BEATLES MAGAZINE

Sunday, 18 October 2026

ON THIS DAY.. OCTOBER 18

October 18

1957

Evening: Performance of the Quarrymen in a ball held by the Conservative Club, at the New Clubmoor Hall, Broadway, Liverpool. Paul's debut.
Paul plays for John a couple of tunes he had composed, one of them being 'I Lost My Little Girl'.

1961

Performance at the Cavern, with Ian and the Zodiacs and the Four Jays.

1963

Concert at the Shrewsbury Music Hall.

1964

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.

1965

Studio 2. 2.30-5.45pm. Recording: 'If I Needed Someone' (overdub onto take 1); 'In My Life' (takes 1-3). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott.

Brian returns from the USA.
Evening. Brian attends a Joan Baez concert, at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

1967

Premiere of 'How I Won The War' at the London Pavilion. All 4 Beatles attend.
After, they attend a party at Cilla Black's flat (9 b Portland Place, London).

John and Cynthia see the annual Motor Show at the Earl's Court Exhibition Building, London.

1968

11.30. The police registers John and Yoko's flat, at Montague Square, and arrests them for possession of drugs. They are taken to theMarylebone Lane Police Station. For a short while they stay at lawyer Nicholas Cowan's house (35 Redcliffe Road, West Brompton, London).

Studio 1. 12.00-1.00pm. Tape copying: 'Yer Blues' (of edit of remix mono 3 and edit piece take 1); 'Don't Pass Me By' (of remix mono 1). Producer: not assigned; Engineer: not assigned; 2nd Engineer: John Smith.
Copies made to correct some imperfections of the master tape. End of sessions for 'The Beatles'.

Harry Moss cuts the mono version of 'The Beatles' at Abbey Road.

1974: UK single release: ‘Walking In The Park With Eloise’ was a single credited to The Country Hams, featuring Paul McCartney and Wings drummer Geoff Britton, and other musicians including guitarist Chet Atkins.

1979: Mixing: Cold Cuts by Paul McCartney

1982: UK LP release: '20 Greatest Hits'.
1988: LP release: 'Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1'.

1999: UK album release: Working Classical by Paul McCartney

2002: Paul McCartney live: Rose Garden, Portland

2005: Paul McCartney live: United Center, Chicago

2010: Remastered Red and Blue albums and Harrison/Shankar Collaborations are released

2013: Paul McCartney live: Covent Garden, London

2014: Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts, Jacksonville

2015: Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Fox Theatre, Detroit

2016: Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Keller Auditorium, Portland

2023: Paul McCartney live: Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide

2024: Ringo Starr announces country album Look Up

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Saturday, 17 October 2026

JOHN LENNON: "THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN WITHIN YOU" (1967)

Daily Sketch columnist Anne Nightingale interviewed John Lennon in 1967. The interview was published on October 9th.

Q: "Are you deliberately using the power of the Beatles to spread the word about transcendental meditation?"

JOHN: "Yes, because we've never felt like this about anything else. We want the younger generation, especially, to know about it.

It's for everyone. For 'householders' as the Maharishi calls them. Just for ordinary people. You don't have to be some sort of freak to meditate.

We've got to convince people we are not mystic... get through our million images to show people that what we can do, anyone can do."

Q: "Are you convinced that meditation will last your life, that it won't be just a phase?"

JOHN: "I've got some reservations, of course, but I'm convinced it works in the way they say it works. There's a lot more to learn yet. But I'm willing to find out. You don't have to have a great faith or anything. The whole thing is so simple - as though it's

too marvelous to be true. You think: 'Why haven't I heard about it before?' But in fact, it's been around for a long, long time."

Q: "The Beatles must have been the target for every cult imaginable. What made this so different for you?"

JOHN: "It was always the same package before - Billy Graham stuff. Of course everyone's trying to reach the same thing ultimately.

But the Maharishi's way is natural, not unnatural. You can make it with meditation if you're a Christian, a Mohammedan or a Jew. You just add meditation to whatever religion you've got. It runs alongside Christianity amazingly. Re-read it now, you know, what it's about. The kingdom of heaven within you. It IS within you."

Q: "People have been a bit doubtful about the moral issues with transcendental meditation..."

JOHN: "Obviously you put your own code of ethics into it. No one really wants to go around killing and having orgi*s."

Q: "People like Malcolm Muggeridge have questioned the validity of the Maharishi's meditation..."

JOHN: "And where is Malcolm Muggeridge at? The Maharishi is a completely happy man. Malcolm Muggeridge isn't."

Q: "Would you have found meditation so acceptable if you hadn't taken LSD?"

JOHN: "It's all been misconstrued. We dropp*d LSDweeks before we met the Maharishi. We were looking for something more natural. But all that has been said about us building gold palaces in India is rubbish. Everyone thinks we are going to freak out into the hills

forever! All meditation means to us is that we have more output in our work. More energy for things like recording and filming. It would have

worked just the same if we hadn't taken LSD."

Q: "Do you think that flower power is just a commercial craze, or do you think there is some worth to it?"

JOHN: "There will be a sort of core of things that will come out of it which will be worthwhile. Just the love and peace thing is worth it, whatever commercial muck goes on. At least it's about something nicer than normal. Good things came out of the beats, like (Allen) Ginsberg and all those things."

Q: "What if everyone drops out?"

JOHN: "I don't think they go for that over here (Britain). The slant doesn't seem to be 'drop-out,' but just do better or just change it. Not drop-out like they do in the States, but try to change what's going on, be different yourself in these surroundings."

Q: "What do you feel about the religious aspect of the flower movement?"

JOHN: "I can understand religion now. I might have come to that conclusion anyway at 25 or 26. But now I understand it - realizing that The Church Of England and all those things, they're government. We all rejected that. I'm not against organized religion if it's organized by religious people and not just by politicians disguised. But they've got themselves into the position of any big company - they lose touch.

I've realized religion is personal. It's 'Do as you would be done by' really."

Q: "Does it involve a superior force, a God?"

JOHN: "It's an energy. I don't and never did imagine God as one thing. But now I can see God as a power source - or as an energy. But you can't see any kind of energy... only track it on radar or things like that. You can be aware of your own energy and all the energy that's around you. All the energy is God. Your own energy and their energy, whether doing god-like things or ungodly things. It's all like one big jelly. We're all in the big jelly."

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Wednesday, 14 October 2026

ON THIS DAY ... OCTOBER 14

October 14

1960: The Beatles live: Kaiserkeller, Hamburg

1963

Photographs of the London Palladium performance are published on the front pages of every London newspaper.

1964

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.' Live: ABC Cinema, Manchester. Television: Scene At 6.30

1966

It is stated that Northern Songs Limited made a profit of 614,000 pounds in 1965.

1968

Morning: Ringo and his family fly to Sardinia, taking 2-week vacations.

Studio 2. 7.00pm-7.30am. Stereo mixing: 'I Will' (remix 1, from take 68); 'Birthday' (remix 1, from take 22). Recording: 'Savoy Truffle' (overdub onto take 1). Mono mixing: 'Savoy Truffle' (remixes 1-6, from take 1); 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' (remixes 10, 11, from take 25); 'Long Long Long' (remixes 2, 3, from take 67). Stereo mixing: 'Savoy Truffle' (remixes 1, 2, from take 1); 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' (remixes 10-12, from take 25); 'Yer Blues' (remixes 1-5, from takes 16, 17 and edit piece take 1); 'Sexy Sadie' (remixes 1-3, from take 117); 'What's The New Mary Jane' (remixes 1, 2, from take 4). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Ken Scott; 2nd Engineer: John Smith.

End of recordings for 'The Beatles'.

1970: Mixing: All Things Must Pass by George Harrison

Recording: Get On The Right Thing by Wings

1971: TV: John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Free Time. The show was filmed in the WNET studios in New York City, and involved Ono staging versions of her art and instructional works ‘Hide Piece’, ‘Sweep Piece’, and ‘Promise Piece’.

1972: Recording, mixing: C Moon by Wings

1973: Paul McCartney and Tony Visconti discuss the Band On The Run orchestration

1974: John Lennon discusses Roots album with Maurice Levy

Mixing: Be My Baby by John Lennon

1975: Recording: The Note You Never Wrote by Wings

1978: Cover photoshoot: Wings Greatest by Wings. Paul and Linda McCartney had recently bought ‘Semiramis’, a sculpture by the Romanian artist Demétre Chiparus. The photographer Linda McCartney acquired this chryselephantine statuette (made of cold-painted bronze and carved ivory) at an auction in early 1978, and they wanted to feature it on the cover. The photoshoot took place on the Rothorn mountain, where a helicopter couldn't land, but could hover at a 45-degree angle, allowing them to open the door and place the statue on the mountain peak.

1979: Editing: Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney

1993: Paul McCartney live: Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris

2005: Paul McCartney at The Palace, Auburn Hills

2009: Liverpool considers Beatles Trail of iconic locations

The Beatles’ Box Of Vision gets UK and European release

2011: Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell honeymoon in Mustique

2013: UK album release: New by Paul McCartney

2015: Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Brandt Centre, Regina

2017: Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Planet Hollywood Resort, Las Vegas

2024: Beatles ’64 documentary to stream on Disney+ in November

2025: Paul McCartney live: Casey’s Center, Des Moines

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Tuesday, 13 October 2026

THE BEATLES’ ‘RUBBER SOUL' RETURNS TO THE BILLBOARD 200 TOP 5

The Beatles' album "Rubber Soul" currently holds the No. 4 position on the Billboard 200 chart (for the week dated October 17, 2026).

The iconic album made a strong re-entry into the US Top 10 following the recent release of its Super Deluxe expanded edition, logging approximately 58,000 equivalent album units in its first week back on the chart.

This marks the legendary LP's first appearance in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 since 1966, when it originally spent six weeks at No. 1 starting that February.

The album’s re-entry also creates a rare historical milestone on the chart:

The Beatles, Taylor Swift, and Drake simultaneously share positions within the Top 5.

This brings together the three artists with the most No. 1 albums in the history of the Billboard 200 chart—The Beatles leading all acts with 19 No. 1s, followed by Swift and Drake tied with 15 each.

The album re-entered at the No. 1 position on Billboard's Vinyl Albums chart for the week dated October 17.

Impact on the Billboard 200: In addition to leading vinyl format sales, Rubber Soul returned to the Top 5 of the Billboard 200, reaching the No. 4 spot.

What is driving this resurgence?

This massive return to the charts is due to the release of an expanded and remastered special edition (Rubber Soul: Special Edition), released by Apple Records.

New Stereo Mixes: Advanced de-mixing technology developed by the WingNut Films team was used to separate and remaster the original four-track recordings.
Collector's Formats: The release featured various vinyl collections, such as a 5-LP Super Deluxe box set, limited edition zoetrope picture discs, and standard 180-gram LP editions.

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