A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE BEATLES

1960--The Silver Beetles perform at The Institute, Neston, Wirral, Cheshire. They are paid £10, and they give their manager Allan Williams a commission of £1. During the performance, a 16-year-old boy is nearly kicked to death.
 

1961--The Beatles perform at the Top Ten Club, Reeperbahn, Hamburg, West Germany.
 

1962--The Beatles return from Hamburg to Liverpool.
 

1963--The Beatles, touring with Roy Orbison, perform at the Hippodrome Theatre in Brighton, Sussex.

1964--The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio Two, EMI Studios, London). They record 11 takes each of John Lennon's songs Any Time At All and When I Get Home. Then came three takes of Paul McCartney's song Things We Said Today. All were recorded for the A Hard Day's Night LP.

 
1965--George and Brian Epstein attend the premiere of Richard Lester's movie, "The Knack...and How to Get It," at the London Pavilion.
1966--The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio Two, EMI Studios, London). Recording George's song, "Laxton's Superb," the working title for I Want to Tell You. The rhythm track is completed in five takes, some overdubs are added, then a reduction mixdown is made to allow for further overdubs during the next recording session. Initially, the song was titled "I Don't Know," because that is what George answered when George Martin asked him what the title of the song was. Geoff Emerick came up with "Laxton's Superb," which is a type of apple.

1966--Disc magazine publishes the banned "butcher cover" for the upcoming LP release Yesterday and Today.
1967--US release of The Beatles’ LP, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol) 121 weeks on Billboard chart; highest position #1. Just in time to start the Summer of Love!
 

1967--The Beatles in the recording studio (De Lane Lea Recording Studios, Kingsway, London). George Martin joins The Beatles at the De Lane Lea studio for the first time. A bit of work is done on It's All Too Much, but the session consists mainly of more instrumental jamming. The Beatles also bring bass/contra bass clarinetist Paul Harvey and four trumpeters into the studio to join them in the experimental music-making.
 
1969--With their Montreal Bed-In completed, John Lennon and Yoko Ono leave the Queen Elizabeth Hotel and fly to Ottawa to attend a university conference on peace. Later that evening they take a flight back to London. [Allen Wiener reports that John and Yoko flew back to London on June 7].
 
1973--Wings' single, My Love, reaches #1 in the US singles charts (it will hold the #1 position for 4 weeks). Wing's album Red Rose Speedway reaches #1 in the US album charts.
 
1975--US release of the Ringo Starr single, It's All Down to Goodnight Vienna / Goodnight Vienna (reprise) / Oo-Wee (Apple). 7 weeks on Billboard chart; highest position #31. Issued on the same day as David Bowie’s Fame single, written with John Lennon and guitarist Earl Slick, it becomes the third Lennon-related No. 1 single in less than a year.
 
1980--At an auction in Syracuse, New York, dairy farmer, Steve Potter, pays $265,000 for a single Holstein cow owned by the Lennons. Yoko Ono orchestrated the deal.
 
1999--At the intermission of a concert of symphonic Beatles music in Jerusalem, someone pilfers Fab Four producer and guest conductor George Martin's music. The theft is not discovered until later in the week, when Martin, who didn't have spare copies, threatens to call off a concert in Tel Aviv. Six out of seven of the stolen scores are returned in time for the Tel Aviv concert.