1961 – The Beatles perform at Aintree Institute, Aintree, Liverpool, and at Hambleton Hall, Huyton, Liverpool.
1962- The Beatles perform at the Cavern Club at lunchtime. That night they perform before an audience of 3500 at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey. Sharing the bill with The Beatles is Terry Lightfoot and his New Orleans Jazz Band
1963-The Beatles perform at the Ritz Ballroom, Birmingham
1964- “I Want to Hold Your Hand” is the #1 single in the US for the third straight week
1964- The Beatles give an interview by telephone to Dick Clark during the ABC-TV show “American Bandstand”. That afternoon they rehearse at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, for their second live appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show”.
1965- US release of Beatles single “Eight Days a Week/I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party” (Capitol). 10 weeks on Billboard chart; highest position #1.
1965- he Beatles in the recording studio (Studio Two, EMI Studios, London). Recording “Ticket to Ride”, “Another Girl”, and “I Need You”. “Ticket to Ride” is completed, but the other two songs require overdubs, which are done the following day
1966 -Release in Sweden of Beatles single “Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever” (Parlophone). Seven weeks in the Swedish charts; highest position #1
1968 – John Lennon and George Harrison, with their wives, travel to Rishikesh, India, to study Transcendental Meditation with the Maharishi. Paul McCartney, Jane Asher, and Ringo Starr and his wife Maureen, follow on the 19th. Ringo and Maureen leave after only 10 days, bored with the routine and sick of the food. Paul and Jane leave on March 26. John and George and their wives leave after 11 weeks following an accusation (now thought to be untrue) that the Maharishi was attempting to seduce Mia Farrow, another acolyte. John and George leave on April 12
