DECEMBER 25, 1965 – George Harrison officially proposed marriage to Patti Boyd at their home “Kinfauns” a bungalow-style house, on Claremont Drive in Esher, Surrey, England on the Claremont Estate. Harrison first met Boyd during the filming of “A Hard Day’s Night” in which she was cast as a schoolgirl. Her only line in the film…
DECEMBER 25, 1957 – An apprentice engineer from Liverpool named Richard Starkey, then already seventeen, gets his first real set of drums for Christmas (the young Starkey’s family couldn’t afford a proper set when he was a child). Later, he would become known as Ringo Starr.In 1953, Starr had contracted tuberculosis and was admitted to…
NOVEMBER 30, 2012 – 76-year-old Glen Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) gave his final concert At the Uptown Theatre in Napa, California, the last stop on his “Goodbye” tour. In June 2011, Campbell announced he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease six months and embarked on a final tour with three of his…
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 persuaded Brian Epstein that they…
December 5 1967 at The Apple Apartments The launch party for the Apple Boutique in December 1967 was attended by John Lennon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Cilla Black and Kenneth Tynan
Harrison’s third solo album, it includes the hit singles “My Sweet Lord” and “What Is Life”, as well as songs such as “Isn’t It a Pity” and the title track that were turned down by Harrison’s former band, the Beatles. The album reflects the influence of his musical activities outside the Beatles during 1968–70, with…
NOVEMBER 13, 2005 – Space workers on at the US space station in orbit around the Earth awoke to the sound of Paul McCartney singing “Good Day Sunshine” live from his concert in Anaheim, California.Flying 220 miles above the Earth, Astronauts Bill McArthur and Russian Cosmonaut Valery Tokarev were treated to the wake up call in…
NOVEMBER 13, 2012 – The original collage that was photographed for the cover of The Beatles’ 1967 classic “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album (taken on March 30, 1967 by Michael Cooper at Chelsea manor Photo Studios) sold for $87,720. The piece, which was designed by Peter Blake, was sold to an unnamed bidder as…
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 got as far as building….
NOVEMBER 17, 1963 – John Weightman, the UK Headmaster of a Surrey Grammar School, banned all pupils from having Beatle haircuts saying, “this ridiculous style brings out the worst in boys physically. It makes them look like morons.”