Beatles-related dates for May
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1 May
1963
-- `Please Please Me' LP, 6th week in the Top 10 (UK
New Musical Express chart).
-- Tony Barrow becomes the Beatles' press agent.
1964
-- 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.
1965
-- `Beatles For Sale' number 1, 1st week, replacing `Rolling
Stones II' (UK Record Retailer chart).
1966
-- Performance in the New Musical Express Poll Winner's
Concert, Empire Pool, Wembley, along with the Rolling Stones,
the Yardbirds, Spencer Davis Group, Roy Orbison, and others. Beatles
performance not filmed.
Last Beatles performance in concert in Britain.
-- Premiere of `The Beatles At The Shea Stadium', broadcast by
BBC-TV.
1967
-- Henry Moss cuts the stereo version of `Sgt Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band'.
1969
-- Studio 3 (control room only). 2.30-7.00pm. Stereo mixing: `Oh!
Darling' (remixes 2-4, from take 26). Producer: Chris Thomas;
Engineer: Jeff Jarratt; 2nd Engineer: Nick Webb.
Studio 3. 7.00-10.45pm. 3rd stereo mix of `John And Yoko'.
-- The label Zapple is incorporated.
1978
-- Start of sessions for `London Town' LP at Record Plant
Mobile Studio, aboard the yatch `Fair Carol', Virgin
Islands.
1993
-- Paul's concert in Atlanta (`The New World Tour').
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2 May
1963
-- `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.
1964
-- `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).
1969
-- Richard Asher is found dead at his Wimpole Street house
basement.
-- Studio 3. 7.00pm-3.40am. Recording: `Something' [re-make]
(takes 1-36). Producer: Chris Thomas; Engineer: Jeff Jarratt; 2nde
Engineer: Nick Webb.
11.00pm-1.00am. Session break.
-- ATV gets the support of minor share holders and obtains the
45% of Northern Songs shares. They maintain their offer of
purchase for the Beatles' shares until 15 May.
-- Studio G, BBC Lime Grove Studios, London. John and Yoko appear
on BBC-TV's `How Late It Is'.
Few hours later, BBC-TV's `How Late It Is' is broadcast, with
appearance of John and Yoko.
1970
-- `Let It Be' single, 8th week in the Top 30 (Billboard).
`Live Peace In Toronto', 17th week in the ranking
(Billboard).
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3 May
1950
-- Mary Hopkin is born in Pontardawe, Glamorgan, Wales.
1964
-- The Searchers top the bill of the first concert of the
series `Pops Alive!', at the Prince Of Wales Theatre,
London.
1967
-- Studio 3. 7.00pm-12.15am. Recording: `Magical Mystery Tour'
(overdub onto take 9). Producer: George Martin: Engineer: Malcolm
Addey; 2nd Engineer: Richard Lush.
Recording of brasses for `Magical Mystery Tour'.
1969
-- `Yellow Submarine' LP, 16th week in the Top 100
(Billboard).
-- ATV announces that their offer for Northern Songs to the
Beatles will be kept until 15 May.
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4 May
1963
-- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 1st week (UK Melody Market
chart?).
`From Me To You' number 1, 1st week (UK Melody Market
chart?).
1964
-- Dick James Music and Northern Songs install their headquarters
at 71--75 New Oxford Street, Blumsbury, London.
1966
-- `Rubber Soul', 22nd week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical
Express chart).
1967
-- Studio 3 (control room only). 7.00-11.15pm. Mono mixing: `Magical
Mystery Tour' (remixes 1-7, from take 9). Producer: George Martin;
Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Richard Lush.
1968
-- Mary Hopkin appears on the TV program `Opportunity Knocks',
is discovered by Twiggy, who immediately [or the next day?]
calls Paul.
1969
-- Northern Songs shares' price raises by 9 pennies.
-- Ringo, John and Paul, with Maureen, Yoko and Linda, attend an
end-of-filming party for `The Magic Christian' at Les Ambassadeurs
Club, London.
-- Maclen, on behalf of John, buys `Tittenhurst', at Sunningdale,
Ascot, Berkshire, for 145,000 pounds.
1973
-- UK single release: `Death Of Samantha'/`Yang Yang', of Yoko.
1977
-- US LP release: `The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl'.
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5 May
1965
-- `Ticket To Ride' number 1, 4th week (UK New
Musical Express chart).
-- Lionel Bart flies from UK to Spain to join Brian on
vacation.
1966
-- Studio 3. 9.30pm-3.00am. Recording: `I'm Only Sleeping'
(overdub onto take 11). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff
Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald.
1968
-- Twiggy calls Paul, telling him about Mary Hopkin. [4 May?]
1969
-- US single release: `Get Back'/`Don't Let Me Down'.
-- Olympic Sound Studios. Start of recordings of the 1st LP of
Billy Preston.
-- Studio 1, Olympic Sound Studios. 7.30pm-4.00am. Recording:
`Something' (overdub onto take 36). Producer: George Martin;
Engineer: Glyn Johns; 2nd Engineer: Steve Vaughan.
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6 May
1964
-- `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.
1966
-- Studio 2. 2.30pm-1.00am. Recording: `I'm Only Sleeping'
(overdub onto take 11, tape reduction take 11 into takes 12, 13).
Studio 2 (control room only). 1.00-2.15am. Mono mixing: `I'm Only
Sleeping' (remixes 1-4, from take 13). Producer: George Martin;
Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald.
-- UK single release: `2 Days Monday', 1st of The Scaffold.
1968
-- US single release: `Step Inside Love', of Cilla Black.
1969
-- Studio 1, Olympic Sound Studios. 3.00pm-4.00am. Recording:
`You Never Give Me Your Money' (takes 1-36). Stereo mixing: `You
Never Give Me Your Money' (remix 1, from take 30). Producer: George
Martin; Engineer: Glyn Johns; 2nd Engineer: Steve Vaughan.
1st explicit recording for the `Abbey Road' medley.
-- It is announced that John and Yoko are recording a record
about their lives and Yoko's miscarriage, up until their
honeymoon in Amsterdam.
1977
-- UK LP release: `The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl'.
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7 May
1962
-- Brian spends the night at the Green Park Hotel.
1966
-- Brian flies to Copenhague, to receive golden records and
prizes of `Borge' magazine on behalf of the Beatles.
1969
-- Studio 1, Olympic Sounds Studios. 8.00pm-7.30am. Stereo
mixing: Inserts for the `Get Back' LP. Producer: George Martin;
Engineer: Glyn Johns; 2nd Engineer: Steve Vaughan.
-- The Beatles and Allen Klein negotiate with Joseph Lockwood
an increase of the group royalties. EMI decides to balt
negotiations until seeing what happens with the group
businesses and NEMS's purchase by Triumph Investment.
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8 May
1962
-- Brian meets at HMV Shop, Oxford St., London, with Bob Boast,
Jim Foy, disc cutter, and Syd Coleman, general manager. Syd
contacts him with George Martin.
1963
-- `Please Please Me' LP, 7th week in the Top 10 (UK
New Musical Express chart).
1967
-- NEMS Enterprises announces that Gerry and the Pacemakers
will split in the next two months.
1968
-- It is reported that the Beatles have been warned by the
syndics of the Portman state that they will have to erase
the psychedelic paintings on the Apple Boutique's wall.
-- UK single release: `Step Inside Love', with Cilla Black.
-- John and Paul interview with Larry Kane.
1969
-- Klein flies to New York for a meeting with the board of
directors of ABKCO.
John, George and Ringo order Peter Brown and Neil to sign
Klein's contracts. The contracts are signed, with the sole
exception of Paul's.
Alistair Taylor is fired as Apple's director.
1970
-- UK LP release: `Let It Be'.
1982
-- Neil Bogart dies of cancer.
1991
-- Paul's concert at the Barcelona Zeleste Club, Spain.
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9 May
1962
-- Mid-morning: Meeting of Brian and George Martin at Abbey
Road.
Brian sends the Beatles a telegram to Hamburg with the
news, from Wellington Road.
1964
-- `Can't Buy Me Love', 6th week in the Top 30 (Billboard).
1965
-- First of 2 performances of Bob Dylan at the Royal Albert
Hall, ending his European tour. The Beatles and Donovan
attend the show and spend the evening with him.
1966
-- Studio 2. 7.00-11.00pm. Recording: `For No One' (takes 1-10).
Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil
McDonald.
1967
-- Studio 2. 11.00pm-6.15am. Recording: `Untitled' (take 1).
Producer: George Martin; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer:
Richard Lush.
Instrumental jamming.
-- It is announced that Gerry Marsden will lead the team
representing England in this year's European Song Cup
competition. The team consists of Gerry Marsden, Dodie West,
Roger Whittaker, Lois Lane and Oscar.
1969
-- UK LP release: `Unfinished Music Number 2---Life With The
Lions'.
UK LP release: `Electronic Sounds'.
-- Studio 1, Olympic Sound Studios. 3.00-11.00pm. Stereo
mixing: Inserts for the `Get Back' LP. Producer: George Martin;
Engineer: Glyn Johns; 2nd Engineer: Steve Vaughan.
Besides, playback of complete and mixed titles.
1970
-- `Let It Be' single, 9th week in the Top 30 (Billboard).
`Live Peace In Toronto', 18th week in the ranking
(Billboard).
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10 May
1944
-- Jackie Lomax is born in Liverpool.
1947
-- Donovan is born.
1960
-- Audition for Larry Parnes.
1963
-- George recommends the Rolling Stones to Dick Rowe, of Decca A
& R.
1964
-- 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.
1965
-- Studio 2. 8.00-11.30pm. Recording: `Dizzy Miss Lizzy'; `Bad
Boy'.
Studio 2. 11.30pm-1.15am. Mono mixing, Stereo mixing: `Dizzy
Miss Lizzy'; `Bad Boy'.
1st session extended past midnight, but it is an isolated
event and only for mixing. Larry Williams is in Abbey Road while the
session is in course.
-- Shooting for `Help!' in Cliveden House, Buckinghamshire.
1969
-- `Yellow Submarine' LP, 17th week in the Top 100
(Billboard).
`Get Back' number 10, entering the ranking; 1st week in the
Top 30 (Billboard).
1973
-- Appearance of Paul on `James Paul McCartney', television
programme produced by Lew Grade.
1991
-- Paul's concert at the London Mean Fiddler, England.
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11 May
1963
-- `Please Please Me' LP number 1, 1st week (UK Record Retailer
chart).
-- Concert at the Imperial Ballroom, Nelson.
1964
-- US EP release: `Four By The Beatles'.
-- Gerry and the Pacemakers with Brian return from the US to
England.
1965
-- `Dizzy Miss Lizzy' and `Bad Boy' are sent via air mail to
Capitol Records, Los Angeles.
-- Shooting of `Help!' in Cliveden House, Buckinghamshire.
1966
-- `Rubber Soul', 23rd week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical
Express chart).
1967
-- Studio 1, Olympic Sound Studios. 9.00pm-3.00am. Recording:
`Baby, You're A Rich Man' (takes 1-12, tape reduction take 12 into
takes 1, 2). Mono mixing: `Baby, You're A Rich Man' (remix 1, from
take 2). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Keith Grant; 2nd
Engineer: Eddie Kramer.
1st song recorded and mixed completely outside Abbey Road. 1st
session for `Yellow Submarine'. Visit at the studio: Mick Jagger.
1968
-- John, Paul, Mal, Derek Taylor and Neil arrive in New York to
promote Apple Corps. During this visit, John and Paul stay
at 181 E. 73rd St., New York, residence of Nat Weiss.
1969
-- Recording of `Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune', of
Jack Bruce. George on guitar.
1970
-- US single release: `The Long And Winding Road'/`For You
Blue'.
1972
-- John's appearance on the Dick Cavett Show, with Yoko.
1973
-- Paul's concert at Bristol. Start of Wings British tour.
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12 May
1963
-- John returns from his vacations in Spain.
-- John and Cynthia register Julian. [Some day between 12 and 18
May.]
1964
-- Lenmac Enterprises Limited, music publishing company, is
incorporated, with Brian one of its opening directors.
1965
-- `Ticket To Ride' number 1, 5th and last week (UK New
Musical Express chart).
-- Last day of `Help!' shootings, at Twickenham Studios,
London.
1966
-- Studio 3 (control room only). 1.45-3.30pm. Mono mixing:
`Doctor Robert' (remix 4, from take 7); `I'm Only Sleeping' (remix 5,
from take 13); `And Your Bird Can Sing' (remixes 7, 8, from takes 10,
6) . Editing: `And Your Bird Can Sing' (of mono remixes 7, 8);
`Doctor Robert' (of mono remix 4). Producer: George Martin; Engineer:
Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Jerry Boys.
Remixes of `Doctor Robert', `I'm Only Sleeping' and `And Your
Bird Can Sing' for ``Yesterday'... And Today'.
1967
-- Studio 2. 7.00pm-12.30am. Recording: `All Together Now' (takes
1-9). Mono mixing: `All Together Now' (remixes 1-6, from take 9).
Producer: not assigned; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer:
Richard Lush.
1968
-- John and Paul hold the first board meeting of Apple Corps,
in a Chinese junk sailing around New York's Statue of
Liberty.
1st day of official work of Ron Kass in Apple Records. Capitol
Records gives Kass a check for 1250 dollars.
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13 May
1963
-- 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.]
1964
-- `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).
1967
-- Psychiatrist John Flood writes that the main Brian's
symptomms are insomnia, depression and excessive
irritability.
1969
-- On a front-page article of the `Financial Times', ATV
announces it lacks less than 150 000 shares to have the 47 %
of Northern Songs.
-- EMI House. 6pm. Photographic session with Angus McBean for the
`Get Back' LP cover.
1970
-- World premiere of `Let It Be' in New York.
1982
-- Original 24-track tape of `As Far As We Can Go' is sent to Joe
Walsh at Santa Barbara Sound studio, Santa Barbara, USA.
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14 May
1963
-- Concert at the Rank, Sutherland.
-- John and Cynthia register Julian. [Some day between 12 and 18
May.]
1968
-- The Beatles book Studio 2 for 2.30-12.00pm, from Monday to
Friday, from 20 May to 26 July.
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15 May
1963
-- `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.]
1964
-- Gerry and the Pacemakers (Films) Limited, film production
company, is incorporated, with Epstein one of its opening
directors.
1967
-- Performance of Georgie Fame and the Blue Fames at the Bag
O'Nails. Paul and Linda attend, meeting for the first time.
1968
-- John and Paul, in New York, appear on the TV show `Tonight',
promoting Apple. Paul and Linda meet again.
During a press conference, John and Paul announce they've
ended relationships with the Maharishi.
1969
-- Failure of a possible meeting of the Beatles and minor
Northern Songs Ltd. share owners, to avoid ATV's control
over the company.
-- John goes to the US Embassy in London, to try an American
visa.
1971
-- Exhibition of the films `Apotheosis' and `Fly' in the Film
Festival of Fortnight, France.
1996
-- British television broadcasts for the first time footage of
the Beatles playing at the Casanova club (filmed 14 February 1961).
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16 May
1963
-- 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.
1964
-- `Can't Buy Me Love', 7th week in the Top 30 (Billboard).
1965
-- Party at Norman Newell's house, 40 Montagu Mansions,
Marylebone, London, thrown for Johnny Mathis. John attends.
1966
-- Article on the newspaper `Palladium' of Richmond, Indiana:
`Beatles Will Slip In Couple Of Years Manager Says During
Stopover In City'. Seemingly someone posed as Brian and gave
this false new.
-- Studio 2. 2.30pm-1.30am. Recording: `Taxman' (overdub onto
take 12). Tape copying: `Granny Smith' (working title of `Love You
To') (copies of mono remix 3, numbered mono remixes 4, 5). Mono
mixing: `Taxman' (remixes 2-5, from take 12). Recording: `For No One'
(overdub onto take 10, tape reduction take 10 into takes 13, 14 [no
takes numbered 11 or 12]). Tape copying: `Taxman' (of remix mono 4);
`Granny Smith' (working title of `Love You To') (of remix mono 5);
`Mark I' (working title of `Tomorrow Never Knows') (of remix mono 8).
Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil
McDonald.
Recording of `One, two, three, four' intro for `Taxman'.
1967
-- NEMS Enterprises, of the UK, and Nemperor Artists, of the
USA, sign a 3-year agreement allowing for each company to
exclusively represent the other in their respective
territories.
1969
-- Ringo boards the `Queen Elizabeth II' to sail to the USA for
the filming of `The Magic Christian'. He travels
with Maureen, their two children, Peter Sellers, George and
Pattie.
John and Yoko decide to live permanently in the USA. John and
Yoko are scheduled to join Ringo and the others on the trip, but had
to cancel at the last moment since John does not get his visa.
1970
-- `Let It Be' single, 10th week in the Top 30 (Billboard).
`Live Peace In Toronto', 19th week in the ranking
(Billboard).
1975
-- Michael X is executed.
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17 May
1963
-- 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.
1964
-- Radio Luxembourg broadcasts the second and last part of the
programme `This Is Their Life', about the Beatles.
1967
-- Studio 2. 7.00pm-2.30am. Recording: `You Know My Name (Look
Up The Number)' (Part 1, takes 1-14). Producer and Engineer: Geoff
Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Richard Lush.
-- John Flood suggests Brian to have himself checked into the
Priory Hospital, Roehampton, for a complete rest. He is
admitted to it.
1968
-- UK LP release: `McGough & McGear'.
-- `Wonderwall' premiere in Cannes.
George, Ringo, Pattie and Maureen attend.
1969
-- `Yellow Submarine' LP, 18th week in the Top 100
(Billboard).
`Get Back', 2nd week in the Top 30 (Billboard).
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18 May
1963
-- `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.]
1964
-- 10.00-12.00am. BBC's `From Us To You' (3rd edition)
broadcast (recorded 1 May 1964).
-- BBC-radio broadcasts `Monday Bank Holiday'.
1966
-- `Rubber Soul', 24th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical
Express chart).
-- Studio 2. 2.30pm-2.30am. Recording: `Got To Get You Into My
Life' (overdub onto take 8, tape reduction take 8 into takes 9-11,
overdub onto take 9). Mono mixing: `Got To Get You Into My Life'
(remixes 1, 2, from take 9). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff
Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald.
First Beatles' use of brasses.
1967
-- Signing of contract for appearance on `Our World'.
-- Olympic Sound Studios, London. Rolling Stones session,
recording `We Love You'. John and Paul attend and add backing vocals.
-- Serpentine Road, Hyde Park. Photographic session with Marvin
Lichtner (for `Time' magazine) and Mal Evans (for `The Beatles
Book').
1970
-- US LP release: `Let It Be'.
-- Premiere of `Let It Be' in New York.
1989
-- Paul's performance for West Germany TV show `Mensch Meir'.
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19 May
1945
-- Peter Townsend is born.
1963
-- Concert at the Gaumont, Hanley (3rd British tour).
1965
-- Brian returns to England from his vacations in Spain.
-- `Ticket To Ride', 6th week in the Top 10 (UK New
Musical Express chart).
1966
-- Brian returns from Spain to watch the shooting of clips for
`Paperback Writer'/`Rain' at Chiswick House, London (EMI
Studios).
-- Studio 1. Most of the day: shooting of clips for `Paperback
Writer'/`Rain'.
During a lunchtime break from shooting, the Beatles go to
Genevieve, French restaurant.
Studio 3. 7.00-11.00pm. Recording: `For No One' (overdub onto take
14). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer:
Phil McDonald.
Recording of horn solo for `For No One'.
1967
-- Brian returns from the Priory Hospital in Putney, London, to
host a press launch for `Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band' in the drawing room at 24 Chapel Street. After the
party, Epstein returns to the Priory.
1968
-- Housewarming party thrown by Harold Pinter, 7 Hanover Terrace,
London, with all Beatles in attendance.
1969
-- The 3 main Northern Songs share owners and ATV sign an
agreement. John and Paul lose control over the company.
-- US gold certification: `Get Back'/`Don't Let Me Down'.
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20 May
1930
-- Marriage of Harold Harrison and Louise French.
1960
-- Contract with Paramount Enterprises, to play the Grosvenor
Ballroom, Wallasey.
-- Start of tour of Scotland as backup band for Johnny Gentle.
1963
-- Concert at the Gaumont, Southampton (3rd British tour).
1964
-- `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.
1966
-- Studio 1 (control room only). 11.00am-12.30pm. Stereo mixing:
`And Your Bird Can Sing' (remixes 1, 2, from takes 10, 6); `Doctor
Robert' (remixes 1, 2, from take 7); `I'm Only Sleeping' (remixes 1,
2, from take 13). Editing: `And Your Bird Can Sing' (of stereo
remixes 1, 2); `Doctor Robert' (of stereo remixes 1, 2). Producer:
George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald.
Mixes for ``Yesterday'... And Today' and `Revolver'.
-- Shooting of clips for `Paperback Writer'/`Rain' at Chiswick
House and Gardens, London.
-- John and Cynthia attend an all-night party with Mick Jagger
and Chrissie Shrimpton.
1967
-- Epstein temporarily leaves the Priory Hospital for an
afternoon tea with Ringo and his family at their Weybridge
house. John and George attend. Later, Brian returns to the
clinic.
1969
-- John and George visit Bruce Ormrod at offices of Henry
Ansbacher & Co., to discuss ATV's bid with the syndicates.
1970
-- Premiere of `Let It Be' at the London Pavilion and
Liverpool.
-- Evening: George goes to the studio with Phil Spector,
beginning work on LP `All Things Must Pass'.
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21 May
1963
-- 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'.
1964
-- US single release: `Sie Liebt Dich'/`I'll Get You'.
1966
-- Morning. After partying with Mick Jagger and Chrissie
Shrimpton, John and Cynthia shop at the market at Portobello Road,
London.
1967
-- Brian temporarily leaves the Priory Hospital, in Putney, for
an afternoon tea with his parents at 24 Chapel Street.
1971
-- UK LP release: `Ram'.
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22 May
1963
-- `Please Please Me' LP, 9th week in the Top 10 (UK
New Musical Express chart).
-- Concert at the Gaumont, Ipswich (3rd British tour).
1964
-- 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.
1965
-- `Ticket To Ride' number 1, 1st and last week (Billboard).
1967
-- Announcement of appearance on the programme `Our World'.
1968
-- John declares that the Vietnam war is matter of insane
people in an interview screened in the US.
-- Club Dell'Aretusa, London. Lunchtime party for friends and
press, on occasion of the opening of Apple Tailoring (Civil And
Theatrical). Attendance of John, Yoko, George and Pattie. 1st public
appearance together of John and Yoko.
After the party, John and Yoko walk along King's Road to the new
Apple shop (161 King's Road) for photographers.
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23 May
1960
-- Johnny Gentle crashes the van carrying himself and the
Beatles. Tommy Moore is hit in the mouth by a guitar.
1963
-- Concert at the Odeon, Nottingham (3rd British tour).
1964
-- `Can't Buy Me Love', 8th week in the Top 30 (Billboard).
-- Brian begins a week end in Blackpool (Whitsun holiday).
1965
-- Brian debuts on ABC-TV's live programme `The Eamonn Andrews
Show', from Teddington Studios. During the programme he
reveals that his greatest ambition is to act in a play.
1968
-- John and George open Apple Tailoring (Civil And Theatrical) at
161 King's Road, London.
1970
-- `Let It Be' single, 11th week in the Top 30 (Billboard).
`Live Peace In Toronto', 20th week in the ranking
(Billboard).
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24 May
1941
-- Bob Dylan is born.
1963
-- Concert in Harrow (3rd British tour).
Evening: Two performances at the Granada, Walthamstowe, London
(3rd British tour).
1964
-- Transmision on the Ed Sullivan Show of the interview
recorded on 16 April 1964, and playing of a song.
1969
-- `Yellow Submarine' LP, 19th week in the Top 100
(Billboard).
`Get Back' number 1, 1st week; 3rd week in the Top 30
(Billboard).
-- John, Yoko and Kyoko fly from London to Bahamas.
John, Yoko and Kyoko in Bahamas, for a campaign for peace:
`Lie-in'.
-- John and Yoko create Bag Productions.
1982
-- UK single release: `Beatles' Movie Medley'/`I'm Happy Just
To Dance With You'.
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25 May
1960
-- The Cavern changes style and opens its doors to rock'n'roll
groups.
1963
-- `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'.
1964
-- Brian ends his Whitsun holiday in Blackpool.
1966
-- `Rubber Soul', 25th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical
Express chart).
1967
-- John's Rolls Royce, psychedelically painted, is delivered to
John's house from J P Fallon (Coachworks).
-- Brian leaves the Priory Hospital, in Putney, London, and
returns home to Chapel Street.
Evening: Brian attends a concert of Georgie Fame and Count
Basie at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Brian announces a big party to be thrown at Kingsley Hill.
-- Apple Music Limited is incorporated, with Brian one of its
opening directors.
-- De Lane Lea Music Recording Studios. Time unknown.
Recording: `Too Much' (working title of `It's All Too Much') (tape
reduction take 4 into takes 1, 2, overdub onto take 2). Producer: not
assigned; Engineer: Dave Siddle; 2nd Engineer: Mike Weighell.
1969
-- John, Yoko and Kyoko go to Canada during their campaign for
peace.
1977
-- UK LP release: `The Beatles Live! At The Star Club In
Hamburg, Germany; 1962'.
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26 May
1963
-- Concert at the Empire, Liverpool (3rd British tour).
1965
-- Number 1 Studio, Piccadilly Theatre, London. 2.30-6.00pm.
Recording for BBC's `The Beatles (Invite You To Take A
Ticket To Ride)': `Ticket To Ride'; `Everybody's Trying To
Be My Baby'; `I'm A Loser'; `The Night Before'; `Honey
Don't'; `Dizzy Miss Lizzy'; `She's A Woman'; `Ticket To
Ride'.
Last BBC session.
-- `Ticket To Ride', 7th and last week in the Top 10 (UK New
Musical Express chart).
1966
-- Studio 3. 7.00pm-1.00am. Recording: `Yellow Submarine' (takes
1-4, tape reduction take 4 into take 5). Producer: not assigned;
Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald.
1967
-- De Lane Lea Music Recording Studios. Time unknown.
Recording: `Too Much' (working title of `It's All Too Much') (tape
reduction take 4 into takes 1, 2, overdub onto take 2). Producer:
not assigned; Engineer: Dave Siddle; 2nd Engineer: Mike Weighell.
1968
-- Albert Memorial and surrounding gardens, London. Shooting of
clip for `Elevator', by Grapefruit, directed by Paul.
1969
-- US LP release: `Unfinished Music Number 2---Life With The
Lions'.
US LP release: `Electronic Sounds'.
-- John, Yoko and Kyoko arrive in Toronto. They spend two hours
and a half in customs.
Start of 2nd John and Yoko's bed-in in Montreal, Room 1742,
Queen Elizabeth Hotel.
1970
-- EMI Studios. Start of recording of LP `All Things Must
Pass'.
-- US gold certification: `Let It Be'.
1973
-- Wings concert in London.
-- The Cavern opens for the last time.
1993
-- Paul's concert in Boulder (`The New World Tour').
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27 May
1963
-- US single release: `From Me To You'/`Thank You Girl'.
1963
-- Concert at the Capitol, Cardiff (3rd British tour).
1964
-- `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.
1966
-- Bob Dylan's concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
Afternoon. Before the concert, the Beatles visit Dylan at the
May Fair Hotel, London.
Evening. Paul and Neil with Dylan and members of the Rolling
Stones at Dolly's night-club, London.
1967
-- Magazine `Melody Maker' publishes John's declarations
confirming that they will not present in concert again.
-- Brian celebrates Cilla Black's birthday having birthday
greetings illuminated in Piccadilly Circus, London, and in
Birmingham, Bristol, and Manchester.
1979
-- John and Yoko publish in the main newspapers of New York,
London and Tokyo an open letter entitled `A love letter from
John and Yoko to people who ask us what, when and why'.
1995
-- Westwood One broadcasts `Oobu Joobu', Parts 1 and 2.
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28 May
1963
-- Concert at the Gaumont, Worcester (3rd British tour).
1966
-- The Beatles visit Dylan at the May Fair Hotel, London.
1967
-- Epstein throws a party at Kingsley Hill. Guests, among
others: John, George, Ringo and their wives; Lionel Bart,
John Pritchard, Kenny Everett, Nat Weiss, Mick Jagger,
Marianne Faithfull, Robert Stigwood, Derek Taylor and his
wife Joan. Paul, absent.
1969
-- Studio 1, Olympic Sound Studios. Time unknown. Stereo mixing:
`Let It Be' (of take 27). Master tape banding and compilation: `Get
Back' LP. Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Glyn Johns; 2nd
Engineer: Steve Vaughan.
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29 May
1963
-- `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).
1964
-- UK single release: `Ain't She Sweet'/`If You Love Me Baby'.
UK single release: `Nobody I Know', with Peter and Gordon.
1966
-- In Spain, the bullfighter Miguelin names a bull after
Brian.
-- The Beatles visit Dylan at the May Fair Hotel, London.
1968
-- 2.30-12.00pm. Time booked to begin sessions for LP `The
Beatles', at Studio 3. Cancelled.
1982
-- 1st day of radio transmision in the US of material included
on BBC's programme for the Beatles 1st BBC session 20th
anniversary, plus some additional material from BBC
sessions.
1993
-- Paul's concert in San Antonio, USA (`The New World Tour').
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30 May
1963
-- Concert at the Odeon, Manchester (3rd British tour).
Concert at the Granada, Kingston (3rd British tour).
1964
-- `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.
1966
-- US single release: `Paperback Writer'/`Rain', double A side.
-- Autograph hunters chase by car John in a Mini. John's Rolls
Royce is stopped in Bushy Park Road, Teddington, Middlesex, by the
police, and fined for speeding. The Mini is also stopped. The chasers
get their autographs after the police finishes with John.
-- Brian flies from Madrid to New York to arrange the next
American tour.
1968
-- Studio 2. 2.30pm-2.40am. Recording: `Revolution' (working
title of `Revolution 1') (takes 1-18). Producer: George Martin;
Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald.
Start of sessions for `The Beatles'. 1st time Yoko is
present at the studio. Visit at the studio: Chris Thomas. Recording
of rythm track, base for `Revolution 1' and `Revolution 9'.
1969
-- UK single release: `The Ballad Of John And Yoko'/`Old Brown
Shoe', 1st single in Britain and 1st Beatles release not
mixed for mono.
1970
-- `Let It Be' single, 12th week in the Top 30 (Billboard).
`Live Peace In Toronto', 21st week in the ranking
(Billboard).
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31 May
1962
-- Date of end of Hamburg contract.
-- `Mersey Beat' announces Beatles recording contract with EMI
[?].
1963
-- 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.
1964
-- Two performances at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London, for
Brian's `Pops Alive!' show.
1966
-- `Sunny Heights'. Photographic session of Ringo with `Beatles
Book' photographer Leslie Bryce for the magazine's `at home' series.
1967
-- `Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' LP, number 1 selling
LP.
1968
-- Studio 3. 2.30-12.00pm. Recording: `Revolution' (working
title of `Revolution 1') (overdub onto take 18, tape reduction take
18 into take 19, overdub onto take 19). Producer: George Martin;
Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald.
1969
-- `Yellow Submarine' LP, 20th week in the Top 100
(Billboard).
`Get Back' number 1, 2nd week; 4th week in the Top 30
(Billboard).
1977
-- US single release: `Seaside Woman'.
1978
-- End of LP `London Town' sessions at Record Plant Mobile
Studio, aboard the yatch `Fair Carol', Virgin Islands. End of LP
`London Town' recordings.
1982
-- Last day of radio transmision in the US of material included
on BBC's programme for the Beatles 1st BBC session 20th
anniversary, plus some additional material from BBC
sessions.
-- Santa Barbara Sound studio, Santa Barbara, USA. Mix of `As Far
As We Can Go' with horns only.
1993
-- Paul's concert in Kansas City (`The New World Tour').