The Beatles in the 1964 rock film, A Hard Day's Night.

04- March – Today in Beatles History

1961 – The Beatles perform at Aintree Institute, Aintree, Liverpool.

1962- The Beatles perform at the Casbah Coffee Club.

1963- The Beatles perform at the Plaza Ballroom, St. Helens. This is the first booking for which The Beatles are paid 100 pounds.

1964- More train filming for “A Hard Day’s Night” (as yet untitled). Another day’s travel to Minehead and back. They stop at the station in Crowcombe, Somerset, to shoot a favorite scene in the film: The Beatles running, outside of the train (they were running on the station platform beside the slowly-moving train), shouting mischievously at the stuffy ‘regular passenger’ (actor Richard Vernon), “Hey mister! Can we have our ball back?”

 

 

1965- The Beatles continue filming for their second movie, “HELP!”, in the Bahamas

 

 

1966 – UK release of Beatles EP “Yesterday” (Parlophone). Songs: “Yesterday”, “Act Naturally”, “You Like Me Too Much”, and “It’s Only Love”. Highest chart position: #1

 

 

1994- US re-release of Beatles US single “I Want to Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There” (Capitol). 30th anniversary reissue.

 

1996 -Release of Beatles single “Real Love/Baby’s in Black/Yellow Submarine/Here There and Everywhere” in the US (Capitol) and the UK (Parlophone/Apple). Highest UK chart position is #4. Highest US chart position is #11 (Billboard). [Note: one source gives March 12, 1996, as the correct release date for the US.]

 

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