Beatles

England’s Beatles arrived in Sydney, Australia in a driving torrential rain and this was the result. Three members of the quartet are shown at their hotel. At left is George and at right, Paul and John. Ringo Starr the fourth member of the group is en route to Australia for …

Drummer Ringo Starr of the mop-haired Beatles gocs Western with a big black hat, a cigar and toy six-shooter as he poses for photographer Larry Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times at the plush mansion in suburhan Bel-Air where the British singers are hiding out from their admiring fans. Ringo …

Ringo Starr of Liverpool said he was worried about the girls who tend to munch on the grass he has walked on. “I just hope they don’t get indigestion” he said Since there is more pavement than grass around Dallas Memorial Auditorium, the first teen-agers who turned out 10-000 strong …

FEBRUARY 8, 1966 – Eighteen days after they married in Esher, Surrey, George and Pattie Harrison flew to Barbados for their honeymoon.The couple was followed by television cameras through the London Airport terminal until they boarded their BOAC flight. George wore a suit and Pattie wore a black and white …

FEBRUARY 8, 1964 – On their first full day in New York, a morning a press conference was held in the Baroque Room at New York’s Plaza Hotel where The Beatles were staying during their first night in the US. Following this John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr went …

FEBRUARY 3, 1966 – Paul McCartney met 15 year-old entertainer Stevie Wonder for the first time after Wonder’s show at London’s Scotch Of St. James nightclub at Masons Yard, in London, England.On February 18th, Wonder told NME magazine: “When on tour I have to write essays about the places I …

FEBRUARY 4, 1974 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono mutually agreed to a trial separation, which effectively kicked off John’s notorious fifteen-month “lost weekend.” Separating from Yoko, he took up with Ono associate May Pang and left for sunny Los Angeles on an extended bender, where he was often joined …

JANUARY 20, 1970 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono both shaved off their hair. The couple stayed in Aalborg in Denmark over the New Year and most of January 1970, to be with Ono’s daughter Kyoko who was living there with her father Tony Cox (Ono’s second husband and an …

Paul McCartney appeared on MTV’s “Unplugged.” The performance was recorded and released a few months later as “Unplugged (The Official Bootleg).”Unlike other artists who appeared on the acclaimed show with acoustic instruments plugged into amplifiers (producing the sound heard), McCartney’s instruments were 100% unplugged. Microphones were carefully placed close to …

George Harrison met with President Gerald Ford at the White House after Gerald’s son Jack extended an invitation. Jack had attended a George Harrison concert in Salt Lake City, Utah. After the show, he invited Harrison and members of his band to pay a visit to the White House. Ford …