The Beatles Today in Beatles History

“Woman came about because, one sunny afternoon in Bermuda, it suddenly hit me. I saw what women do for us. Not just what my Yoko does for me, although I was thinking in those personal terms. Any truth is universal. If we’d made our album in the third person and …

1962 Performance at the Queen’s Hall, Widnes, with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, and Billy J. Kramer and the Coasters. 1963 ‘She Loves You’ reaches over 500,000 sold issues in the UK. 5.00-5.29pm. BBC’s ‘Pop Go The Beatles’ broadcast (recorded 1 August 1963, 4.00-6.00pm; completely broadcast, except ‘Lucille’ and ‘Baby …

1960 The Beatles become friends with Klaus Voormann and Astrid Kirchherr, who belong to a group of German existentialist intellectuals/artists known as “Exis.” Voormann is an illustrator who will later design later album covers for the band, and Kirchherr is a photographer who will take many historic photographs of The …

1929 Actor, Victor Spinetti, is born Vittorio Giorgio Andrea Spinetti in Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Wales. He is best known for the three roles he played in The Beatles’ films A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, and Magical Mystery Tour. During his later career, Spinetti acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He …

John Lennon performs two One to One benefit concerts with Yoko Ono and Elephant’s Memory at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The concerts are to benefit the Willowbrook School for Children. The concerts are recorded, and some of the songs are later edited into the LP and video …

“Being right there in the inner sanctum and hanging out with them for a few weeks was fantastic. Although a long time passed since they last recorded as one unit, they worked terribly well together, and being in the control room watching and listening to them interact with each other …

1960 The Beatles perform at the Indra Club, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, West Germany. 1961 The Beatles perform at the Cavern Club, Liverpool, a night performance. 1962 The Beatles perform at the Cavern Club at lunchtime and at Riverpark Ballroom, Chester, at night. Also appearing for this night of “Non-Stop Twist …

The day preceding they watched Bob Dylan perform at the Isle of Wight Festival, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Ringo Starrand Maureen Starkey set out to the island. George Harrison and his better half Pattie had arrived the earlier day. Paul McCartney didn’t go to the celebration as his girl Mary …

A new category of programs from the Rock Talk channel. In this first episode we tell the unusual and curious story of the meeting between Deep Purple and George Harrison in a show that took place in 1984 in Australia. In this program we tell many interesting and little-known details, …

Tuesday 9 January 1968. George Harrison is in India to work on the soundtrack for the film ‘Wonderwall.’ Sessions begin on this date and will be finished in four days. Harrison agreed to write the film’s score after the Bee Gees became unavailable.He first started working on the project in …