1936
Singer-songwriter, Buddy Holly, is born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas. By the age of 13, Holly was playing what he called “Western Bop” at local clubs. At 19, an agent discovered him and signed him to a contract with Decca Records. A misspelling of his last name on his recording contract caused Holley to change his last name. The following year, he returned to Lubbock, and with three friends formed The Crickets, who then released That’ll Be The Day, which sold over a million copies. Buddy Holly’s career was short: he died in February 1959, in a plane crash while on tour in northern Iowa.
1961
Performances at noontime at the Cavern Club in Liverpool and at night at the Town Hall in Litherland, Liverpool.
1963
UK. The Beatles LP ‘Please Please Me’ number 1, 18th week.
The Beatles in concert at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon, Surrey.
Broadcast of ABC-TV’s ‘Big Night Out’, with performance recorded September 1 1963.
The Playhouse Theatre, London. Recording for BBC’s ‘Saturday Club’: ‘I Saw Her Standing There’; ‘Memphis, Tennessee’; ‘Happy Birthday Saturday Club’; ‘I’ll Get You’; ‘She Loves You’; ‘Lucille’.
Recording for the 5th anniversary edition of ‘Saturday Club’.
28 Maitland Court, home address of Donald Zec. The Beatles are interviewed by Donald Zec (published in the ‘Daily Mirror’, September10 1963).
1964
The Beatles, preform in Canada during their American tour, perform two shows at Maple Leaf Gardens in Ontario, Canada. Attendance for both shows is 35,522
1965
Brian attends an evening at the Finchley Jewish Youth Club, presenting various cups and trophies.
1966
UK. The Beatles song ‘Eleanor Rigby’, 5th week in the Top 10.
UK. The Beatles song ‘Yellow Submarine’, 5th week in the Top 10.
1967
Studio 2. 7.00pm-3.15am. Recording: ‘Blue Jay Way’ (tape reduction take 1 into take 2, overdub onto take 2, tape reduction take 2 into take 3, overdub onto take 3). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Peter Vince; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott.
1968
US. The Beatles song ‘Hey Jude’, 2nd week in the Top 30.
1969
The half hour Saturday morning cartoon “The Beatles” aired its last show. The show had debuted on September 25, 1965 and was cancelled on September 7 1969.
1976
Having purchased the rights to Buddy Holly’s song catalog, Paul McCartney stages the first “Buddy Holly Week” celebration in Lubbock, Texas.
A court rules that George Harrison plagiarized the chorus from He’s So Fine when writing his big hit My Sweet Lord, and was ordered to pay damages of $587,000 to Bright Tunes, the publishers of He’s So Fine.
1983
Studio 2. Show ‘The Beatles At Abbey Road’ (3 times).
1995
UK LP Release: ‘Help!’, charity CD album to raise money for War Child, British organization working in Mostar, Bosnia.
In England, Sotheby’s holds an auction called “The Cynthia Lennon Collection: Part 2.” It is comprised of 18 items, among them John Lennon’s “leather-clad, metal-lined, bulbous barrel“ which according to Cynthia, John used to “stash his marijuana and cigarette papers in at home in Weybridge.”
1997
Publicist, Derek Taylor, dies of cancer of the esophagus at his home in Suffolk, England, at age 65. Taylor was press officer for The Beatles for much of their career.
Photographic exhibition of Linda at the Museum of the City of San Francisco.
