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YEAR 1964
- Jan 01 -- `Beatles Christmas Show' at the Astoria, Finsbury Park, London.
-- `She Loves You', 18th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
`Please Please Me' LP, 41st week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
`With The Beatles' number 1, 6th week (UK New Musical Express chart).
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 5th week (UK New Musical Express chart).
- Jan 02 -- `Beatles Christmas Show', at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park,
London.
- Jan 03 -- `Beatles Christmas Show', at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park,
London. -- `The Jack Paar Show' transmits a fragment of a Beatles' concert
at the Winters Garden, Bournemouth. It includes `She Loves You'. 1st important
exposure of the Beatles in American television.
- Jan 04 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 5th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
-- `Beatles Christmas Show', at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London.
-- Indifferent reaction of US critics after `The Jack Paar Show' transmision
of a fragment of a Beatles concert.
- Jan 06 -- `Beatles Christmas Show', at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park,
London.
- Jan 07 -- `Beatles Christmas Show', at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park,
London. -- The Playhouse Theatre, London. 2.30-4.00pm. Recoding for
BBC's `Saturday Club': `All My Loving'; `Money (That's What I Want)'; `The
Hippy Hippy Shake'; `I Want To Hold Your Hand'; `Roll Over Beethoven'; `Johnnie
B. Goode'; `I Wanna Be Your Man'. Only known recording of `Johnnie B.
Goode'. `I Want To Hold Your Hand' is the same version recorded 17 December
1963.
- Jan 08 -- `Beatles Christmas Show' at the Astoria, Finsbury Park, London.
-- `She Loves You', 19th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
`Please Please Me' LP, 42nd week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
`With The Beatles' number 1, 7th week (UK New Musical Express chart).
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 6th and last week (UK New Musical Express
chart).
- Jan 09 -- `Beatles Christmas Show', at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury
Park, London. -- `I Want To Hold Your Hand' slowly climbs up the US
charts. -- John declares that the slow ascention of `I Want To Hold
Your Hand' in the US charts was ``mere sympathy for British people'', and
that he didn't expect being a hit in the US.
- Jan 10 -- `Beatles Christmas Show', at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park,
London.
- Jan 11 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 6th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
-- End of `Beatles Christmas Show', at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park,
London.
- Jan 12 -- 2nd appearance on BBC-TV's `Sunday Night at the London Palladium'.
- Jan 13 -- Pacermusic Limited, new publishing company for Gerry Marsden,
is incorporated, with Brian one of its opening directors.
- Jan 14 -- John, Paul and George leave from the London Airport to France.
Ringo is delayed by the fog at the Speke Airport, Liverpool. They arrive at
the Orly Airport, Paris. Photographer present: Dezo Hoffmann.
- Jan 15 -- Brian considers a big film for Gerry and the Pacemakers.
-- `She Loves You', 20th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
`Please Please Me' LP, 43rd week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
`With The Beatles' number 1, 8th week (UK New Musical Express chart).
-- Ringo arrives at the Orly Airport, Paris. Performance at the Cyrano
Theatre, Versailles, Paris, with Trini Lopez.
- Jan 16 -- News arrive from the USA at the George V hotel, Paris, that `I
Want To Hold Your Hand' is number 1 (US Cashbox chart). The celebrations that
follow are so exultant that Brian allows himself to be photographed wearing
a chamber-pot on his head. -- Performance at the Olympia, Paris,
with Silvie Vartan and Trini Lopez.
- Jan 17 -- `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1 (US Cashbox chart).
- Jan 18 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 7th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 45, 1st week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
- Jan 19 -- Performances at the Olympia, Paris. Recorded by French radio.
- Jan 20 -- US LP release: `Meet The
Beatles!'. -- Epstein returs to England from Paris.
-- Brian is appointed a director of Subafilms Limited, a new film production
company. -- Norman Weiss of the GAC agency flies from the US to
meet Brian.
- Jan 22 -- Brian, Lionel Bart and Alun Owen go to the Cavern Club, looking
for an actress for Bart-Owen's play `Maggie Mae'. -- `She Loves
You', 21st and last week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
`Please Please Me' LP, 44th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
`With The Beatles' number 1, 9th week (UK New Musical Express chart).
-- Performances at the Olympia, Paris. Filmed by French television.
- Jan 24 -- Studio 1 (control room only). 10.00-10.45am. Tape copying: `I
Want To Hold Your Hand' (of take 17). Producer: not assigned; Engineer: Norman
Smith; 2nd Engineer: A. B. Lincoln/Geoff Emerick. Copy of rythm track
of `I Want To Hold Your Hand', for sessions in Paris. -- Brian
signs Sounds Incorporated to a management and agency contract with NEMS Enterprises.
First `Southern' signing. He clinches for them a deal with EMI, and adds them
to the Gerry and the Pacemakers tour. -- NEMS Enterprises announces
plans to move from Liverpool to offices in Sutherland House, Argyll
Street, London.
- Jan 25 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 8th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 3, 2nd week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`She Loves You', 1st week in the Top 100 (Billboard). -- Brian writes
in the `Fabulous' magazine, proud of the achievements of Liverpool pop groups.
-- Performance at the Hambleton Hall, Liverpool, with Derry and the Seniors,
and Faron and The Tempest Tornadoes.
- Jan 27 -- US LP re-release: `Introducing The Beatles'. US single release:
`My Bonnie'.
- Jan 29 -- EMI Pathe Marconi Studios, Paris, France. Late morning/afternoon.
Recording: `Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand' (takes 1-11); `Sie Liebt Dich' (takes
1-14); `Can't Buy Me Love' (takes 1-4). Editing: `Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand'
(of takes 5, 7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer:
Jacques Esmenjaud. 1st session outside Abbey Road. -- `She Loves You',
22nd week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please
Me' LP, 45th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The
Beatles' number 1, 10th week (UK New Musical Express chart).
- Jan 30 -- US single release: `Please Please Me'/`Ask Me Why'. --
Start of Cilla Black British tour.
- Jan 31 -- Day booked for a 2nd session at EMI Pathe Marconi Studios, Paris,
France; cancelled. -- In England, `She Loves You' has sold
1,3 million copies, and `I Want To Hold Your Hand' over 1,5 million.
-- UK single releae: `Sweet Georgia Brown'/`Nobody's Child'.
- Feb 01 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 9th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 1st week; 3rd week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`She Loves You', 2nd week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `Please Please Me',
1st week in the Top 100 (Billboard). -- Celebration dinner, with Brian,
at the George V Hotel, Paris.
- Feb 03 -- Brian announces his concerts series `Pops Alive!' for the Prince
Of Wales Theatre, London, 2 houses a night. Brian announces that Subafilms
will produce for worldwide release through United Artists the Gerry and the
Pacemakers film `Ferry Cross The Mersey'. -- US gold certification:
`Meet The Beatles!' US gold certification: `I Want To Hold Your Hand'/`I Saw
Her Standing There'.
- Feb 05 -- `She Loves You', 23rd week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express
chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 46th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical
Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 11th week (UK New Musical
Express chart).
- Feb 06 -- Tickets for the Ed Sullivan Show sell out.
- Feb 07 -- Press conference at the Heathrow Airport. 6.30. The Beatles and
Brian leave from London to New York (Flight 101, Pan Am). 13.35. Arrival at
the US for a 10-day tour, at the Kennedy Airport, New York. Press conference
at the Kennedy Airport. The Beatles are taken to the Plaza Hotel. Photographer
Dezo Hoffmann is with them at both airports ard during the flight. George
gets a flu. -- UK EP release: `All My Loving'. -- `New Musical
Express' reveals that Brian has turned down an 8000 pounds offer for
the Beatles to play a concert at the Madison Square Garden. It speculates
that the Beatles talked Brian out of a `big deal' with Bernard Delfont. And
it says that one can `discount rumours linking Alma Cogan's name romantically
with Brian Epstein'.
- Feb 08 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 10th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 2nd week; 4th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`She Loves You', 3rd week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `Please Please Me',
2nd week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `I Saw Her Standing There', 1st week
in the Top 100 (Billboard). -- Rehearsal for the Ed Sullivan Show
performance, at the CBS Studios, New York. -- Photographic session
in the Central Park, New York. George, sick with fever, stays in bed.
-- Start of British tour of Gerry and the Pacemakers, presented by Arthur
Howes and Brian.
- Feb 09 -- 20.00. 1st live US performance: CBS's Ed Sullivan Show. US rating
record (72.7%). Pre-recording of an additional performance for the Ed Sullivan
Show.
- Feb 10 -- Press conference at the Plaza Hotel dancing room.
-- Elvis Presley sends a congratulatory telegram to the Beatles. US
`Herald Tribune', about the Beatles: 75 % publicity, 20 % haircuts and
5 % cheerful mournings. US `Daily News', about the Beatles: Elvis performances
are nothing compared with the Beatles stage image. -- UK single
release: `I'm In Love', with the Fourmost.
- Feb 11 -- Snow storm. The Beatles leave to Washington by train.
The Beatles stay at the Shoreham Hotel. Gene Loving meets them, Cynthia and
Louise Harrison Caldwell in their suite. Later, the Beatles and Gene leave
for the Washington Colliseum. 8.30pm. Concert at the Washington Colliseum.
Brian and Dezo Hoffmann attend. Performance filmed by CBS-TV. Press
conference from the stage, before the show. Party at the British Embassy.
- Feb 12 -- Two 25-minute performances at the New York Carnegie Hall.
Dezo Hoffmann and Brian attend. British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home
and US President Lyndon B. Johnson meet at the White House. Johnson says:
`I like your advance guard. But don't you think they need haircuts?'
-- `She Loves You', 24th and last week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express
chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 47th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical
Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 12th week (UK New Musical
Express chart).
- Feb 13 -- Start of stay at Miami. Dezo Hoffmann is with them.
- Feb 15 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 11th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 3rd week; 5th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`She Loves You', 4th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `Please Please Me',
3rd week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `I Saw Her Standing There', 2nd week
in the Top 100 (Billboard). -- 10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Saturday
Club' broadcast (recorded 7 January 1964).
- Feb 16 -- 2nd performance on the Ed Sullivan Show, at the Deauville's Hotel
Mau Mau Club, Miami Beach. 1st act performing twice on this programme.
Dezo Hoffmann attends. Brian watches the Ed Sullivan Show performance at his
hotel room in Miami. The Beatles have a brief rest in Miami.
- Feb 17 -- Colonel Parker phones Brian from Hollywood to Miami to congratulate
him and the group. -- Cilla Black reaches UK number 1 with `Anyone Who
Had A Heart'. From the USA Brian sends her a congratulatory telegram.
- Feb 18 -- Photographic session of the Beatles and Cassius Clay.
- Feb 19 -- Brian flies from New York to England. -- `Please
Please Me' LP, 48th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With
The Beatles' number 1, 13th week (UK New Musical Express chart).
- Feb 21 -- US single release: `My Bonnie'.
- Feb 22 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 12th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 4th week; 6th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`She Loves You', 5th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `Please Please Me',
4th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `I Saw Her Standing There', 3rd week
in the Top 100 (Billboard). -- End of stay in Miami. The Beatles
leave from Kennedy Airport, USA, to Heathrow Airport, England. Dezo Hoffmann
present at the Kennedy Airport. 8.10am. The Beatles arrive in
Heathrow Airport, London. 3620 fans crowd the Queen's Building roof, the biggest
Beatles reception at this airport. -- Informal ceremony, at the NEMS
Moorfields office. Brian celebrates Cilla Black's number 1 presenting her
with a gold bracelet watch stuffed with diamond chippings. When Cilla returns
home, she discovers that Brian has sent her mother the biggest bunch of flowers
she has ever seen.
- Feb 23 -- `Newsweek' front page article about the Beatles.
-- Transmision of a 3rd Ed Sullivan Show performance (recorded 9 February
1964). The Beatles become the first artists performing 3 times for the programme.
-- Teddington TV Studios. Recording music and comedy sequences for ABC-TV's
`Big Night Out'. -- Party thrown by Alma Cogan at her house. The
Beatles attend.
- Feb 24 -- US `Newsweek' cover story headline: `eeeeeeeeeeeee... EEEEEEEEEEEEE,
EEEEEEEEEEEE!'
- Feb 25 -- Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm. Recording: `You Can't Do That' (takes
1-9). Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm. Recording: `And I Love Her' (takes 1-2);
`I Should Have Known Better' (takes 1-3). Producer: George Martin; Engineer:
Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham. Start of `A Hard Day's
Night' sessions. -- Mail service vehicles get at George's house
with cards and presents. -- The Beatles Film Production Limited
is incorporated, with Brian one of its opening directors. -- At
his house, Walter Strach throws a birthday party for George. George, angry
at seeing the press was invited, attacks the cake and walks out.
- Feb 26 -- Studio 2 (control room only). 10.00am-1.00pm. Mono mixing: `You
Can't Do That' (remixes 1-4, from take 9); `Can't Buy Me Love' (from take
4). Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm. Recording: `I Should Have Known Better' [re-make]
(takes 4-22). Studio 2. 7.00-10.00pm. Recording: `And I Love Her' [re-make]
(takes 3-19). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer:
Richard Langham. Remixes of `You Can't Do That' and `Can't Buy Me Love'
for the UK and US. -- US LP release: `Jolly What! The Beatles
And Frank Ifield On Stage'. -- `Please Please Me' LP, 49th week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number
1, 14th week (UK New Musical Express chart).
- Feb 27 -- Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm. Recording: `And I Love Her' [re-re-make]
(takes 20-21); `Tell Me Why' (takes 1-8). Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm. Recording:
`If I Fell' (takes 1-15). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith;
2nd Engineer: Richard Langham.
- Feb 28 -- UK Polydor single release: `Why (Can't You Love Me Again)'/`Cry
For A Shadow'. -- UK single release: `A World Without Love', 1st
by Peter and Gordon. -- Number 1 Studio, Piccadilly Theatre, London.
6.30-9.00pm. Recording for BBC's `From Us To You' (2nd edition): `From Us
To You'; `You Can't Do That'; `Roll Over Beethoven'; `Till There Was You';
`I Wanna Be Your Man'; `Please Mister Postman'; `All My Loving'; `This Boy';
`Can't Buy Me Love'; `From Us To You'.
- Feb 29 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 13th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 5th week; 7th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`She Loves You', 6th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `Please Please Me',
5th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `I Saw Her Standing There', 4th week
in the Top 100 (Billboard). -- Transmision of ABC-TV's show `The
Big Out' (recorded 23 February 1964).
- Mar 01 -- Studio 2. 10.00am-1.30pm. Recording: `I'm Happy Just To Dance
With You' (takes 1-4); `Long Tall Sally' (take 1); `I Call Your Name' (takes
1-7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard
Langham. Start of sessions for `Long Tall Sally'
EP. 1st Sunday session.
- Mar 02 -- US single release: `Twist And Shout'/`There's A Place'.
-- The `Daily Mail' names Brian among Britain's Most Eligible Bachelors.
-- Start of work on `A Hard Day's Night' film, at Twickenham Studios. Shooting
at Paddington Station, on board a train leaving from it.
6.43pm. After spending all day filming, the Beatles jump off the train at
Acton (Main Line) Station, and speed away in a limousine. -- [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.
-- George and Pattie meet.
- Mar 03 -- Studio 1 (control room only). 10.00am-1.45pm. Mono mixing: `I
Should Have Known Better' (from take 22); `If I Fell' (from take 15); `Tell
Me Why' (from take 8); `And I Love Her' (remix 1, from take 21); `I'm Happy
Just To Dance With You' (from take 4); `I Call Your Name' (from take 7). Producer:
George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: A. B. Lincoln.
Remixes for EMI and United Artists. -- Transmision in London of
the television show `The Big Out' (recorded 29 February 1964).
-- Shooting of early scenes for `A Hard Day's Night', on board a train leaving
from Paddington Station. The train carrying the Beatles
from Minehead to Paddington stops unannounced at West Ealing Station, to avoid
the fans waiting at Paddington. The Beatles are taken into the booking office
and sign autographs. Within minutes the group are taken away in a car.
-- [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.
- Mar 04 -- 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.
- Mar 05 -- 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.
Dinner at Brasenose College, organized by Jeffrey Archer, rallying help for
Oxfam's 21st anniversary celebrations. The Beatles and Brian attend.
- Mar 06 -- Studio 2. 10.00am-1.30pm. Recording: `I'm Happy Just To Dance
With You' (takes 1-4); `Long Tall Sally' (take 1); `I Call Your Name' (takes
1-7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard
Langham. Start of sessions for `Long Tall Sally'
EP. 1st Sunday session.
- Mar 07 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 14th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 6th week, 8th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`She Loves You', 7th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`Please Please Me', 6th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`I Saw Her Standing There', 5th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`From Me To You', 1st week in the Top 100 (Billboard). -- Recording
of an extense interview to Brian for `Frankly Speaking', programme of the
BBC North-East Home Service. -- 1st issue of `Gerry and the Pacemakers',
edited by Sean O'Mahoney, is published.
- Mar 09 -- NEMS Enterprises moves location to Sutherland House, 5-6 Argyll
Street, 5th floor, London. -- Shooting of scenes for `A Hard Day's
Night', on board a train leaving from Paddington Station.
- Mar 10 -- Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm. Stereo mixing: `Can't Buy Me Love'
(from take 4); `Long Tall Sally' (from take 1); `I Call Your Name' (from take
7); `You Can't Do That' (from take 9). Mono mixing: `Long Tall Sally' (from
take 1); `Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand' (from edit of takes 5, 7); `Sie Liebt
Dich' (from take 14). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd
Engineer: unknown. -- The Chilean magazine `Ecran' officially
presents the new Beatles phenomenon in Chile on today's issue. -- Turks
Head, St Margaret's, Twickenham, Middlesex. Shooting for `A Hard Day's Night':
Ringo in a pub.
- Mar 11 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 51st week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical
Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1,
16th week (UK New Musical Express chart).
- Mar 12 -- Studio 3 (control room only). 10.00am-12.00noon. Stereo mixing:
`Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand' (from edit of takes 5, 7); `Sie Liebt Dich' (from
take 14). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: not
assigned. Remixes of `Komm, Gib Mir Deine
Hand' and `Sie Liebt Dich' for the US and Germany.
- Mar 13 -- Brian flies to the Netherlands to arrange the Beatles visit.
-- Gatwich Airport South, West Sussex. Shooting for `A Hard Day's Night'.
10.00am. The Beatles arrive. They change clothes at the Beehive, Room 64.
Shooting of final sequence of the film (running to a helicopter and lifting).
Lunchtime. Crew spreads rumour that there would be no more filming. Most equipment
is loaded up and driven away. Few spectators remain.
Afternoon. Shooting `Can't Buy Me Love' sequence, at launch-pad.
Gatwick railway station. Photographic session with David Hurn for the film,
not used. 5.30pm. Beatles and crew leave.
- Mar 14 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 15th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 7th and last week; 9th week in the Top
100 (Billboard). `She Loves You' number 2, 8th week
in the Top 100 (Billboard). `Please Please Me' number
3, 7th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `I Saw
Her Standing There' number 15, 6th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`From Me To You' number 73, 2nd week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`Twist And Shout' number 55, 1st week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
-- Film from the Washington Coliseum concert is broadcast via cable TV to
American movie theaters. (Recorded 11 February 1964). -- Brian
returns from Holland to England.
- Mar 15 -- Film from the Washington Coliseum concert is broadcast via cable
TV to American movie theaters. (Recorded 11 February 1964).
- Mar 16 -- US single release: `Can't Buy Me Love'/`You Can't Do That'.
-- US gold certification: `Can't Buy Me Love'/`You Can't Do That'.
- Mar 17 -- Shooting for `A Hard Day's Night': Beatles dancing to `I Wanna
Be Your Man' and `Don't Bother Me', at The Garrison, downstairs area of Les
Ambassadeurs, London.
- Mar 18 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 52nd week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical
Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1,
17th week (UK New Musical Express chart).
- Mar 19 -- Variety Club luncheon at the Dorchester Hotel. The Beatles attend.
-- BBC Television Theatre, London. Filming for BBC-TV's `Top Of The Pops'.
- Mar 20 -- UK single release: `Can't Buy Me Love'/`You Can't Do That'.
-- `Can't Buy Me Love' has already sold 2,100,000 copies in advance: world
record for sales in advance, and instantaneous gold disc in Britain and the
US. -- Jack Good flies to London to discuss with Brian the Associated-Rediffusion
TV show with the Beatles and Cilla Black. Brian is negotiating to sell the
show throughout the world. -- Television House, London. Performance
for Associated-Rediffusion's `Ready, Steady, Go!'. Transmitted live.
- Mar 21 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 16th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 2, 10th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`She Loves You' number 1, 1st week; 9th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`Please Please Me' number 3, 8th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`I Saw Her Standing There' number 14, 7th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`From Me To You' number 58, 3rd week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`Twist And Shout' number 7, 2nd week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`Roll Over Beethoven' number 79, 1st week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`We Love You Beatles', by the Carefrees, number 63, 1st week in the Top 100
(Billboard). `A Letter To The Beatles', by the
Four Preps, number 87, 1st week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
- Mar 22 -- Private launch party for `In His Own Write' at 30 Bedfore Square,
offices of publisher Jonathan Cope. John attends.
- Mar 23 -- `In His Own Write' is published. -- US EP release:
`The Beatles' (`Souvenir Of Their Visit To America').
US single release: `Do You Want To Know A Secret'/`Thank You Girl'.
-- BBC's `Frankly Speaking' is broadcast, with Brian's interview recorded
on 7 March 1964. -- Ceremony at EMI House, London. Gerry and the
Pacemakers, Cilla Black and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas are presented
with silver discs by Sir Joseph Lockwood. Brian attends.
Evening: Empire Rooms, Leicester Square, London. Annual Carl-Alan awards dinner.
Brian and the Beatles attend. The Beatles receive two awards from the Duke
of Edinburgh. It is announced that they have also won 5 Ivor Novello awards
for 1963. A special award is made to Epstein and Martin
for outstanding services to British music. -- Beginning
of shootings at the Scala Thatre for `A Hard Day's Night'. -- BBC Lime
Grove Studios, London. John's appearance on BBC-TV's `Tonight'. Broadcast
live.
- Mar 25 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 53rd week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical
Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1,
18th week (UK New Musical Express chart). `Can't Buy
Me Love' number 1, 1st week in the ranking (UK New Musical Express chart).
-- Appearance on BBC-TV's `Top Of The Pops' (filmed 19 March 1964).
- Mar 26 -- Shooting of the final concert scenes for `A Hard Day's Night',
at the Scala Theatre, London.
- Mar 27 -- Beatles records are in the 6 first positions of the Australian
ranking. -- US single release: `Cry For A Shadow'/`Why (Can't
You Love Me Again)'.
- Mar 28 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 17th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 2, 11th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`She Loves You' number 1, 2nd and last week; 10th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`Please Please Me' number 4, 9th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`I Saw Her Standing There' number 26, 8th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`From Me To You' number 50, 4th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`Twist And Shout' number 3, 3rd week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`Roll Over Beethoven' number 75, 2nd week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`We Love You Beatles', by the Carefrees, number 57, 2nd week in the Top 100
(Billboard). `A Letter To The Beatles', by the
Four Preps, number 86, 2nd week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`Can't Buy Me Love' number 27, 1st week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`Do You Want To Know A Secret' number 78, 1st week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`All My Loving' number 71, 1st week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
-- Madame Tussauds's wax museum announces the Beatles will be the first pop
artists included in it.
- Mar 30 -- 10.00am-12.00noon. BBC's `From Us To You' (2nd edition) broadcast
(recorded 28 February 1964). -- BBC's television current affairs
programme `Panorama' features a profile of Brian, introduced by Richard Dimbledy.
Most of his artists pay tribute to him (the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers,
Billy J. Kramer, Cilla Black, Tommy Quickly, Sounds Incorporated, etc.).
-- Opening of performances at the Empire, Liverpool.
- Mar 31 -- Beatles records are in 9 of the 10 1st positions of the Canadian
charts. -- `Meet The Beatles' has sold 3,650,000 copies.
-- The Playhouse Theatre, Manchester. 7.00-10.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Saturday
Club': `Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby'; `I Call Your Name'; `I Got A Woman';
`You Can't Do That'; `Can't Buy Me Love'; `Sure To Fall (In Love With You)';
`Long Tall Sally'. Only BBC take of `I Call Your Name'.
-- Epstein flies with Gerry and the Pacemakers to Australia, to oversee their
arrival for a concert tour. -- Shooting of the Beatles performing
live at the Scala Theatre, for `A Hard Day's Night'.
- Apr 01 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 54th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical
Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1,
19th week (UK New Musical Express chart). `Can't Buy
Me Love' number 1, 2nd week (UK New Musical Express chart).
- Apr 02 -- `Can't Buy Me Love' number 1 in Britain.
- Apr 03 -- Cilla Black records `You're My World'. Brian attends.
Later, performance of Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas on Associated-Rediffusion's
`Ready Steady Go!'. Brian and Derek Taylor attend.
Later, Brian and Derek are chauffeur-driven to the Imperial Hotel, Torquay,
where they will work on the writing of Brian's autobiography.
- Apr 04 -- The Beatles occupy the 1st 5 positions of the US ranking, 15
songs in the Top 100, and positions 1 and 2 in the album chart (Billboard).
Billboard affirms that almost everyone is tired of the Beatles: disc-jockeys,
of playing their records; editors, of writing about them; and product
manufacturers, of hearing about them. -- `With The Beatles' number
1, 18th week (UK Record Retailer chart). `I Want To
Hold Your Hand' number 4, 12th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`She Loves You' number 3, 11th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`Please Please Me' number 5, 10th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`I Saw Her Standing There' number 31, 9th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`From Me To You' number 41, 5th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`Twist And Shout' number 2, 4th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`Roll Over Beethoven' number 68, 3rd week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`We Love You Beatles', by the Carefrees, number 42, 3rd week in the Top 100
(Billboard). `A Letter To The Beatles', by the
Four Preps, number 85, 3rd week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`Can't Buy Me Love' number 1, 1st week; 2nd week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`Do You Want To Know A Secret' number 46, 2nd week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`All My Loving' number 58, 2nd week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`You Can't Do That' number 65, 1st week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
`Thank You Girl' number 79, 1st week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
-- 10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Saturday Club' broadcast (recorded 31 March 1964).
-- End of performances at the Empire, Liverpool.
- Apr 05 -- `El club de los Beatles' (`The Beatles Club'), 1st Chilean radio
programme dedicated to the Beatles, is first broadcast. -- Shooting
of opening scene of `A Hard Day's Night', at Boston Place, London, and other
opening scenes at the Marylebone Station.
- Apr 08 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 55th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical
Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1,
20th week (UK New Musical Express chart). `Can't Buy
Me Love' number 1, 3rd week (UK New Musical Express chart). --
Brian and Derek Taylor conclude preparatory work on Brian's autobiography.
- Apr 09 -- Thames tow-path, Kew, Surrey. Shooting for `A Hard Day's Night':
Ringo walking along the riverbank.
- Apr 10 -- US LP release: `The Beatles'
Second Album'. -- Brian announces that Billy J. Kramer with
the Dakotas will make their debut on the Ed Sullivan Show on 7 June.
- Apr 11 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 19th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
`Can't Buy Me Love' number 1, 2nd week; 3rd week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
-- The Beatles have 14 songs in the Top 100 (Billboard). Record.
- Apr 12 -- Shooting of opening scenes of `A Hard Day's Night', at the Marylebone
Railway Station.
- Apr 13 -- The title of the new film, `A Hard Day's Night', is announced
to the press. -- US gold certification: `The Beatles' Second Album'.
- Apr 14 -- Arlington Road (at Rosslyn Road), St Margaret's, Twickenham,
Middlesex. Shooting for `A Hard Day's Night': traffic jam scene (deleted from
film).
- Apr 15 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 56th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical
Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1,
21st and last week (UK New Musical Express chart).
`Can't Buy Me Love' number 1, 4th and last week (UK New Musical Express chart).
-- Photographic session at the walled garden of Les Ambassadeurs. --
Interview with Ed Sullivan for his TV show at Les Ambassadeurs.
-- Studio 4. BBC Television Centre, London. Paul films appearance for BBC-TV's
`A Degree Of Frost'.
- Apr 16 -- Interview with Ed Sullivan in London, during `A Hard Day's Night'
shootings. -- Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm. Recording: `A Hard Day's
Night' (takes 1-9). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer:
Geoff Emerick. Afternoon. St John's Secondary
School (Church of England), London. Outside location filming for `A Hard Day's
Night': scene at police station. -- Heathsfield Street, London.
Shooting for `A Hard Day's Night'. -- `The Portland Arms' pub, London.
Shooting for `A Hard Day's Night' (scene deleted from film).
- Apr 17 -- Shooting for `A Hard Day's Night': Beatles find Paul's grandfather
at `Le Circle Club', at the Garrison, downstairs area of Les Ambassadeurs,
London.
- Apr 18 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 20th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
`Can't Buy Me Love' number 1, 3rd week; 3rd week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
-- Appearance on ATV's `Morecambe And Wise Show'. -- Chelsea Manor
Buildings (Hall Of Remembrance). Rehearsal for `Around The Beatles'.
- Apr 19 -- Session at IBC Studios, 35 Portland Place, London. Pre-recording
of soundtrack for `Around the Beatles'. First Beatles session of Glyn Johns,
2nd engineer this time.
- Apr 20 -- Studio 2 (control room only). 2.00-3.15pm. Mono mixing: `A Hard
Day's Night' (from take 9). Stereo mixing: `A Hard Day's Night' (from take
9). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: A. B. Lincoln.
Remixes of `A Hard Day's Night' for United Artists. -- Derek Taylor
becomes Brian's personal assistant. -- 1st night of a week of
shows at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, including: Billy J. Kramer with the
Dakotas, Cilla Black, the Fourmost, Sounds Incorporated, Tommy Quickly, and
the Remo Four. -- Jack Billing's TV School Of Dancing, Shepherds
Bush, London. Shooting for `A Hard Day's Night': conversation between Paul
and Isla Blair. (Deleted from film.)
- Apr 21 -- Palace Theatre, Manchester. Brian with Tommy Quickly, Cilla Black,
Billy J. Kramer, the Fourmost, the Dakotas, and the Remo Four.
-- Jack Billing's TV School Of Dancing, Shepherds Bush, London. Shooting for
`A Hard Day's Night': conversation between Paul and Isla Blair. (Deleted from
film.)
- Apr 22 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 57th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical
Express chart). `With The Beatles', 22nd week in the
Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Can't Buy
Me Love', 5th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
-- St Lukes Road, London. Shooting for `A Hard Day's Night'. Car stealing
scene. -- Notting Hill, London. Shooting for `A Hard Day's Night':
start of Ringo solo walkabout (St Lukes Road, Lancaster Road, All Saints Road).
-- Early morning. Hammersmith Odeon, London. Shooting for `A Hard Day's Night':
running down the iron staircase. Evening. Australia
House, London. Cocktail party thrown in the Beatles' honour by the Right Honourable
Sir Eric Harrison, Australian High Commissioner.
- Apr 23 -- Studio 2 (control room only). 4.30-5.45pm. Mono mixing: `A Hard
Day's Night' (remix `10', from take 9). Producer: George Martin; Engineer:
Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: David Lloyd. Remix
for the record. -- John, with Brian and Cynthia, attends a literary
lunch in his honour, organized by Christina Foyle, at the Dorchester Hotel,
London. Brian makes a speech. -- Thornbury Playing Fields, Isleworth,
Hounslow, Middlesex. Shooting for `A Hard Day's Night': `Can't Buy Me Love'
sequence. Morning: the Beatles arrive.
John leaves before filming is complete to attend the Foyle's literary luncheon.
After John leaves, shooting of sequence with man admonishing the Beatles after
`Can't Buy Me Love' scene. 1.00pm approx. End
of shooting. The Beatles leave.
- Apr 24 -- Morning. 1 Lakeside, Edgehill Road, West Ealing, London. Shooting
for `A Hard Day's Night'. Ringo and woman by a manhole. Last sequence shot
for film. Winchester Hall, Turks Head, St Margaret's,
Twickenham, Middlesex. The Beatles celebrate completion of `A Hard Day's Night'
shooting.
- Apr 25 -- `With The Beatles' number 1, 21st and last week (UK Record Retailer
chart). `Can't Buy Me Love' number 1, 4th week; 4th
week in the Top 100 (Billboard). -- Hall Of Remembrance, Chelsea
Manor Buildings, London. Rehearsal for `Around The Beatles'.
- Apr 26 -- Performance for the New Musical Express Poll Winner's Concert
at the Empire Pool, Wembley. Filmed by ABC-TV.
- Apr 27 -- Wembley TV Studios, Wembley, Middlesex. Rehearsal for `Around
The Beatles'. -- US single release: `Love Me Do'/`P.S. I
Love You'. US single release: `A World Without
Love', 1st of Peter and Gordon. -- `In His Own Write' is published
in the USA. -- The Searchers, Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas,
Cilla Black, Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen, Dusty Springfield and Gerry and the
Pacemakers promise to give their services in a series of concerts to raise
money for the building of the Pilgrim Theatre. -- The share capital
of NEMS Enterprises Limited is increased from the original 100 pounds to 10,000
pounds, with the creation of 9,900 ordinary shares. Each Beatle receives 250,
Brian 4950 and Clive 3950 of them. -- Broadcast of performance
for `Ready Steady Go' (filmed 20 March 1964).
- Apr 28 -- Wembley TV Studios, Wembley, Middlesex. Filiming for Associated-Rediffusion's
`Around The Beatles'. -- The Pilgrim Theatre Limited is
incorporated, with Brian one of the opening directors.
- Apr 29 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 58th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical
Express chart). `With The Beatles', 23rd week
in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Can't
Buy Me Love', 6th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
-- Morning. Photographic session with Beatles' wax figures at Madame Tussaud's.
Evening. Concert in Edinburgh.
- Apr 30 -- Concert at the Odeon, Glasgow.
- May 01 -- BBC Paris Studio, London. 6.30-9.00pm. Recording for BBC's `From
Us To You' (3rd edition): `From Us To You'; `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Kansas
City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!'; `Happy Birthday'; `I Forgot To Remember To Forget';
`You Can't Do That'; `Sure To Fall (In Love With You)'; `Can't Buy Me Love';
`Matchbox'; `Honey Don't'; `From Us To You'. Only
recording of `I Forgot To Remember To Forget Her'. Last BBC session with songs
never included on record. -- Gerry and the Pacemakers with Brian
fly to the US for their first appearance there.
- May 02 -- `Rolling Stones', 1st Rolling Stones LP, replaces `With The Beatles'
as number 1 (UK Record Retailer chart). `Can't Buy
Me Love' number 1, 5th and last week; 5th week in the Top 100 (Billboard).
- May 03 -- The Searchers top the bill of the first concert of the series
`Pops Alive!', at the Prince Of Wales Theatre, London.
- May 04 -- Dick James Music and Northern Songs install their headquarters
at 71--75 New Oxford Street, Blumsbury, London.
- May 06 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 59th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical
Express chart). `With The Beatles', 24th week
in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Can't
Buy Me Love', 7th and last week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
-- Performance for ATV's `Around The Beatles', in Wembley.
- May 09 -- `Can't Buy Me Love', 6th week in the Top 30 (Billboard).
- May 10 -- First concert to raise money for the building of the Pilgrim
Theatre, at the New Theatre, Bromley. -- Radio Luxembourg broadcasts
the first part of the programme `This Is Their Life', about the Beatles.
- May 11 -- US EP release: `Four By The Beatles'. -- Gerry and
the Pacemakers with Brian return from the US to England.
- May 12 -- Lenmac Enterprises Limited, music publishing company, is incorporated,
with Brian one of its opening directors.
- May 13 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 60th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical
Express chart). `With The Beatles', 25th week
in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Can't
Buy Me Love', 8th week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart).
- May 15 -- Gerry and the Pacemakers (Films) Limited, film production company,
is incorporated, with Epstein one of its opening directors.
- May 16 -- `Can't Buy Me Love', 7th week in the Top 30 (Billboard).
- May 17 -- Radio Luxembourg broadcasts the second and last part of the programme
`This Is Their Life', about the Beatles.
- May 18 -- 10.00-12.00am. BBC's `From Us To You' (3rd edition) broadcast
(recorded 1 May 1964). -- BBC-radio broadcasts `Monday Bank Holiday'.
- May 20 -- `Please Please Me' LP, 61st and last week in the Top 10 (UK New
Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles', 26th week
in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Can't
Buy Me Love', 9th and last week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart).
-- Recording of BBC Light Programme `Let's Find Out'. Brian answers teenager's
questions. Evening: Brian appears on Southern
TV programme `For Art's Sake'. -- Long Distance Films Limited,
film production company, is incorporated, with Brian one of its opening directors,
alongside Tony Richardson, Karel Reisz and other important film industry
moguls.
- May 21 -- US single release: `Sie Liebt Dich'/`I'll Get You'.
- May 22 -- Studio 2. 10.00-11.00am. Recording: `You Can't Do That' (overdub
take 10). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: A.
B. Lincoln/B. T.
- May 23 -- `Can't Buy Me Love', 8th week in the Top 30 (Billboard).
-- Brian begins a week end in Blackpool (Whitsun holiday).
- May 24 -- Transmision on the Ed Sullivan Show of the interview recorded
on 16 April 1964, and playing of a song.
- May 25 -- Brian ends his Whitsun holiday in Blackpool.
- May 27 -- `With The Beatles', 27th week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express
chart). -- Party thrown by Brian to celebrate Cilla Black's birthday,
at his Knightsbridge apartment. His gift to her is an Austrian luggage set.
- May 29 -- UK single release: `Ain't She Sweet'/`If You Love Me Baby'.
UK single release: `Nobody I Know', with Peter and Gordon.
- May 30 -- `Can't Buy Me Love', 9th and last week in the Top 30 (Billboard).
`Love Me Do' number 1, 1st week (Billboard). -- Brian buys 5 copies
of `Ain't She Sweet' at a West End record store.
- May 31 -- Two performances at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London, for
Brian's `Pops Alive!' show.
- Jun 01 -- Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm. Recording: `Matchbox' (takes 1-5); `I'll
Cry Instead' (Section A) (takes 1-6) `I'll Cry Instead' (Section B) (takes
7-8); `Slow Down' (takes 1-6). Studio 2. 7.00-10.00pm. Recording:
`I'll Be Back' (takes 1-16). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith;
2nd Engineer: Ken Scott. -- US single release: `You're My World', 1st
US single of Cilla Black. US single release: `Sweet Georgia Brown'/`Take
Out Some Insurance On Me Baby'. -- Brian announces plans for the
Beatles 1964 Christmas Show, to be presented at the Odeon, Hammersmith, by
him and Joe Collins.
- Jun 02 -- Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm. Recording: `Any Time At All' (takes 1-7);
`Things We Said Today' (takes 1-3). Studio 2. 7.00-10.00pm. Recording:
`When I Get Home' (takes 1-11); `Any Time At All' (takes 8-11). Producer:
George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott.
-- Production of the film `Ferry Cross The Mersey' begins.
- Jun 03 -- `With The Beatles', 28th week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express
chart). -- Morning. Prospect Studios, London. Photographic session with
photographer John Launois for the US magazine `Saturday Evening Post'.
Ringo collapses, suffering from tonsillitis and pharyngitis. A local
doctor is summoned. Ringo is taken to the private patients' wing of the University
College Hospital, London. Brian and George Martin come up with Jimmy Nicol
as Ringo's replacement. -- Studio 2. 3.00-4.00pm. Rehearsal: `I Want
To Hold Your Hand'; `She Loves You'; `I Saw Her Standing There'; `This Boy';
`Can't Buy Me Love'; `Long Tall Sally'. Rehearsal with Jimmy Nicol.
-- Brian is the subject of the 1st programme in a new Redifussion (ITV) series,
`Celebrity Game'.
- Jun 04 -- Studio 2. 2.30-7.00pm. Mono mixing: `Long Tall Sally' (from take
1); `Matchbox' (from take 5); `I Call Your Name' (remixes 1, 2, from takes
5, 7). Editing: `I Call Your Name' (of mono remixes 1, 2). Recording: `Slow
Down' (overdub onto take 6). Mono mixing: `Slow Down' (from take 6); `When
I Get Home' (remix 1, from take 11); `Any Time At All' (remix 1, from take
11); `I'll Cry Instead' (Section A) (from take 6); `I'll Cry Instead' (Section
B) (from take 8). Editing: `I'll Cry Instead' (of mono remixes from takes
6, 8). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard
Langham. End of work on EP `Long Tall Sally'. -- End of
shootings of film `A Hard Day's Night'. -- 19.00. Concert at the
Tivoli Gardens, Copenhague. Jimmy Nicol on drums. Start of world tour.
Recorded live by AVRO radio, Hilversum. [5 June?]
- Jun 05 -- During their arrival in Amsterdam, fans throw themselves to a
channel trying to get near ther Beatles. -- Evening: Concert
in Amsterdam, on a live TV show. Recording for Dutch television (Vara
TV), at the Cafe-Restaurant Treslong, Hillegom, Holland. Recorded live
by AVRO radio, Hilversum. [4 June?] In both events, Jimmy Nicol on drums.
-- Single UK release: `Like Dreamers Do', with The Applejacks. Radio
KFWB of Los Angeles releases the single `KFWB Beatles'/`You Can't Do That',
with interviwes to the Beatles. -- Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas,
Brian and Tony Barrow fly from London Airport to the US.
- Jun 06 -- Concert at the Blokker Exhibition Hall, Amsterdam. Jimmy
Nicol on drums.
- Jun 07 -- Debut of Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas on the Ed Sullivan
Show.
- Jun 08 -- BBC re-broadcasts `Around The Beatles'. -- Brian
flies back to London and announces that Gerry and the Pacemakers will star
in their own Christmas show. -- Vara TV (Holland) screens the
5 June 1964 recording.
- Jun 09 -- Studio 3 (control room only). 2.00-5.45pm. Mono tape copying:
`I Should Have Known Better'; `If I Fell'; `Tell Me Why'; `And I Love
Her'; `I'm Happy Just To Dance With You'; `I'll Cry Instead'; `Can't Buy Me
Love'; `A Hard Day's Night'. Mono mixing: `A Hard Day's Night' (from take
9); `Things We Said Today' (from take 3). Producer: George Martin; Engineer:
Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott. Copies for Capitol and United Artists.
Mix of `A Hard Day's Night' with extended end, just for the film.
-- UK interview LP release: `The Beatles American Tour With Ed Rudy'.
- Jun 10 -- `With The Beatles', 29th week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express
chart). -- Studio 2 (control room only). 10.00-11.00am. Mono mixing:
`I'll Be Back' (remix 1, from take 16). Producer: George Martin; Engineer;
Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott. -- Brian Epstein
Publications Limited is incorporated. -- Two performances at the
Princess Treatre, Hong Kong. Jimmy Nicol on drums.
- Jun 11 -- End of Ringo's stay at the University College Hospital, London.
- Jun 12 -- Arrival in Australia. 300000 people welcome them on Adelaida's
streets. Ringo, with Brian, flies to Australia. Concert at the
Centennial Hall, Adelaida, Australia. Jimmy Nicol on drums. Taped for `Beatles
Show', Australian radio programme.
- Jun 13 -- Concert at the Centennial Hall, Adelaida, Australia. Jimmy
Nicol on drums.
- Jun 14 -- Melbourne, Australia. Ringo re-joins the Beatles. 5-Beatle press
conference.
- Jun 15 -- US single release: `Nobody I Know', with Peter and Gordon.
US LP release: `Souvenir Of Their American Visit'. -- A tape of
the Beatles in concert is played on an Australian radio programme called `Beatles
Show' (recorded 12 June 1964, in Adelaide). -- Two performances at the
Festival Hall, Melbourne. Ringo is back on drums.
- Jun 16 -- Two performances at the Festival Hall, Melbourne.
- Jun 17 -- `With The Beatles' 30th week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical
Express chart). -- Two performances at the Melbourne Festival Hall.
Taped for the Australian television programme `The Beatles Sing For Shell'.
- Jun 18 -- Placards reading `We love you Ruby Baby, yes we do' and `Artur's
Smarter', a show of support for 75 year-old pianist Artur Rubenstein who was
in town for a concert, greet the Beatles arriving in Sydney. --
Concert at the Sydney Stadium, Sydney, Australia.
- Jun 19 -- UK EP release: `Long Tall Sally'. US LP release: `The Beatles'
First'. -- Two performances at the Stadium, Rushcutter's Bay,
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Jun 20 -- Epstein flies from Australia to Waikiki, Honolulu, for a short
holiday. -- Concert at the Stadium, Rushcutter's Bay, Sydney,
New South Wales, Australia. -- A critic in the London Times reacts
to John's `In His Own Write' by claiming that he thought John was ``In a pathetic
state of near illiteracy". -- The Beatles are interviewed by telephone
from Australia for BBC-1's `Roundabout' radio programme.
- Jun 21 -- Arrival at the Wellington airport, New Zealand.
- Jun 22 -- Studio 1 (control room only). 10.00-11.30am. Mono mixing: `Any
Time At All' (remix 2, for the UK, from take 11); `Any Time At All' (remix
3, from the USA, from take 11); `When I Get Home' (remix 2, for the UK, from
take 11); `When I Get Home' (remix 3, for the USA, from take 11); `I'll Be
Back' (remix 2, for the UK, from take 16); `I'll Be Back' (remix 3, for the
USA, from take 16); `And I Love Her' (remix 2, from take 21). Studio
1 (control room only). 11.30am-1.00pm. Stereo mixing: `And I Love Her' (from
take 21); `When I Get Home' (from take 11); `Any Time At All' (from take 11);
`I'll Be Back' (from take 16); `If I Fell' (from take 15); `A Hard Day's Night'
(from take 9); `I Should Have Known Better' (from take 22); `I'm Happy Just
To Dance With You' (from take 4); `I Call Your Name' (remixes 1, 2, from takes
5, 7). Editing: `I Call Your Name' (from stereo remixes 1, 2). Studio
1 (control room only). 2.30-5.30pm. Stereo mixing: `Can't Buy Me Love' (from
take 4); `You Can't Do That' (from take 9); `Tell Me Why' (from take 8); `Things
We Said Today' (from take 3); `Matchbox' (from take 5); `Slow Down' (from
take 6); `Long Tall Sally' (from take 1); `I'll Cry Instead' (Section A) (from
take 6); `I'll Cry Instead' (Section B) (from take 8). Editing: `I'll Cry
Instead' (of stereo remixes from takes 6, 8). Studio 2 (control room
only). 5.45-9.00pm. Tape copying: `Slow Down' (copy of 4 June mono remix);
`Matchbox' (copy of 4 June mono remix); `Things We Said Today' (copy of June
22 stereo remix). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer:
Geoff Emerick. End of `A Hard Day's Night' sessions. -- Concert
in Wellington, New Zealand.
- Jun 23 -- Concert in Wellington, New Zealand.
- Jun 24 -- `With The Beatles', 31st week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical
Express chart). -- Concert in Auckland, New Zealand. --
Broadcast of `Let's Find Out', with appearance of Brian, recorded 20 May 1964.
- Jun 25 -- Concert in Auckland, New Zealand. -- The producing
company Fourmost Productions Limited is incorporated, with Brian one of its
opening directors.
- Jun 26 -- US LP release: `A Hard Day's
Night'. -- Concert in Christchurch, New Zealand.
- Jun 27 -- Concert in Christchurch, New Zealand. -- Broadcast of BBC-1
radio's `Roundabout', with interview to the Beatles (recorded 20 June 1964).
- Jun 29 -- Concert in Brisbane, Australia. End of tour. Disturbances
in Brisbane. Fans attack those who throw eggs and vegetables. The police prevents
a lynching.
- Jun 30 -- Return to London, at the Heathrow airport.
- Jul 01 -- `With The Beatles', 32nd week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical
Express chart). -- John buys a house in Surrey for 20,000 pounds.
-- Cilla Black, with the Joe Loss Orchestra, sings before Princess Margaret
and the Lord Chief Justice at a charity ball held at the Mansion House, London.
-- Brian is appointed a director of W. A. Wilson & Farquharson (Investments)
Limited, an investment and hire purchase company. -- Broadcast
on Australian channel 9 TV programme `The Beatles Sing For Shell' of the concert
at the Melbourne Festival Hall (recorded 17 June 1964). -- The
Beatles at Lime Grove BBC Studios.
- Jul 06 -- Royal charity premiere of `A Hard Day's Night', attended by the
Beatles. After, reception at the Dorchester Hotel, with Princess Margaret
and Lord Snowdon. -- US single release: `Like Dreamers Do', with
the Applejacks. US single release: `Ain't She Sweet'/`Nobody's Child'.
- Jul 07 -- Studio E, BBC Lime Grove Studios. Filming of an insert for `Top
Of The Pops'.
- Jul 08 -- `With The Beatles', 33rd week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical
Express chart). -- Apearance on BBC-TV's `Top Of The Pops' (recorded
7 July 1964).
- Jul 09 -- Brian and Dick Rowe are two of the judges of a beat music competition
programme on Westward television. The winning group is the Rustiks.
-- Night. While Epstein is away, thieves break into the NEMS offices in Argyll
Street, London, and steal 130 pounds from a safe and miscellaneous items valued
at 70 pounds. -- Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas play for
the Queen Mother in a concert at the Royal Agricultural Hall in Stoneleigh
Abbey, Kenilworth.
- Jul 10 -- UK LP release: `A Hard Day's
Night'. UK single release: `A Hard Day's Night'/`Things We Said Today'.
UK LP release: `Off The Beatles Track'. -- Evening: Liverpool premiere
of `A Hard Day's Night' at the Odeon Cinema. The Beatles and Brian attend.
- Jul 11 -- George is photographed by `Beatles Book' photographer Leslie
Bryce, showing off his new E-type Jaguar in front of Whaddon House, William
Mews, London. -- To avoid fans, the Beatles cross the Thames on
a boat to get to the ABC Studios in Teddington, from London. Teddington TV
Studios, Middlesex. Live appearance on ABC-TV's `Lucky Stars (Summer Spin)'.
- Jul 12 -- In London, the `Observer' publishes a praiseful review of
`A Hard Day's Night' film, specially of Ringo's work. -- While on his
way to the concert in Brighton in his E-type Jaguar, George is involved in
a car accident in New King's Road at Munster Road, London. Performance
at the Hippodrome, Brighton, with Jimmy Nicol and the Fourmost.
-- Broadcast of parts of `A Hard Day's Night' on the Ed Sullivan show.
- Jul 13 -- US single release: `A Hard Day's Night'/`I Should Have Known
Better'.
- Jul 14 -- Brian resigns his directorship with I. Epstein & Sons (Liverpool)
Limited. -- Studio 2, Broadcasting House, London. 7.00-11.00pm.
Recording for BBC's `Top Gear': `Long Tall Sally'; `Things We Said Today';
`A Hard Day's Night'; `And I Love Her'; `I Should Have Known Better'; `If
I Fell'; `You Can't Do That'. `I Should have Known Better' is the commercially
released version.
- Jul 15 -- `A Hard Day's Night' single number 1, 1st week (UK New Musical
Express chart). `With The Beatles', 24th week in the Top 30 (UK New
Musical Express chart). -- ABC-TV's `The Road To Beatlemania'
broadcast. -- John buys `Kenwood', St George's Hill Estate, Weybridge,
for 20000 pounds.
- Jul 16 -- 10.00-11.55pm. BBC's `Top Gear' broadcast (session recorded 14
July 1964). -- Appearance on BBC-radio's `Brian Matthew Introduces...
- Jul 17 -- BBC Paris Studio, London. 2.45-6.15pm. Recording for BBC's `From
Us To You' (4th edition): `From Us To You'; `Long Tall Sally'; `If I Fell';
`I'm Happy Just To Dance With You'; `Things We Said Today'; `I Should Have
Known Better'; `Boys'; `Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!'; `A Hard Day's Night';
`From Us To You'. Only live take of `I'm Happy Just To Dance With You'.
-- UK single release: `From A Window', with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
- Jul 19 -- Brian presents a five-minute BBC1 television charity appeal,
seeking contributions to the British Polio Fellowship. -- Epstein sacks
guitarist Ray Jones from the Dakotas after a row about the group's future.
-- Blackpool. Appearance on the programme `Big Night Out'.
- Jul 20 -- US single release: `I'll Cry Instead'/`I'm Happy Just To Dance
With You. US single release: `And I Love Her'/`If I Fell'. US LP release:
`Something New'. -- The press
announces the issue of Beatles Ltd. shares.
- Jul 21 -- First recording session of the Rustiks. -- Brian
announces that Michael Haslam will record his first record for Parlophone
with George Martin in September.
- Jul 22 -- `A Hard Day's Night' single number 1, 2nd week (UK New Musical
Express chart). `With The Beatles', 35th week in the Top 30 (UK New
Musical Express chart).
- Jul 23 -- Charity performance on `The Night Of 100 Stars', at the London
Palladium. The Beatles meet Lawrence Olivier. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann present.
- Jul 25 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, replacing `Rolling Stones'
LP (UK Record Retailer chart). Billboard comments that `A Hard
Day's Night' LP has already sold enough copies to cover all the films
costs. A record in the subject. -- Studio 4. BBC Television Centre,
London. George appears on BBC-TV's `Juke Box Jury'. Broadcast live.
Studio 4. BBC Television Centre, London. Ringo films appearance on BBC-TV's
`Juke Box Jury'.
- Jul 26 -- Concert at the Opera House, Blackpool.
- Jul 27 -- Brian flies to New York to negotiate US tours for Cilla Black,
Gerry and the Pacemakers and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, all to
commence at the end of February 1965. -- Cliff Bennett and the Rebel
Rousers sign for NEMS Enterprises. -- Brian represents pop music in
the 1964 list of the 10 best dressed men in Britain. According to the
selectors: `his sartorial taste hits the mark as surely as his eye for
talent. He is one of the moderates.'
- Jul 28 -- The Beatles fly to Sweden. Concert at the Ice Hockey Stadium,
Stockholm.
- Jul 29 -- Concert at the Ice Hockey Stadium, Stockholm. John and Paul suffer
an electric discharge when they touch the microphones while playing `Long
Tall Sally'. -- Brian resigns his directorship with NEMS Limited.
-- `A Hard Day's Night' single number 1, 3rd week (UK New Musical Express
chart). `With The Beatles', 36th week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical
Express chart).
- Jul 30 -- W. A. Wilson & Farquharson (Investments) Limited changes
name to Harreen Limited, to reflect Harry and Queenie Epstein interests.
- Jul 31 -- Concert at the Imperial Ballroom, Nelson.
- Aug 01 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 2nd week (UK `Record Retailer'
chart). -- Ringo appears on BBC-TV's `Juke Box Jury' (filmed 25 July
1964).
- Aug 02 -- Concert at the Gaumont, Bournemouth.
- Aug 03 -- 10.00-12.00am. BBC's `From Us To You' (4th edition) is
broadcast (recorded 17 July 1964). BBC-TV broadcasts `Follow The Beatles',
documentary about the shooting of `A Hard Day's Night'.
-- US LP release: `Off The Beatles Track'.
- Aug 04 -- Lightning visit of Brian to the US to arrange a major autumn
tour package for Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas
and Tommy Quickly.
- Aug 05 -- `A Hard Day's Night' single number 1, 4th and last week (UK New
Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles', 37th week in the Top 30
(UK New Musical Express chart).
- Aug 08 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP, number 1, 3rd week (UK `Record Retailer'
chart).
- Aug 09 -- Concert at the Futurist, Scarborough.
- Aug 10 -- US release of 4 singles by Vee Jay, using all its Beatles catalogue:
`Do You Want To Know A Secret'/`Thank You Girl'; `Please Please Me'/`From
Me To You'; `Love Me Do'/`P.S. I Love You'; `Twist And Shout'/`There's A Place'.
- Aug 11 -- Peter Brown moves to London. -- Studio 2. 7.00-11.00pm.
Recording: `Baby's In Black' (takes 1-14, and 13 [unnumbered] edit pieces).
Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ron Pender.
First session for `Beatles For Sale'. -- `A Hard Day's Night' film New
York premiere.
- Aug 12 -- Brian throws a party, celebrating the first major US tour, at
Whaddon House, William Mews, London. Guests (among others): Judy Garland,
Cilla Black, Peter and Gordon, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, the Beatles, Tommy
Steele, the Searchers, Lionel Bart, the Fourmost, Russ Conway, Tito Burns,
George Martin, Alan Freeman, Pete Murray, Brian Matthew, Peter Gormley, Tony
Barrow, Alma Cogan. -- `A Hard Day's Night'/`Things We Said Today',
5th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles',
38th week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart). -- US single
release: `From A Window', with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas. --
500 US cinemas start exhibiting `A Hard Day's Night'.
- Aug 13 -- Kenneth Partridge and Brian go to Kenwood to talk about its decoration.
[?]
- Aug 14 -- Studio 2. 7.00-9.00pm. Recording: `I'm A Loser' (takes 1-8);
`Mister Moonlight' (takes 1-4). Studio 2 (control room only). 9.00-10.00pm.
Mono mixing: `I'm A Loser' (remix 1, from take 8); `Baby's In Black' (remix
1, from take 14). Studio 2. 10.00-11.15pm. Recording: `Leave My Kitten Alone'
(takes 1-5). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer:
Ron Pender. -- Kenneth Partridge and an assistant present drawings,
clothes and colours for Kenwood's decoration. [?]
- Aug 15 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 4th week (UK Record Retailer
chart).
- Aug 16 -- Concert at the Opera House, Blackpool. Concert at the Futurist,
Scarborough.
- Aug 17 -- US single release: `It's For You', by Cilla Black. -- The
Beatles appear on the cover photograph of US weekly magazine `Saturday Evening
Post' (photograph taken 3 June 1964).
- Aug 18 -- The Beatles and Brian fly to San Francisco. Beginning of 34-day
tour of USA and Canada. On arriving, Brian receives a telegram from Colonel
Tom Parker, sending felicitations to the Beatles party on behalf of Elvis
Presley. A ticket-tape welcome in San Francisco had been announced, not materialized.
- Aug 19 -- Beginning of tour of the USA and Canada. Concert at the Cow Palace,
San Francisco, California. The concert is filmed. -- A Kansas City impresario
offers $ 350000 for the Beatles to perform at that city, the largest amount
paid to an artist in the USA until then. -- `A Hard Day's
Night' single, 6th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With
The Beatles', 39th week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart).
- Aug 20 -- Concert at the Convention Hall, Las Vegas.
- Aug 21 -- Concert at the Coliseum, Seattle.
- Aug 22 -- Concert at the Empire Stadium, Vancouver (30 minutes). Filmed.
-- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 5th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
-- The `Liverpool Echo' reports that Brian is trying to become the Searchers'
manager.
- Aug 23 -- 8.00pm. Live concert at the Hollywood Bowl, 2301 North Highland
Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA. Recording: `Introduction' (by
announcer); `Twist And Shout'; `You Can't Do That'; `All My Loving'; `She
Loves You'; `Things We Said Today'; `Roll Over Beethoven'; `Can't Buy Me Love';
`If I Fell'; `I Want To Hold Your Hand'; `Boys'; `A Hard Day's Night'; `Long
Tall Sally'. Producer: Voyle Gilmore, with George Martin; Engineer: Hugh Davies;
2nd Engineer: not assigned. 6 songs were included in `The Beatles
at the Hollywood Bowl' LP. -- Brian gives his appraisals of the Beatles
in the `New York World-Telegram'.
- Aug 24 -- US single release: `Matchbox'/`Slow Down'. -- First meeting
between Brian and Colonel Parker, Elvis Presley's manager. They lunch in the
Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles. -- US Gold certification for LP `Something
New'. -- Livingston Garden, Los Angeles. Reception organized by the
Foundation against hemophilia. Paul holds Rebel Lee Robinson (daughter of
Edward G. Robinson) in his arms.
- Aug 25 -- US Gold certification for `A Hard Day's Night' single.
- Aug 26 -- Hollywood. Visit to the `Whisky A Go Go' jazz club, along with
Jane Mansfield. Then they travel to Denver. -- Evening: Concert
at the Red Rock Stadium, Denver. -- `A Hard Day's Night' single, 7th
week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles', 40th
and last week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart).
- Aug 27 -- Concert at the Gardens, Cincinnati. Brian disappears for one
night and one day. -- Studio, Capitol Records, 1750 North Vine Street,
Hollywood, California, USA. Stereo mixing: All songs from Live Concert at
the Hollywood Bowl, August 23. Producer: Voyle Gilmore; Engineer: Hugh Davies;
2nd Engineer: not assigned.
- Aug 28 -- Reunion with Bob Dylan at the Delmonico Hotel, New York. On Dylan's
proposal, the Beatles smoke marijuana for the first time. -- Concert
at the Forest Hills tennis stadium, New York. -- The Beatles appear
on the cover photograph of `Life' magazine.
- Aug 29 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 6th week (UK Record Retailer
chart). -- Billboard publishes that the sales of guitars have reached
its highest point since 1957, when Elvis appeared.
- Aug 30 -- Concert at the Convention Hall, Atlantic City.
- Sep 02 -- Concert at the Convention Hall, Philadelphia. -- `A Hard
Day's Night' single, 8th and last week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express
chart).
- Sep 03 -- Concert at the State Fair Coliseum, Indianapolis.
- Sep 04 -- Concert at the Milwaukee Auditorium. -- Eric Easton, Rolling
Stones joint manager, denies reports that Brian Epstein is bidding to buy
their management contract. -- UK single release: `What A Memory
Can Do', first single of the Rustiks.
- Sep 05 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 7th week (UK Record Retailer
chart). -- Concert at the International Amphitheater, Chicago.
- Sep 06 -- Concert at the Olympia Stadium, Detroit.
- Sep 07 -- Concert at the Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto.
- Sep 08 -- Concert at the Forum, Montreal. -- Evening: Tele-recording
of the final of the Rediffusion Television's `Ready Steady Win!' contest.
On the panel are Bill Haley, Brian Matthew and Georgia Brown. Brian is the
chairman of the panel.
- Sep 09 -- `A Hard Day's Night' single, 9th week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical
Express chart).
- Sep 11 -- Concert at the Gator Bowl, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
In Jacksonville, the Beatles demand that the audience would not be colour
segregated, as authorities intended. -- UK single release:
`One Way Love', 1st single of Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers since Brian
became their manager. Release of the Moody Blues first single. UK single
release: `I Don't Want To See You Again', with Peter & Gordon.
-- Harrisongs is incorporated.
- Sep 12 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 8th week (UK Record Retailer
chart). -- Concert at the Boston Garden, Boston.
- Sep 13 -- Concert at the Civic Center, Baltimore. -- NEMS Enterprises
Limited buys a controlling stake in the `Mersey Beat'.
- Sep 14 -- Concert at the Civic Arena, Pittsburgh. -- Brian returns
to the USA, to attend the end of the Beatles' tour. -- It is announced
that Brian will soon record his first LP, with readings from `A Cellarful
Of Noise'. The press informs that a Beatles record and some other contemporary
objects currently in fashion will be buried under the New York Universal Exposition
for future civilizations.
- Sep 15 -- Concert at the Public Auditorium, Cleveland. Inspector Carl Bear,
of the Cleveland Police Department, holds the group for 15 minutes at the
backstage of the Cleveland Public Auditorium, until fans calm down.
- Sep 16 -- `A Hard Day's Night' single, 10th week in the Top 30 (UK New
Musical Express chart). -- Concert at the City Park Stadium, New Orleans.
- Sep 17 -- Concert at the Municipal Stadium, Kansas City.
- Sep 18 -- Concert at the Memorial Coliseum, Dallas. An anonymous call to
the police announces there is a bomb on the Beatles' plane. False alarm.
- Sep 19 -- Brian celebrates his 30th birthday on a plane over Houston, Texas.
-- The Beatles spend the week end at millionaire Reed Pigman's farm in Alton,
Missouri. -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 9th week (UK Record Retailer
chart). -- John gives his permission for his drawing `The Fat Budgie'
to be printed on Christmas cards.
- Sep 20 -- Charity concert at the Paramount Theatre, New York. Performance
for the Ed Sullivan Show. End of the North American tour.
- Sep 21 -- The Beatles and Brian fly back to England from the US.
-- US single release: `I Don't Want To See You Again', with Peter and Gordon.
- Sep 23 -- `A Hard Day's Night' single, 11th and last week in the Top 30
(UK New Musical Express chart).
- Sep 25 -- UK single release: `Gotta Get A Hold On Myself', first record
of Michael Haslam. -- Brian reveals that while in the USA, a syndicate
of businessmen offered him 3.5 million pounds for his interests in the Beatles.
He rejected the offer.
- Sep 26 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 10th week (UK Record Retailer
chart).
- Sep 27 -- Brian and Ringo are among the panel of judges at `Beat Time For
Oxfan', a pop talent contest with charity purposes, at the Prince of Wales
Theatre, London.
- Sep 29 -- Studio 2. 2.30-6.30pm. Recording: `Every Little Thing' (takes
1-4); `I Don't Want To Spoil The Party' (takes 1-7). Studio 2. 7.00-10.45pm.
Recording: `I Don't Want To Spoil The Party' (takes 8-19); `What You're Doing'
(takes 1-7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer:
Ken Scott/Mike Stone.
- Sep 30 -- Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm. Recording: `Every Little Thing' (takes
5-9). Studio 2. 6.30-10.30pm. Recording: `What You're Doing' (takes 8-12);
`No Reply' (takes 1-8). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd
Engineer: Ken Scott/Mike Stone. Debut of timpani, on take 9 of `Every
Little Thing'.
- Oct 01 -- Brian appears on the live BBC 1 TV program, `Tonight', interviewed
by Cliff Michelmore about `A Cellarful Of Noise'. -- UK LP release:
`The Beatles Versus The Four Seasons'.
- Oct 02 -- `A Cellarful Of Noise' is published in Britain. --
Granville Theatre, London. Rehearsal for a special British edition of the
US TV show `Shindig'.
- Oct 03 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 11th week (UK Record Retailer
chart). -- Granville Theatre, London. Recording of a performance for
the US TV show `Shindig', special British edition.
- Oct 06 -- Studio 2. 3.00-6.45pm. Recording: `Eight Days A Week' (takes
1-6). Studio 2. 7.00-10.00pm. Recording: `Eight Days A Week' (takes 7-13).
Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott/Mike
Stone. First time the Beatles take an incomplete idea into the studio
and experiment various ways of recording it.
- Oct 07 -- Meeting of the Beatles, Brian and Walter Shenson to discuss plans
for the next film.
- Oct 08 -- Enfield Town Driving Test Centre, Enfield Town, Middlesex. Morning.
Ringo takes his driving test, successfully. -- Studio 2. 2.30-6.00pm.
Recording: `She's A Woman' (takes 1-7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer:
Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott/ Mike Stone. Ringo uses the chocalho
for the first time. First session for `I Feel Fine'/`She's A Woman'.
- Oct 09 -- 18.15 and 20.40. Concert at the Gaumont Theatre, Bradford. Start
of UK tour, with Mary Wells, Tommy Quickly, Sounds Incorporated, Michael Haslam,
the Remo Four, the Rustiks, and Bob Bain. -- Brian and Lionel Bart announce
a concert starring Judy Garland.It never materializes. -- Recording
of three themes at the Granville Theatre, London, before an audience, for
the US TV programme `Shindig'. One of the songs is `The House Of The Rising
Sun'.
- Oct 10 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 12th week (UK Record Retailer
chart). -- 18.15 and 20.45. Concerts at the De Montfort Hall, Leicester.
-- Brian gets the British representation of the American group New Christy
Minstrels, and plans to take them to the UK for one week of radio and television
promotion in January.
- Oct 11 -- 17.00 and 19.45. Concerts at the Odeon, Birmingham.
- Oct 12 -- Studio 2 (control room only). 10.00-10.30am. Mono mixing: `She's
A Woman' (remix 1, from take 6). Stereo mixing: `She's A Woman' (from take
6). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott.
Studio 2 (control room only). 2.30-3.00pm. Mono mixing: `Eight Days A Week'
(remix 1, from take 13). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith;
2nd Engineer: Ken Scott. -- Brian Epstein Automobiles Limited
is incorporated, with Brian one of its opening directors. -- Wendy Hanson
returns from the USA to work at Argyll Street NEMS office. -- US LP
release: `Songs, Pictures And Stories Of The Fabulous Beatles'.
- Oct 13 -- 18.20 and 20.30. Performances at the ABC Theatre, Wigan,
-- EMI Studios. Brian records a record with readings from `A Cellarful Of
Noise'. Producer: George Martin.
- Oct 14 -- 18.30 and 20.45. Performances at the Apollo, Manchester. Filmed
by ABC-TV. -- Brian sends a cable to Harold Wilson on the eve
of the General Election: `Hope your group is as much a success.'
- Oct 15 -- 18.15, 20.30. Concerts at the Globe, Stockton.
- Oct 16 -- Studio 1 (control room only). 2.30-5.30pm. Mono mixing: `No Reply'
(remixes 1, 2, from take 8). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith;
2nd Engineer: A. B. Lincoln. -- 18.15, 20.30. Concerts at the ABC Theatre,
Hull. -- Appearance on the TV programme `Ready Steady Go'.
- Oct 17 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 13th week (UK Record Retailer
chart).
- Oct 18 -- Studio 2. 2.30-11.30pm. Recording: `Eight Days A Week' (takes
14-15); `Kansas City/`Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!' (takes 1-2); `Mr Moonlight' [re-make]
(takes 5-8); `I Feel Fine' (takes 1-9); `I'll Follow The Sun' (takes 1-8);
`Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby' (take 1); `Rock And Roll Music' (take 1);
`Words Of Love' (takes 1-3). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith;
2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick. Visit at the studio: Carl Perkins. [?]
- Oct 19 -- 18.30, 20.50. Concerts at the ABC, Edinburgh.
- Oct 20 -- 18.30 and 20.45. Performances at the Caird Hall, Dundee.
-- Brian produces his first record, for Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, at
IBC Studios, London.
- Oct 21 -- Abbey Road, Room 65. 2.30-5.45pm. Mono mixing: `I Feel Fine'
(remixes 1-4, from take 9); `I'll Follow The Sun' (from take 8); `She's A
Woman' (remix 2, from take 6); `Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby' (from take
1). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ron Pender.
-- 18.40 and 21.00. Concerts at the Odeon, Glasgow.
- Oct 22 -- Studio 1 (control room only). 11.00am-12.00noon. Mono mixing:
`I Feel Fine' (remix 5, from take 9). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman
Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ron Pender. -- 18.00, 20.30. Concerts
at the Odeon, Leeds.
- Oct 23 -- 18.40, 21.00. Concerts at the Gaumont State Cinema, West Hampstead,
London.
- Oct 24 -- 18.30, 21.00. Concerts at the Granada Theatre, Walthamstow. London.
-- Concert at the Odeon, Lewisham. [?] -- `A Hard Day's Night'
LP number 1, 14th week (UK Record Retailer chart). -- Joanne Epstein
is born to Clive Epstein and his wife Barbara.
- Oct 25 -- 18.00, 20.45. Concerts at the Hippodrome, Brighton. --
The Beatles receive 4 1963 Ivor Novello awards: `She Loves You' (most aired
and most sold song); `I Want To Hold Your Hand' (second most aired song);
`All My Loving' (second song of the year).
- Oct 26 -- Studio 2 (control room only). 10.00am-12.45pm. Mono mixing: `I
Don't Want To Spoil The Party' (from take 19); `Rock And Roll Music' (from
take 1); `Words Of Love' (from take 3); `Baby's In Black' (remix 2,
from take 14); `I'm A Loser' (remix 2, from take 8); `Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!'
(from take 1). Studio 2 (control room only). 12.45-1.05pm. Stereo mixing:
`Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!' (from take 1). Studio 2. 4.30-6.30pm.
Recording: `Honey Don't' (takes 1-5). Studio 2. 7.30-10.00pm. Recording: `What
You're Doing' [re-make] (takes 13-19); `Another Beatles Christmas Record'
(takes 1-5). Editing: `Another Beatles Christmas Record' (of takes 1-5). Producer:
George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: A. B. Lincoln. Visit
at the studio: Carl Perkins [?]. Last day of recordings for `Beatles
For Sale'.
- Oct 27 -- Studio 2 (control room only). 10.00am-12.30pm. Mono mixing: `What
You're Doing' (from take 19); `Honey Don't' (from take 5); `Mr Moonlight'
(remixes 1, 2, from takes 4, 8); `Every Little Thing' (from take 9); `Eight
Days A Week' (remixes 2, 3, from takes 13, 15). Editing: `Mr Moonlight'
(of mono remixes 1, 2); `Eight Days A Week' (of mono remixes 2, 3). Studio
2 (control room only). 12.30-1.00pm. Stereo mixing: `Eight Days A Week' (remixes
1, 2, from takes 13, 15); `Every Little Thing' (from take 9); `What
You're Doing' (from take 19); `Honey Don't' (from take 5). Editing: `Eight
Days A Week' (of stereo remixes 1, 2). Producer: George Martin; Engineer:
Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott.
- Oct 28 -- 18.15, 20.30. Concerts at the ABC, Exeter.
- Oct 29 -- 18.15, 20.30. Concerts at the ABC Theatre, Plymouth.
- Oct 30 -- 18.15, 20.30. Concerts at the Gaumont Theatre, Bournemouth.
- Oct 31 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 15th week (UK Record Retailer
chart). -- 18.00, 20.30. Concerts at the Gaumont Theatre, Ipswich.
- Nov 01 -- 18.00, 20.30. Concerts at the Astoria Theatre, Finsbury Park.
- Nov 02 -- Concert at the Ritz, Belfast. -- US LP release: `A Hard
Day's Night' (instrumental version).
- Nov 04 -- Studio 2 (control room only). 10.00am-1.00pm. Stereo mixing:
`I'll Follow The Sun' (from take 8); `Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby' (from
take 1); `Rock And Roll Music' (from take 1); `Words Of Love' (from take 3);
`Mr Moonlight' (remixes 1, 2, from takes 4, 8); `I Don't Want To Spoil The
Party' (from take 19); `I'm A Loser' (from take 8); `Baby's In Black' (from
take 14); `No Reply' (from take 8); `I Feel Fine' (from take 9). Editing:
`Mr Moonlight' (of stereo remixes 1, 2). Producer: George Martin; Engineer:
Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Mike Stone. End of sessions for `I Feel
Fine'/`She's A Woman' and for `Beatles For Sale'. -- 18.30, 20.40. Concerts
at the Ritz, Luton.
- Nov 05 -- 18.15, 20.30. Concerts at the Odeon, Nottingham.
- Nov 06 -- UK EP release: `Extracts from the film A Hard Day's Night'. UK
EP release: `Extracts from the album A Hard Day's Night'. -- Brian records
his first and only appearance on BBC Home Service's `Desert Island Discs'.
[18 November?] -- 18.15, 20.40. Concerts at the Gaumont, Southampton.
- Nov 07 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 16th week (UK Record Retailer
chart). -- 18.30, 20.50. Concerts at the Capitol, Cardiff. --
Epstein opens a bazar at George Spicer School, Southbury Road, Enfield, Middlesex.
- Nov 08 -- 17.40, 20.00. Concerts at the Liverpool Empire, Liverpool.
- Nov 09 -- 18.30, 20.50. Concerts at the City Hall, Sheffield.
- Nov 10 -- 18.20, 20.45. Concerts at the Colston Hall, Bristol. End of British
Tour.
- Nov 14 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 17th week (UK Record Retailer
chart). -- Teddington TV Studios, Middlesex. Filming for ABC-TV's `Thank
Your Lucky Stars'.
- Nov 15 -- US TV broadcasts fragments of `Around The Beatles'.
- Nov 16 -- Riverside Studios, London. Recording of performance for BBC-TV's
`Top Of The Pops'.
- Nov 17 -- The Playhouse Theatre, Manchester. 7.30-11.30pm. Recording for
BBC's `Top Gear': `I'm A Loser'; `Honey Don't'; `She's A Woman'; `Everybody's
Trying To Be My Baby'; `I'll Follow The Sun'; `I Feel Fine'. Only live recording
of `I'll Follow The Sun'.
- Nov 18 -- Brian records his first and only appearance on the BBC Home Service
programme `Desert Island Discs'. [6 November?]
- Nov 20 -- Wimbledon Common, Wimbledon, London. Between the windmill and
the lake. Filming for BBC-TV's `Not Only... But Also': John, Dudley Moore
and Norman Rossington acting out `Deaf Ted, Danoota, (and me)', poem from
John's `In His Own Write'.
- Nov 21 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 18th week (UK Record Retailer
chart). -- Appearance on `Thank Your Lucky Stars'.
- Nov 23 -- US single release: `I Feel Fine'/`She's A Woman'. US LP release:
`The Beatles' Story'. -- Wembley
TV Studios, Wembley, Middlesex. Recording performance for `Ready, Steady,
Go!'
- Nov 24 -- Marriage of James McCartney and Angela Williams.
- Nov 25 -- Number 1 Studio, BBC Aeolian Hall. 7.00-10.30pm. Recording for
BBC's `Saturday Club': `Rock And Roll Music'; `I'm A Loser'; `Everybody's
Trying To Be My Baby'; `I Feel Fine'; `Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!'; `She's
A Woman'. `I'm A Loser', `Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby', `I Feel Fine'
and `She's A Woman' are the same versions broadcast on 26 November (recorded
17 November). -- Tommy Quickly, with Brian and Derek Taylor, flies to
Los Angeles from London to promote his single `The Wild Side Of Life'.
Before leaving to Los Angeles, Brian is seen at business meetings with Lew
Grade. In Los Angeles, Brian and the party are received at the airport by
Lionel Bart.
- Nov 26 -- 10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Top Gear' broadcast (recorded 17 November).
- Nov 27 -- News from the US that Epstein could sell his Beatles' management
interest are denied `at any price'. -- Appearance on `Ready, Steady,
Go!' TV show (filmed 24 November 1964). -- UK single release: `I Feel
Fine'/`She's A Woman'.
- Nov 28 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 19th week (UK Record Retailer
chart). -- Conversations in London held by Gary Smith, Vic Lewis
and Lester Gottlieb about a new American TV show, `Hullaballoo'.
- Nov 29 -- Conversations in London held by Gary Smith, Vic Lewis and
Lester Gottlieb about a new American TV show, `Hullaballoo'. -- John
and George meet two members of the Miracles at the Crazy Elephant restaurant,
London. -- Studio 1. BBC Television Centre, London. John films appearance
on BBC-TV's `Not Only... But Also'.
- Nov 30 -- BBC Home Service's `Desert Island Discs' broadcast, with appearance
of Brian. -- Ringo visits `Melody Maker'.
- Dec 02 -- `I Feel Fine' reaches 800 000 copies sold in the UK. `I
Feel Fine' number 1, first week in the ranking (UK New Musical Express chart).
-- Beginning of Ringo's stay at the University College Hospital, London, to
have his tonsils removed.
- Dec 03 -- Brian flies from Los Angeles to London. -- Appearance
on BBC-TV's `Top Of the Pops'.
- Dec 04 -- UK LP release: `Beatles for
Sale'. -- Brian arrives in London from Los Angeles.
- Dec 05 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 20th week (UK Record Retailer
chart).
- Dec 06 -- Premiere of the film `Ferry Cross The Mersey', at the New Victoria
Cinema, London.
- Dec 09 -- `I Feel Fine' reaches 1 000 000 copies sold in the UK.
`I Feel Fine' number 1, 2nd week (UK New Musical Express chart). --
Appearance on BBC-TV's `Top Of The Pops'.
- Dec 10 -- `I Feel Fine' number 1 (UK Record Retailer chart). -- UK
gold certification for `I Feel Fine'.
- Dec 12 -- `A Hard Day's Night' LP number 1, 21st and last week (UK Record
Retailer chart).
- Dec 15 -- US LP release: `Beatles '65'.
- Dec 16 -- `I Feel Fine' number 1, 3rd week (UK New Musical Express chart).
-- End of Ringo's stay at the University College Hospital, London, to have
his tonsils removed..
- Dec 18 -- The 2nd `Christmas Record' is sent to the members of the Fan
Club. -- Bud Ornstein, British production head of United Artists,
quits his job and announces he and Brian will form Pickfair Films Limited,
film producing company.
- Dec 19 -- `Beatles For Sale' number 1, 1st week (UK Record Retailer chart).
-- Shepperton Film Studios. First bunch of Brian tele-recordings for `Hullaballoo',
interviewing and presenting Gerry and the Pacemakers, Marianne Faithfull,
Freddie and the Dreamers, Andrew Oldham, Herman's Hermits, and Cliff Bennett
and the Rebel Rousers. In a chat about the next Beatles' film, he speaks with
Richard Lester.
- Dec 20 -- The first signing of an actor for NEMS Enterprises: John Gillespie.
Brian agrees on British contracts for the New Christy Minstrels, including
an appearance on the `Sunday Night at the London Palladium' TV show.
-- Brian buys a house at 24 Chapel Street, London.
- Dec 21 -- Brian moves to a new house, at 24 Chapel Street, Belgravia,
London.
- Dec 22 -- Pickfair Films Limited is incorporated, with Brian one of its
opening directors.
- Dec 23 -- `I Feel Fine' number 1, 4th week (UK New Musical Express chart).
- Dec 24 -- Start of Christmas show at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, `Another
Beatles Christmas Show', with the Yardbirds, Freddie and the Dreamers,
Jimmy Saville, Elkie Brooks, Mike Haslam, and Mike Cotton Sound. Two concerts.
- Dec 26 -- `Beatles For Sale' number 1, 2nd week (UK Record Retailer chart).
`I Feel Fine' number 1, 1st week (Billboard). -- 10.00-12.00am. BBC's
`Saturday Club' broadcast (recorded 25 November 1964). -- `Another Beatles
Christmas Show' at the Hammersmith Odeon, London (two performances).
- Dec 28 -- `Another Beatles Christmas Show' at the Hammersmith Odeon, London
(two performances).
- Dec 29 -- `Another Beatles Christmas Show' at the Hammersmith Odeon, London
(two performances).
- Dec 30 -- `I Feel Fine' number 1, 5th week (UK New Musical Express chart).
-- `Another Beatles Christmas Show' at the Hammersmith Odeon, London (two
performances).
- Dec 31 -- `Another Beatles Christmas Show' at the Hammersmith Odeon, London
(two performances). -- Party at Norman Newell's house, 40 Montagu Mansions,
Marylebone, London. The Beatles attend.
PREV / NEXT YEAR 1964
Compilation made by Victor Munoz.
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