play `A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum'.
Oct 13 -- Evening: Performance on BBC-TV's `Sunday Night at the London Palladium'. Brian attends. -- [Some day between 7-13 October.] Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play `A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum'.
Oct 14 -- Photographs of the London Palladium performance are published on the front pages of every London newspaper.
Oct 15 -- Concert at the Floral, Southport. -- 57 Green Street, London. 4.30pm. Session with `The Beatles Book' photographer Leslie Bryce. 2 shots, in the staircase.
Oct 16 -- `She Loves You', 7th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 30th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Bernard Delfont announces the Beatles will perform at the Royal Command Performance. -- Evening: Concert at the Floral Hall, Southport. -- The Playhouse Theatre, London. 9.00-10.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Easy Beat': `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Love Me Do'; `Please Please Me'; `From Me To You'; `She Loves You'. Last BBC performance of `Love Me Do' and `Please Please Me'.
Oct 17 -- Lunch with the winners (Karen, Anne, Vicky, Susan) of competition in the teen magazine `Boyfriend' at the restaurant Old Vienna. -- Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm, 7.00-10.00pm. Recording: `The Beatles' Christmas Record' (unnumbered takes); `You Really Got A Hold On Me' (take 12); `I Want To Hold Your Hand' (takes 1-17); `This Boy' (takes 1-17). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick. First Christmas record. First session for `I Want To Hold Your Hand'/`This Boy'. First 4-track Beatles recording.
Oct 18 -- Concert at the Shrewsbury Music Hall.
Oct 19 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 24th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
Oct 20 -- 10.31-11.30pm. BBC's `Easy Beat' broadcast (recorded 16 October 1963). -- Recording of performance for ABC-TV's `Thank Your Lucky Stars' in Birmingham.
Oct 21 -- Studio 1 (control room only). 10.00am-1.00pm. Mono mixing: `I Want To Hold Your Hand' (from take 17); `This Boy' (remixes 1, 2, from take 15). Editing: `This Boy' (of mono remixes 1, 2). Stereo mixing: `I Want To Hold Your Hand' (remix 1, from take 17). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: not assigned. End of sessions for `I Want To Hold Your Hand'/`This Boy'.
Oct 23 -- `She Loves You', 8th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 31st week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm. Recording: `I Wanna Be Your Man' (take 16). Mono mixing: `I Wanna Be Your Man' (from take 16); `Little Child' (from edit of takes 15, 18); `Hold Me Tight' (from edit of takes 26, 29). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: unknown. -- Brian is interviewed for the new Southern TV programme `For Art's Sake'. After the programme Brian flies to Sweden to join the group's tour.
Oct 24 -- Start of Sweden Tour. Concert at the Karlaplansstudion, Karlaplan, Stockholm. Recorded for Swedish radio and for Swedish TV, through the programme `Drop In'.
Oct 25 -- Two concerts at the Sundsta-aulan, Karlstad, Sweden.
Oct 26 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 25th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Two concerts at the Kungliga Tennishallen, Stockholm. -- Broadcast of ABC-TV's `Thank Your Lucky Stars', with a performance recorded 20 October 1963, in Birmingham. -- Brian's first appearance on `Juke Box Jury', with Jimmy Henney and Barbara Young. After the show, Brian has dinner with Lionel Bart.
Oct 27 -- Debut of Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas on `Sunday Night at the London Palladium'. Brian attends. -- Two concerts in Goteborg.
Oct 28 -- Brian returns from Sweden to the UK. -- Concert in Boras.
Oct 29 -- Concert in Eskilstuna. End of first European tour (Sweden). -- Epstein accepts the production of the first Beatle film. -- Studio 3. 10.00am-1.00pm. Stereo mixing: `It Won't Be Long' (from edit of takes 17, 21); `All I've Got To Do' (from take 15); `All My Loving' (from take 14); `Don't Bother Me' (from take 15); `Little Child' (from take 21); `Till There Was You' (from take 8); `Please Please Me' (from take 9); `Roll Over Beethoven' (from edit of takes 7, 8); `Hold Me Tight' (from edit of takes 26, 29); `You Really Got A Hold On Me' (from edit of takes 7, 10, 11); `I Wanna Be Your Man' (from take 16); `Devil In Her Heart' (from take 6); `Not A Second Time' (from take 9); `Money (That's What I Want)' (from edit of takes 6, 7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick and B. T. [Full name unknown.]
Oct 30 -- Studio 3 (control room only). 2.30-5.30pm. Stereo mixing: `Money (That's What I Want)' (from take 7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: A. B. Lincoln. End of work on `With The Beatles'. -- `She Loves You', 9th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 32nd week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Recording for the Swedish TV programme `Drop In'.
Oct 31 -- Heathrow Airport, London. The Beatles return to England from Sweden. When they arrive, they coincide at the airport with the Prime Minister, Miss Universe and Ed Sullivan.
Nov 01 -- Start of `The Beatles Autumn Tour', 4th UK tour, along with The Brooks Brothers, and Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers. Evening: Concert at the Odeon Cinema, Cheltenham. -- UK EP release: `The Beatles (No 1)'. UK single release: `I Wanna Be Your Man', with the Rolling Stones. UK single release: `I'll Keep You Satisfied', with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Nov 02 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 26th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Concert at the City Hall, Sheffield (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). -- The `Daily Express' says that this mass hysteria (over the Beatles) only serves to fill empty heads.
Nov 03 -- Concerts at the Odeon, Leeds (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). -- 2.30-3.00pm. BBC's `The Ken Dodd Show' broadcast (recorded 9 October 1963). BBC's `The Public Ear' broadcast (recorded 9 October 1963). Performance broadcast on the Swedish TV programme `Drop In' (recorded 30 October 1963).
Nov 04 -- `With The Beatles' LP is cut at Abbey Road. -- Appearance on the `Royal Command (Variety) Performance', at the Prince Of Wales Theatre, London. Brian and Dezo Hoffmann attend. BBC-TV films the concert. After, the Beatles retire to the bar of the Mapleton Hotel, 39 Coventry Street, London.
Nov 05 -- Concert at the Adelphi, Slough (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). Concert at the Granada, East Ham (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). -- `Daily Mirror' headline: `Beatlemania!'. Brian packs the press reports and, in the morning, flies from the London Airport to the Idlewild Airport, New York, with Billy J. Kramer.
Nov 06 -- Concert at the ABC, Northampton (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). -- 8.00-8.30pm. BBC's `The Ken Dodd Show' broadcast (recorded 9 October 1963). -- `She Loves You', 10th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 33rd week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
Nov 06 -- Night. Performance at the Star Club.
Nov 07 -- Concert at the Adelphi, Dublin (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
Nov 08 -- Concert at the Ritz, Belfast (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
Nov 09 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 27th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Two performances at the Granada, East Ham, London (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). Concert at the Adelphi, Slough (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). -- The Beatles attend a party at the washing-machine tycoon John Bloom's house, 60 Park Lane, Mayfair, London.
Nov 10 -- Concert at the Hippodrome, Birmingham (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). -- Broadcast of `Royal Command (Variety) Performance', BBC-TV (recorded 4 November).
Nov 11 -- Birmingham. The Beatles escape from the crowd disguised as policemen. -- Brian meets Ed Sullivan in New York and negotiates appearances on his show for the Beatles and Gerry and the Pacemakers. Brian gives CBS-TV one year's exclusive rights to the Beatles US television appearances. -- US single release: `I'll Keep You Satisfied', with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
Nov 12 -- Concert at the Guild Hall, Portsmouth (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). Postponed because of Paul being sick.
Nov 13 -- Paul's got a flu. Hour after hour, bullettins report his condition. -- Concert at the ABC, Plymouth (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). -- Re-broadcasting of `The Mersey Sound', BBC-TV documentary. -- `She Loves You', 11th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 34th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
Nov 14 -- Concert at the ABC, Exeter (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
Nov 15 -- Concert at the Colston Hall, Bristol (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). -- Start of the first tour promoted jointly by Epstein and Arthur Howes, at the Odeon Cinema, Luton, featuring Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, supported by Johnny Kid and the Pirates, the Caravelles, Tommy Quickly, the Fourmost, and Houston Wells and the Marksmen. -- US release: `Hello Little Girl', with the Fourmost. UK release: `I'm In Love', with the Fourmost.
Nov 16 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 28th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Evening. Concert at the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). Filmed by US TV.
Nov 17 -- Concert at the Coventry Theatre, Coventry (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
Nov 18 -- Newspapers publish that a priest of the Church of England asks the Beatles to record a Christmas song. -- On a press report, Brian asks the fans not to throw things to the stage during the tour in progress. -- EMI House, 6th floor boardroom. Lunch, along with Brian and Martin, with EMI highest executives. EMI House, ground floor studio. The Beatles are presented with awards. -- [Possibly.] Evening: John and Paul see the musical `Six Of One' at the Adelphi Theatre.
Nov 19 -- Concert at the Gaumont, Wolverhampton (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
Nov 20 -- `She Loves You', 12th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 35th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Concert at the Ardwick Apollo, Manchester (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). Filmed by ABC-TV.
Nov 21 -- Concert at the ABC, Carlisle (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
Nov 22 -- UK LP release: `With the Beatles'. -- `With The Beatles' has already sold 300000 copies in advance. -- Concert at the Globe, Stockton (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). -- It is announced that the next UK Gerry and the Pacemakers tour will be promoted by Brian and Arthur Howes.
Nov 23 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 29th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Concert at the City Hall, Newcastle (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). -- US TV broadcasts the Bournemouth Winters Garden concert (filmed 16 November).
Nov 24 -- Concert at the ABC, Hull (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
Nov 26 -- Concert at the ABC, Cambridge (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
Nov 27 -- `She Loves You' number 1, 13th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 36th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' enters the ranking on number 1 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Concert at the Rialto, York (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). -- `She Loves You' has sold over 1,000,000 copies in the UK.
Nov 28 -- Concert at the ABC, Lincoln (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
Nov 29 -- UK single release: `I Want To Hold Your Hand'/`This Boy'. -- `I Want To Hold Your Hand' has sold 950 000 copies in advance: a new mark and gold record. -- Concert at the ABC, Huddersfield (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
Nov 30 -- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 30th and last week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Concert at the Empire, Sunderland (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
Dec 01 -- Concert at the De Montfort Hall, Leicester (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
Dec 02 -- The contract for the 1964 Australia tour is signed. -- Studio C, ATV studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. Recording for ATV's `The Morecambe and Wise Show'. Brian Epstein, Brian Sommerville and Dezo Hoffmann attend. Live performance, performance of `On Moonlight Bay' with Morecambe and Wise, and sketch. Evening: Performance at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, for the Stars Organization for Spastics. Last cabaret performance. Brian attends.
Dec 03 -- Concert at the Guild Hall, Portsmouth (`The Beatles Autumn Tour') (postponed 12 November).
Dec 04 -- `She Loves You', 14th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 37th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 2nd week (UK New Musical Express chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 1st week (UK New Musical Express chart).
Dec 06 -- The members of the Beatles Fans Club receive the first Christmas record.
Dec 07 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 1st week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- BBC's `It's The Beatles' filmed at the Fans Club Convention. -- Concert at the Empire, Liverpool.
Dec 08 -- Concert at the Odeon, Lewisham (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). 2 shows. -- End of 1st tour promoted jointly by Brian and Arthur Howes, with Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, and support acts, at the Capitol Cinema, Cardiff.
Dec 09 -- Concert at the Odeon, Southend (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
Dec 10 -- Concert at the Gaumont, Doncaster (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
Dec 11 -- `She Loves You', 15th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 38th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 3rd week (UK New Musical Express chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 2nd week (UK New Musical Express chart). -- The Beatles go by train to Liverpool. Appearance on BBC TV's `Juke Box Jury', at the Moss Empire, Liverpool. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann present. -- Concert at the Futurist, Scarborough (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
Dec 12 -- Concert at the Odeon, Nottingham.
Dec 13 -- Concert at the Gaumont, Southampton. End of `The Beatles Autumn Tour'. -- The Beatles have singles number 1 and 2; EPs number 1, 2 and 3; and LPs number 1 and 2 (UK Record Retailer chart). -- The club `Ad Lib' opens at 7 Leicester Place, London.
Dec 14 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 2nd week (UK Record Retailer chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1 (UK Record Retailer chart [?]). -- Southern Area Fan Club Convention, Wimbledon Palais, Wimbledon, London. Afternoon. Beatles greeting each fan attending, at the bar. Evening. Concert. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann present. 1st time crowd barriers are used for a Beatles concert.
Dec 17 -- Being an hour early for today's BBC session, the Beatles buy clothes at Simpson's, 203 Piccadilly, London. [18 December?] -- The Playhouse Theatre, London. 3.00-6.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Saturday Club': `All I Want For Christmas'; `All My Loving'; `This Boy'; `I Want To Hold Your Hand'; `Till There Was You'; `Roll Over Beethoven'; `She Loves You'; `Crimble Medley'. Christmas special edition.
Dec 18 -- `She Loves You', 16th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 39th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 4th week (UK New Musical Express chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 3rd week (UK New Musical Express chart). -- Being an hour early for today's BBC session, the Beatles buy clothes at Simpson's, 203 Piccadilly, London. [17 December?] -- BBC Paris Studio, London. 7.00-10.30pm. Recording for BBC's `From Us To You' (1st edition): `From Us To You'; `She Loves You'; `All My Loving'; `Roll Over Beethoven'; `Till There Was You'; `Boys'; `Money (That's What I Want)'; `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport'; `I Want To Hold Your Hand'; `From Us To You'.
Dec 21 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 3rd week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- First `Christmas Show', at the Gaumont, Bradford, with various artists managed by Brian. -- 10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Saturday Club' broadcast (recorded 17 December 1963).
Dec 22 -- Christmas concert at the Empire, Liverpool. -- ABC-TV broadcasts the concert at the Ardwick Apollo, Manchester (recorded 20 November 1963). Recording of Christmas edition of `Thank Your Lucky Stars'.
Dec 23 -- Radio Luxembourg's `It's The Beatles' series begins.
Dec 24 -- Start of the daily `Beatles Christmas Shows', at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London, with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, Tommy Quickly, Cilla Black, and the Fourmost, plus the Barron Knights with the Duke D'Mond, and Rolf Harris as compere. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann attends. After the show, Brian hires a night flight to take most of the bill to Liverpool for Christmas. -- Start of Christmas pantomime `Babes In the Wood', with Gerry and the Pacemakers, at the Gaumont, Hanley.
Dec 25 -- The flight hired by Brian takes the Christmas Show bill back from Liverpool, in time for this day's performance. `Beatles Christmas Show' at the Astoria, Finsbury Park, London. -- `She Loves You', 17th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 40th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 5th week (UK New Musical Express chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 4th week (UK New Musical Express chart).
Dec 26 -- US single release: `I Want To Hold Your Hand'/`I Saw Her Standing There'. -- `Beatles Christmas Show', at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London. -- 10.00-12.00am. 1st BBC's `From Us To You' broadcast (recorded 18 December 1963).
Dec 27 -- London `Times' critics award Lennon and McCartney as the best composers of the year. -- `Beatles Christmas Show', at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London. -- UK single release: `Love Of The Loved', with Cilla Black.
Dec 28 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 4th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- `Beatles Christmas Show', at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London. -- `New Yorker' publishes a Brian Epstein interview. 1st serious article about the Beatles or Brian in the US.
Dec 29 -- 12.50am. New York WMCA broadcasts `I Want To Hold Your Hand' for the first time in the USA. -- The `Sunday Times' critic Richard Buckle praises the Beatles as the greatest composers since Beethoven.
Dec 30 -- `Beatles Christmas Show', at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London.
Dec 31 -- `Beatles Christmas Show', at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London.

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