Beatles
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1922
Feb 21, Murray "the K" Kaufman, NYC DJ (5th Beatle),
was born.
(MC, 2/21/02)
1943 Feb 25, George Harrison (d.
Nov 29, 2001) of the Beatles was born.
(SFC, 11/30/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A2)
1955 May 10, Mark David Chapman,
assassin (John Lennon), was born.
(MC, 5/10/02)
1960 Aug 18, Beatles gave their
1st public performance at Kaiser Keller in Hamburg.
(MC, 8/18/02)
1962 Aug 16, The Beatles dropped
Pete Best as their drummer. They took on Ringo Starr on Aug 17. Best
later authored the autobiography "Beatle! The Pete Best Story."
(SFC, 7/5/02, p.G5)(MC, 8/16/02)
1962 Aug 17, Beatles replaced Pete
Best with Ringo Starr.
(SC, 8/17/02)
1963 Aug 3, Beatles made a final
performance the Cavern Club in Liverpool.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1963 Aug 23, Beatles released "She
Loves You" in UK.
(MC, 8/23/02)
1963 Sep 7, The Beatles made their
1st US TV appearance on ABC’s Big Night Out.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1963 Dec 10, Walter Cronkite
re-aired a CBS News report from London on the Beatles. It had been 1st
filed on Nov 22, the day JFK was assassinated.
(SSFC, 2/8/04, Par p.18)
1964 Jan 18, Beatles 1st appeared
on Billboard Chart at #35 for "I Want to Hold Your Hand." The song hit
No. 1 by the end of the month.
(MC, 1/18/02)(SSFC, 2/8/04, Par p.18)
1964 Jan, The Beatles made their
North America TV debut on the Jack Paar Show. [see Feb 9, 1964]
(SFC, 1/28/04, p.A1)
1964 Feb 3, "Meet the Beatles"
album went Gold.
(MC, 2/3/02)
1964 Feb 7, The British band
The Beatles began their first American tour as they arrived at New
York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, where they were greeted
by 25,000 screaming fans.
(SFEM, 3/9/96, p.35)(AP, 2/7/97)(HN, 2/7/99)
1964 Feb 9, The Beatles made their
first live American television appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
[see Jan, 1964]
(AP, 2/9/99)
1964 Feb 11, The Beatles 1st live
appearance in US was in the Washington, DC Coliseum. It was
filmed by CBS.
(SFC, 3/6/04, p.D17)
1964 Feb 12, The Beatles played 2
shows at Carnegie Hall.
(SFC, 3/6/04, p.D17)
1964 Feb 16, The Beatles made
their 2nd appearance on the "Ed Sullivan Show" from the Deauville Hotel
in Miami.
(SFC, 3/6/04, p.D17)
1964 Feb 18, The Beatles visited
Cassius Clay in training for his match with heavyweight champion Sonny
Liston.
(SFC, 3/6/04, p.D17)
1964 Feb 23, The Beatles' 3rd TV
appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, taped in NYC 2 weeks earlier, aired.
(SFC, 3/6/04, p.D17)
1964 Mar 2, Beatles began filming
"A Hard Day's Night."
(SC, 3/2/02)
1964 Mar 21, Beatles' "She Loves
You," single went #1 and stayed #1 for 2 weeks.
(MC, 3/21/02)
1964 May 18, David Frost
interviewed Paul McCartney on the BBC.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1964 Jun 26, Beatles released "A
Hard Day's Night" album.
(MC, 6/26/02)
1964 Jul 2, Celia Black recorded
Beatle's "Its For You" with McCartney on piano.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1964 Jul 6, Beatles' film "Hard
Day's Night" premiered in London.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1964 Jul 11(Jun 11), Queen
Elizabeth ordered Beatles to her birthday party and they attended.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1964 Jul 25, Beatles' "Hard Day's
Night, A," album went #1 and stayed #1 for 14 weeks.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1964 Aug 1, Beatles' "Hard Day's
Night" single went #1.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1964 Aug 11, Beatles' "A Hard Days
Night" opened in NYC.
(MC, 8/11/02)
1964 Aug 19, The Beatles performed
a concert at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca. They returned there for
another concert in 1965.
(www.rarebeatles.com/photopg7/sf81964.htm)
1965 Feb 24, Beatles began filming
"Help" in Bahamas.
(MC, 2/24/02)
1965 Apr 13, Beatles recorded
"Help."
(MC, 4/13/02)
1965 Jul 29, Beatles movie "Help"
premiered and Queen Elizabeth attended.
(MC, 7/29/02)
1965 Aug 11, Beatles movie "Help"
opened in NYC.
(MC, 8/11/02)
1965 Aug 14, The Beatles taped an
appearance for the Ed Sullivan Show.
(MC, 8/14/02)
1965 Aug 15, Beatles played to
55,000 at Shea Stadium.
(MC, 8/15/02)
1965 Aug 31, The Beatles returned
to the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca., for another concert.
(www.geocities.com/bratbear_51/cowpalacebeatles.html)
1966 Mar 4, John Lennon said: "We
(Beatles) are more popular than Jesus." Radio stations in the
Netherlands and in Spain quickly banned the playing of Beatle records
as did the South African Broadcasting Corporation, stating that "The
Beatles' arrogance has passed the ultimate limit of decency. It is
clowning no longer."
(www.beatles.ws/1966.htm)
1966 May 1, Last British concert
by Beatles was at Empire Pool in Wembley.
(MC, 5/1/02)
1966 Jul 4, Beatles were attacked
in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos.
(Maggio, 98)
1966 Jul 31, Alabamans burned
Beatle products due to John Lennon's remark that the Beatles are more
popular than Jesus.
(MC, 7/31/02)
1966 Aug 5, Beatles released their
"Revolver" album in US.
(MC, 8/5/02)
1966 Aug 5, Beatles released
"Yellow Submarine" and "Eleanor Rigby" in UK.
(MC, 8/5/02)
1966 Aug 8, South African
Broadcasting banned the Beatles for Lennon's anti-Jesus remark.
(MC, 8/8/02)
1966 Aug 20, The Beatles were
pelted with rotten fruit during a Memphis concert.
(MC, 8/20/02)
1966 Aug 22, The Beatles arrived
in NYC.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1966 Aug 29, The Beatles concluded
their fourth American tour with their last public concert, at
Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
(AP, 8/29/97)
1966 Sep 10, The Beatles'
"Revolver," album went #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1966 Sep 12, The Beatles received
a gold record for "Yellow Submarine."
(MC, 9/12/01)
1966 Nov 24, The Beatles began
recording sessions for "Sgt Pepper."
(MC, 11/24/01)
1966 Nov 28, US LP release: "The
Beatles Girls," instrumental LP by George Martin.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1967 Feb 17, Beatles released
"Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields."
(MC, 2/17/02)
1967 Mar 2, At the 9th Grammy
Awards: Strangers in Night and Michele won.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1967 May 20, BBC banned Beatle's
"A Day in the Life" due to drug references.
(MC, 5/20/02)
1967 May 25, John Lennon took
delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1967 Jul 1, Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band," went #1 for 15 weeks.
(MC, 7/1/02)
1967 Jul 7, Beatles' "All You Need
is Love" was released.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1967 Aug 19, Beatles' "All You
Need is Love," single went #1.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1967 Aug 25, Beatles went to Wales
to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1967 Aug 27, Brian Epstein (32),
manager of the Beatles, was found dead in his London flat from an
overdose of sleeping pills.
(AP, 8/27/97)
1967 Sep 11, The Beatles drove
their Magical Mystery Bus around England.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1967 Dec 26, BBC-1 television
aired "Magical Mystery Tour," the Beatles' critically drubbed one-hour
special.
(AP, 12/26/07)
1968 May 14, Beatles announced the
formation of their Apple Corp.
(MC, 5/14/02)
1968 Aug 30, The Beatle's recorded
Hey Jude, their 1st record under the Apple label.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1969 Mar 1, After 88 weeks
Sergeant Pepper dropped off the charts.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1969 Mar 12, Paul McCartney
married Linda Eastman in London.
(AP, 3/12/98)
1969 Mar 20, John Lennon married
Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.
(AP, 3/20/97)(HN, 3/20/98)
1969 Mar 25, John and Yoko Ono
staged a bed-in for peace in Amsterdam.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1969 Apr 24, Paul McCartney denied
rumors he is dead.
(MC, 4/24/02)
1970 Feb 26, Beatles released
"Beatles Again," aka the "Hey Jude" album.
(www.dmbeatles.com/disk.php?disk=54)
1970 Mar 6, The Beatles released
"Let it Be" in UK.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_(song))
1970 Apr 9, Paul McCartney
announced the official split of the Beatles.
(HN, 4/9/98)
1970 Apr 11, The Beatles' "Let It
Be" single was released in the US and quickly went to #1.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_(song))
1970 May 15, Beatles' last LP,
"Let It Be," was released in US.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1970 May 20, The Beatles movie
"Let it Be" premiered in Britain. The documentary film was about a
Beatles’ recording session.
(SFEC, 3/8/98, DB
p.47)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0065976/)
1970 Jun 13, Beatles' "Let It Be,"
album went #1 & stayed #1 for 4 weeks.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be)
1970 Nov 23, George Harrison
released "My Sweet Lord" in the US.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sweet_Lord)
1970 Dec 31, Paul McCartney filed
a lawsuit to dissolve the Beatles’ partnership.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney)
1971 Jan 15, George Harrison’s "My
Sweet Lord" was released in the UK. The US release was in 1970.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sweet_Lord)
1971 Jan 29, "My Sweet Lord" by
George Harrison hit #1 on UK pop chart.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_No.1_Hits_of_1971)
1971 Mar 3, South African
Broadcasting Corp lifted its ban on the Beatles.
(www.southafrica.to/history/history1948.htm)
1971 Aug 1, The Concert For
Bangladesh, two benefit concerts organized by George Harrison and Ravi
Shankar, played to a total of 40,000 people at Madison Square Garden.
{Bangladesh, Pop&Rock, NYC, Beatles}
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concert_for_Bangladesh)
1971 Aug 3, Paul McCartney
announced the formation of his group Wings.
(www.rockhall.com/inductee/paul-mccartney)
1971 Aug 31, John Lennon left UK
for NYC, never to return.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon)
1971 Sep 9, John Lennon released
his mega hit "Imagine" album in the US. It was released in Britain on
October 8.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(album))
1971 Dec 10, John Lennon made a
public appearance at a benefit concert for poet John Sinclair who was
in jail for possession of marijuana. Three days later Sinclair was
released.
(SFEC, 7/21/96, DB p.35)
1972 Feb 25, Wings released "Give
Ireland Back to the Irish." Paul and Linda McCartney wrote the song in
response to the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland on January
30, 1972. It was soon banned by the BBC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_Ireland_Back_to_the_Irish)
1973 Mar 23, Yoko Ono was granted
permanent residence in US. John Lennon was given a final order to leave
the US within 60 days, while Yoko was allowed to remain indefinitely.
(http://specialsections.absoluteelsewhere.net/LennonLoreLegacy/nutopia.html)
1973 May 25, George Harrison
released "Give Me Love" in UK.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_Me_Love_(Give_Me_Peace_on_Earth))
1973 Jun 1, Paul McCartney &
Wings released "Live & Let Die"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_Let_Die_(song))
1973 Oct 24, John Lennon sued the
US government to admit FBI was tapping his phone.
(http://tinyurl.com/4xox8x)
1973 Dec 5, Paul McCartney
released his "Band on the Run" album.
(www.amazon.com/Band-Run-Paul-McCartney-Wings/dp/B000002UCL)
1974 Nov 28, John Lennon
(1940-1980) made what would become his last concert appearance at an
Elton John concert at New York's Madison Square Garden. Lennon joined
Elton John to sing "Whatever Gets You Through the Night", "Lucy In The
Sky With Diamonds", as well as "I Saw Her Standing There". Backstage,
Lennon has a brief reunion with Yoko Ono, from whom he'd been separated
for over a year.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon)
1975 Mar 2, Linda McCartney
(1941-1998) was arrested in Los Angeles with possession of marijuana.
(www.philbrodieband.com/music_trivia-yesterdays_march.htm)
1975 Oct 7, US decided John Lennon
won't be deported due to UK pot conviction.
(http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=618)
1976 Mar 26, Wings released "Wings
at the Speed of Sound" album.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1976 Jul 27, John Lennon was
granted a green card for permanent residence in US.
(http://beatlesnumber9.com/usvjohnlennon.html)
1976 Aug 31, George Harrison
(1943-2001) was found guilty of plagiarizing "My Sweet Lord."
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0365600/bio)(http://nfo.net/calendar/aug31.htm)
1976 Nov 19, Patty Hearst was
freed on $1.5 million bail. She returned to her family’s home at 1001
California St.
(HN, 11/19/98)(SFC, 11/16/01, WB p.G4)
1977 May 25, "Beatles Live! At the
Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" was released.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1978 Apr 26, A version of Mark
Twain’s "The Prince and the Pauper" appeared on TV with former Beatle,
Ringo Star.
{TV, Beatles, USA, Britain, Pop&Rock}
(www.guba.com/watch/2000907534)(440 Int’l., 4/26/97,
p.3)
1978 Jul 24, The Beatles’ animated
film "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premiered in the US.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0078239/)
1979 Mar 23, Paul McCartney and
Wings released "Goodnight Tonight."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Tonight)
1980 Jan 16, Paul McCartney was
arrested in Tokyo for marijuana possession. He was released and
deported on Jan 25.
(www.taima.org/en/hemplib3.htm#mccartney)
1980 Jan 25, Paul McCartney
was released from Tokyo jail & deported.
(www.taima.org/en/hemplib3.htm#mccartney)
1980 Sep 22, John Lennon signed
with Geffen Records. The Lennon LP, "Double Fantasy", was released on
Geffen. Lennon was assassinated on December 8, 1980.
(www.jpgr.co.uk/k99131.html)
1980 Dec 8, John Lennon, musician
and one of the Beatles, was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman
outside his New York City apartment building. Chapman was a
schizophrenic with the delusion that he himself was John. In 1984 Prof.
Jonathan M. Wiener wrote a book on Lennon and later got the FBI to
surrender its secret files on Lennon.
(SFC, 9/25/97, p.A2)(AP, 12/8/97)
1981 Feb 6, Beatles McCartney,
Starr & Harrison recorded "All Those Years Ago," a tribute to John
Lennon.
(www.440.com/twtd/archives/feb06.html)
1981 Feb 19, George Harrison was
ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My
Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine."
(http://digital-law-online.info/cases/221PQ490.htm)
1981 Aug 25, Mark Chapman,
John Lennon's murderer, was sentenced to 20 years.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1982 Feb 21, Murray Kaufman
(b.1922), NYC DJ also known as Murray the K, died. During the early
days of Beatlemania, he was frequently referred to as "the Fifth
Beatle."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_the_K)
1982 Mar 26, Paul McCartney and
Stevie Wonder released "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1984 Jan 15, Police raided the
vacation home of Paul and Linda McCartney (1941-1998) following a tip.
Both were arrested on possession of cannabis.
(http://leftofcentrist.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html)
1984 Mar 21, A ground-breaking
ceremony was held as part of NYC’s Central Park was named Strawberry
Fields honoring John Lennon.
(www.centralpark.com/pages/attractions/strawberry-fields.html)
1984 Apr 25, Rock group Wings
disbanded.
(SS, 4/25/02)
1986 Sep 1, Paul McCartney
released his "Press to Play" album.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1987 Feb 26, British stores
released the 1st Beatles compact discs.
(www.guardian.co.uk/thebeatles/story/0,,606496,00.html)
1995 Nov 21-1995 Nov 28, In one
week of sales, `The Beatles Anthology 1' beat sales record in the US:
855,473 copies. Previous record: Michael Jackson's `History', 391,000
copies.
(www.4reference.net/encyclopedias/wikipedia/The_Beatles.html)
1997 Mar 11, Rock star Paul
McCartney was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1998 Apr 17, Linda McCartney (56),
wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney, died in Santa Barbara, Ca. Santa
Barbara claimed no record and it was later determined that she died in
Arizona.
(SFC, 4/20/98, p.A1)(SFC, 4/23/98, p.A1)(SFC,
4/24/98, p.A1)(AP, 4/19/99)
2001 Nov 29, George Harrison
(b.1943), lead guitarist for the Beatles, died of cancer in LA. His
ashes were scattered in the Ganges Dec 4.
(SFC, 11/30/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A2)(NW,
12/31/01, p.109)
2008 Mar 17, A judge awarded
Heather Mills a total of $48.6 million in the financial settlement of
her divorce from former Beatle Paul McCartney. This was a fifth of what
she had demanded.
(AP, 3/17/08)(Econ, 3/22/08, p.65)
2008 Mar 24, Neil Aspinall
(b.1941)), Beatle associate and boss of Apple Corps, died in NYC.
(Econ, 4/5/08,
p.90)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Aspinall)
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