Beatles

“When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told …

June 1977. Lennon was in Hong Kong during a trip to Japan – and Bowie was in town on tour with his band. They met up in Hong Kong (where Bowie was touring along with Iggy Pop). While there, a tourist approached John and said, “Aren’t you John Lennon?” John …

The sea was in John’s blood. Not one for pools, he preferred an open body of salt water; he would swim every day if he could. At the sea, he found peace of mind and recharged his creativity – May Pang

OCTOBER 6, 2010 – A set of John Lennon’s fingerprints were seized by the FBI from a New York memorabilia dealer who intended to sell them for $100,000 (£62,621) minimum bid. The prints were taken at a New York police station in 1976 when Lennon applied for permanent US residence. The …

OCTOBER 1, 2015 – An original film of The Beatles performing at The Cavern Club in Liverpool in 1962 was found after 50 years languishing in a desk drawer. It featured the Fab Four playing “Some Other Guy” on August 22, 1962, four weeks before their debut single came out. It …

1960 – In Hamburg, the Beatles, with Stu Sutcliffe, recorded versions of “Fever,” “Summertime,” and “September Song. 1962Performance at the Cavern, with the Dominoes and The Saints Jazz Band.1963US single release: ‘Bad To Me’, with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.[According to my sources, this record got on the Billboard chart. …

SEPTEMBER 2, 1978 – George Harrison married Olivia Arias in a private ceremony at the Henley-on-Thames Register Office in England. Olivia was a secretary with Harrison’s Dark Horse record label when they first met in 1974. Harrison’s first marriage, to model Pattie Boyd in 1966, had ended in divorce in …

SEPTEMBER 4, 1968 – Thirteen years before the birth of MTV, The Beatles recorded promotional videos for “Hey Jude” and “Revolution” at Twickenham Film Studios. They arrived at the studios at 1:30 PM and worked until evening. The set, at the studio’s “stage one” had been assembled over the previous …