1961 – The Beatles perform at Lathom Hall, Seaforth, Liverpool, and at The Cassanova Club, Liverpool.
1962 – The Beatles perform at the Casbah Coffee Club, West Derby, Liverpool.
1963- The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio Two, EMI Studios, London). During 585 minutes of studio time, The Beatles complete ten songs for their first album. While it was not unusual then for groups to record an album in a single day, it was unusual for one of this quality to be produced, especially one with so many original songs. On top of that, John Lennon was not well, suffering from a bad cold which affected his singing voice.
1964- The Beatles travel from New York to Washington, D.C. by train, during a blizzard, for their first concert in the United States. That night The Beatles perform for 8,092 fans at the Washington Coliseum. They perform “Roll Over Beethoven”, “From Me to You”, “I Saw Her Standing There”, “This Boy”, “All My Loving”, “I Wanna Be Your Man”, “Please Please Me”, “Till There Was You”, “She Loves You”, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, “Twist and Shout”, and “Long Tall Sally”. The support acts were Tommy Roe, the Caravelles, and the Chiffons. The stage setting was definitely weird. The Beatles had to stop three times and turn Ringo’s drum kit around and re-position their microphones so that they faced a different part of the surrounding audience at each change. George had problems with two microphones, and the whole thing was a bit ludicrous, but The Beatles were marvelous sports about it all. The concert was filmed and later transmitted as a closed-circuit broadcast to theaters in March, the film omitting the closing number “Long Tall Sally”. After their performance at the Coliseum, The Beatles visit the British Embassy, a thoroughly unpleasant experience. They are insulted and shoved around by the diplomats and their wives, one of the women sneaking up behind Ringo and cutting off a lock of his hair.
That night, we were absolutely pelted by the fuckin’ things. They don’t have soft jelly babies there; they have hard jelly beans. To make matters worse, we were on a circular stage, so they hit us from all sides. Imagine waves of rock-hard little bullets raining down on your from the sky. It’s a bit dangerous, you know, ’cause if a jelly bean, travelling about 50 miles an hour through the air, hits you in the eye, you’re finished. You’re blind aren’t you? We’ve never liked people throwing stuff like that. We don’t mind them throwing streamers, but jelly beans are a bit dangerous, you see! Every now and again, one would hit a string on my guitar and plonk off a bad note as I was trying to play.
George Harrison
1965: Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox
1968- The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio Three, EMI Studios, London). Recording “Hey Bulldog”. This song is given over for the “Yellow Submarine” animated film project, in place of the uncompleted “You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)”. The song will appear in British prints of the film, but not originally in the US version. Beatlephiles in the US will not see the “Hey Bulldog” film sequence until it is re-inserted into the film during the 1999 remastering of the movie. While recording “Hey Bulldog”, The Beatles are filmed at work for the making of a promotional video. Although The Beatles were filmed performing “Hey Bulldog”, the video portion will be used for a film clip of “Lady Madonna”, featuring that song’s audio track. It won’t be until 1999 that the video is shown with its original “Hey Bulldog” soundtrack.
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