Today in Beatles History

DECEMBER 27, 1958 – While attending a class at the Liverpool College of Art, John Lennon met student Cynthia Powell and they began a relationship the following year. The early days of their relationship were turbulent. They would often have sex in alleys or doorways, and Lennon often showed jealousy towards …

DECEMBER 29, 1969 – In an effort to stop smoking, John Lennon and Yoko Ono had a session with hypnotists Hamrick & Leonard. Dr. Don Hamrick was a San Francisco-based therapist who claimed to have made contact with extraterrestrials in Norway and wanted the Beatles to help promote communications between them …

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 …

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 …

Paul explained: “I was sitting at the piano when I thought of it. The first few bars just came to me, and I got this name in my head … ‘Daisy Hawkins picks up the rice in the church.’ I don’t know why I couldn’t think of much more so I …

OCTOBER 12, 1962 – The Beatles met Little Richard for the first time when they opened for his performance at the Tower Ballroom in New Brighton, England. Although he considered George and John a bit rude, he was quite taken with Paul McCartney, and even tried to seduce him at one …

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 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 …

SEPTEMBER 13, 1965 – The Beatles released the Paul McCartney ballad “Yesterday” (credited to Lennon & McCartney on the group’s 1965 “Help!” album). According to biographers of McCartney and the Beatles, McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of …