Beatles

JANUARY 29, 1964 – The Beatles spent the day at Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris, France, The Beatles’ only studio recording session for EMI held outside the UK. They recorded new vocals for “She Loves You,””‘I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “Can’t Buy Me Love” after EMI’s West German branch …

December 5 1967 at The Apple Apartments The launch party for the Apple Boutique in December 1967 was attended by John Lennon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Cilla Black and Kenneth Tynan

Harrison’s third solo album, it includes the hit singles “My Sweet Lord” and “What Is Life”, as well as songs such as “Isn’t It a Pity” and the title track that were turned down by Harrison’s former band, the Beatles. The album reflects the influence of his musical activities outside …

NOVEMBER 13, 2005 – Space workers on at the US space station in orbit around the Earth awoke to the sound of Paul McCartney singing “Good Day Sunshine” live from his concert in Anaheim, California.Flying 220 miles above the Earth, Astronauts Bill McArthur and Russian Cosmonaut Valery Tokarev were treated to …

NOVEMBER 13, 2012 – The original collage that was photographed for the cover of The Beatles’ 1967 classic “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album (taken on March 30, 1967 by Michael Cooper at Chelsea manor Photo Studios) sold for $87,720. The piece, which was designed by Peter Blake, was sold …

NOVEMBER 13, 1967 – John Lennon purchased islands off the Ireland coast for £1,700 and invited any hippie who wished to live there. Lennon bought Dorninish (twin green mounds linked by a natural causeway), lying just 15 minutes from the west coast of Ireland and got planning permission, although he never …

NOVEMBER 17, 1963 – John Weightman, the UK Headmaster of a Surrey Grammar School, banned all pupils from having Beatle haircuts saying, “this ridiculous style brings out the worst in boys physically. It makes them look like morons.”

In 1958, Bill May, Australian guitar builder and founder of Maton guitars, introduced the MS500 Mastersound series. The MS500 is a 6-string solid body guitar with two pickups, two volume and two tone controls and a three-way pick up selector switch. The original 1950’s MS500 models feature a 24.5” scale …

NOVEMBER 21, 2003 – An acoustic guitar on which the late Beatle George Harrison learned to play fetched £276,000 at an auction sale at London’s Hard Rock Cafe by auctioneers Cooper Owen.In one account, Harrison bought this “Beginner’s Guitar,” a 1956 Rosetti 276 – Egmond 105 which was made in Holland …

The last photo of John Lennon, the legendary member of The Beatles and his murdered Mark David Chapman is released. On 08 December 1980, John Lennon was stopped by 25-year-old ex-security officer Mark David Chapman with no previous criminal records when he was about to leave his house in Central …