A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE BEATLES

• 1966: Recording, mixing: Here, There And Everywhere, Got To Get You Into My Life . Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
• Producer: George Martin
  Engineer: Geoff Emerick
  The recording of two Revolver songs was completed during this session, which began at 7pm and finished at 1.30am the following morning.
  Here, There And Everywhere received some harmony vocals by Paul McCartney, for the lines “Love never dies/Watching her eyes”, and George Harrison added some lead guitar.
  Harrison then overdubbed a guitar solo onto Got To Get You Into My Life, a song which The Beatles had begun during the second Revolver session on 7 April 1966.
  The solo was dropped into a track also featuring vocals, organ and tambourine, which had been recorded on 18 May. It can be heard from 1’45-2’06 on the finished recording.
  Five mono mixes of Got To Get You Into My Life were made towards the end of the session. The last of these was treated with additional brass and woodwind on 20 June 1966, the result of tape copying and remixing of the 18 May trumpet and saxophone overdub.
   

• 1966: Paul McCartney purchases High Park Farm in Kintyre, Scotland
• 1965: Recording, mixing: Yesterday, Act Naturally, Wait.Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
  Producer: George Martin
  Engineer: Norman Smith
  Yesterday was completed on this day with the recording of a string quartet, and a new lead vocal by Paul.
  
  
  The session began at 2pm and lasted two hours. Onto take two from the 14 June session, McCartney re-recorded his lead vocals, as the string quartet performed the score written by McCartney and George Martin.
  
  The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, Mark Lewisohn
  The musicians were Tony Gilbert (first violin), Sidney Sax (violin), Kenneth Essex (viola) and Francisco Gabarro (cello). After recording was complete the song was mixed for mono.
  From 4-5.30pm The Beatles recorded Act Naturally, a country and western song and Ringo Starr‘s vocal spot on the Help! album. The rhythm track was completed in 13 takes, after which Starr overdubbed his vocals, with harmonies from McCartney.
  Between 7pm and 9.30pm The Beatles recorded Wait, which they intended to use on Help!. In the end, however, it was held over until December 1965, when it was released on Rubber Soul.
  Although additional instruments and vocals were overdubbed later in the year, on this day they recorded guitars, bass, drums, and Lennon and McCartney’s lead vocals.
• 1964: Live: Festival Hall, Melbourne.
  The Beatles’ final two shows in Melbourne, Australia took place on this day.
  In the afternoon George went driving in an MG in the Dandenong Mountains with tour organiser Lloyd Ravenscroft. Concerned with more important matters,John,Paul and Ringo had their hair cut in their hotel, the Southern Cross.
  This was The Beatles’ last of three consecutive nights of shows in the city’s Festival Hall, Each night they gave two concerts, which were enjoyed by a total of 45,000 people.
  Cameras from the Australian Channel 9 recorded the sixth and final show of the Melbourne leg of the world tour. It was screened on 1 July 1964 as an hour-long special, The Beatles Sing For Shell, named after the oil company which sponsored the broadcast.
  Nine of The Beatles’ Melbourne performances were included in the show: I Saw Her Standing There, You Can’t Do That, All My Loving, She Loves You, Till There Was You, Roll Over Beethoven, Can’t Buy Me Love, Twist And Shout and Long Tall Sally. During Long Tall Sally, a male audience member rushed onto the stage to shake John Lennon’s hand.
  The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein had initially agreed to allow Channel 9 to show just 12 minutes of the performance. However, after watching the recording an hour after the show he had a change of heart and increased the limit to 20 minutes.
  In the end 22 minutes of The Beatles were included, the rest of the hour being footage of Australian and international performers. The only song from the set not broadcast was This Boy. Full bootleg recordings exist of both concerts from this day.
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• 1963: Radio: Pop Go The Beatles .
  The initial run of The Beatles’ BBC radio show Pop Go The Beatles was intended to have four editions. The last of these was recorded on this day, though more were to follow once the BBC realised they had a hit show.
  The session took place at the BBC’s Maida Vale studios. The Beatles arrived at 10.30am, and rehearsed and recorded six songs: I Saw Her Standing There, Anna (Go To Him), Boys, Chains, PS I Love You and Twist And Shout.
  The recording of PS I Love You is the only known surviving BBC version, although they are known to have performed it on two 1962 sessions as well. The version of Boys, meanwhile, was released on the Baby It’s You EP in 1995.
  
• 1961: Live: Top Ten Club, Hamburg .This was the 78th night of The Beatles’ lengthiest residency in Hamburg, during which they played a total of 92 nights at the Top Ten Club.
  
  The club was owned by Peter Eckhorn, who paid each of The Beatles 35DM (£3) per day. They were required to play from 7pm until 2am each weekday, and until 3am on weekends, with a 15-minute break in each hour.
  The performances at the Top Ten were so successful that Eckhorn twice extended The Beatles’ contract. They eventually left Germany following their final show at the club on 1 July 1961, having performed on stage for 503 hours during their stay.