1966 : ‘Rubber Soul’, 26th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). 1967 – The Beatles album “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released in the U.K. and around the world. 1969 – In Montreal, John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded “Give Peace a Chance” with Tommy and …
Read More »May 15 – Today in Beatles History
1963 : Please Please Me’ LP, 8th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). Concert at the Royalty, Chester. 1964 : Gerry and the Pacemakers (Films) Limited, film production company, is incorporated, with Epstein one of its opening directors 1965 – The Beatles single “Yes It Is” hit …
Read More »April 11, 1991 – Ringo Starr guest starred as himself on Fox-TV’s “The Simpsons”
APRIL 11, 1991 – Ringo Starr guest starred as himself on Fox-TV’s “The Simpsons”. In the plot of the episode titled “Brush With Greatness”, Bart stumbles upon several old paintings of Ringo Starr that Marge made as a student in high school, when she had a crush on Starr. Marge …
Read More »October 23 1963 – Beatles
The Beatles who have strummed, sung and shaken their distinctive hair-cuts, to game in the world of ‘pop’ during the last year, pictured this morning at London Airport before flying out for series of engagements in Sweden
Read More »December 8 1980 – Prayers and Tears for John Lennon
They gathered almost instantly, a tribute to the immediacy of modern mass communications. Outside the squat red brick hospital on Manhattan’s West Side late Monday night, the crowd was partly serious. But there was more to it than that. “He can’t go; he meant so much to everyone” said a …
Read More »September 12th 1972 Ringo and Maureen Fly Out
Wearing dark glasses and an Edwardian Jacked but still recognisable ex-Beatles Ringo Starr left London’s Heartrow Airtport to fly to New York Monday Accompanying him was his wife Maureen, who appeared to supporting the opposition by wearing a T-Rex tee-shirt. Ringo has been busy starring Merlin the Wizard in the …
Read More »Roy Orbison and Beatles April 24th 1964
London: Roy Orbison watches as his wife Claudette feeds Beatle John Lennon with a piece of Birthday cake as they pictured at a paty held at the italian restaurant La Dolce Vita in London’s soho last night Beatle drummer Ringo Starr Looks on with his hand on the shoulder of …
Read More »March 23 1970 – Beatle Admits Using Marijuana
John Lennon said in an interview published in paris today that he and the other Beatles smoked marijuana in a toilet in Buckingham Palace before being decorated by Queen Elizabeth Lennon was asked by a n interviewer of the weekly French Magazine L’Express whether he took the decoration seriously, and …
Read More »December 8 1980 – Murder Was Also a Fan
John Lennon’s accused murderer sat quietly in a hospital prison ward Wednesday as officials tried to piece together the conflicting identities of drug-user “born-again” Christian, jilted lover and child of a broken home that apparently drove him to kill the man he most admired. Mark David Chapman, a 25-year-old unemployed …
Read More »April 19th 1978 – Donahue Show – Ringo Starr
Reflecting upın his years with The Beatles, rock star/actor Ringo Starr Tells tv host Phil Donahue, “We changed society in its outlook and dress; We Weren’t just some little rock group” Starr also reaffirm that he and his former Beatle partners are not planing a concert reunion and that those …
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