Date
|
Event
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Jan 01
Tuesday
|
End of last season of Star Club
performances.
|
Jan 01
Tuesday
|
Tour of Ireland begins.
|
Jan 03
Thursday
|
End of Christmas pantomime `Babes
In The Wood', with Gerry and the Pacemakers. [?]
|
Jan 05
Saturday
|
In the `Liverpool Echo', Tony
Barrow announces and comments the release of the 2nd Beatles single.
|
Jan 05
Saturday
|
End of tour of Scotland.
|
Jan 07
Monday
|
Concert at the Majestic Ballroom,
Birkenhead.
|
Jan 10
Thursday
|
Concert at the Grafton Ballroom,
Liverpool.
|
Jan 11
Friday
|
|
Jan 11
Friday
|
Appearance on ABC TV's `Thank Your
Lucky Stars'.
|
Jan 13
Sunday
|
Trip to Birmingham, with Brian.
Recording of performance for `Thank Your Lucky Stars', at ABC-TV's Birmingham
Studios. National TV debut. During the recording, Brian meets Andrew Oldham.
|
Jan 13
Sunday
|
`Please Please Me' premiere. [What
does this mean?]
|
Jan 16
Wednesday
|
The Playhouse Theatre, Manchester.
8.45-9.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Here We Go': `Chains'; `Please Please Me';
`Ask Me Why'; `Three Cool Cats'.
|
Jan 16
Wednesday
|
Recording of several interviews
for the BBC.
|
Jan 17
Thursday
|
`Please Please Me' enters the UK
Record Retailer chart.
|
Jan 18
Friday
|
Recording for Radio Luxembourg:
`Carol', `Lend Me Your Comb', and others.
|
Jan 19
Saturday
|
Transmision of performance in
`Thank Your Lucky Stars' (recorded 13 January 1963)
|
Jan 21
Monday
|
EMI House. Promotional
photographic session with Angus McBean.
|
Jan 21
Monday
|
EMI House, ground floor studio.
Recording for Radio Luxembourg's `The Friday Spectacular'.
|
Jan 22
Tuesday
|
First session of Gerry and the
Pacemakers. Recording: `How Do You Do It?'.
|
Jan 22
Tuesday
|
The Playhouse Theatre, London.
4.00-5.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Saturday Club': `Some Other Guy'; `Love Me
Do'; `Please Please Me'; `Keep Your Hands Off My Baby'; `Beautiful Dreamer'.
BBC Paris Studio, London. 7.00-8.00pm. Recording for BBC's `The Talent Spot':
`Please Please Me'; `Ask Me Why'; `Some Other Guy'.
|
Jan 25
Friday
|
Vee Jay gets US contract to
release Beatles records.
|
Jan 25
Friday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Here We Go'
broadcast (all 16 January 1963 session but `Three Cool Cats').
|
Jan 26
Saturday
|
10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Saturday
Club' broadcast (recorded 22 January 1963).
|
Jan 29
Tuesday
|
BBC's `The Talent Spot' broadcast
(recorded 22 January 1963).
|
Jan 30
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' number 17, 1st
week in the ranking (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Jan 31
Thursday
|
Concert at the Majestic Ballroom,
Birkenhead.
|
Feb 01
Friday
|
Preparation for 1st British tour.
|
Feb 01
Friday
|
3 concert promoters, Arthur Howes,
Paul Cave and Harold Fielding, contact Brian, vying for the chance to present
Beatles shows at seaside resorts in the summer.
|
Feb 02
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' number 47 (UK
Melody Market chart).
|
Feb 02
Saturday
|
Start of Helen Shapiro Tour, with
Danny Williams, Kenny Linch, Kestrels, and the Red Price Orchestra. 1st
Beatles British tour. Concert at the Gaumont, Bradford. Performance filmed
for complete transmision on ABC-TV and, later, partial transmision on `Thank
Your Lucky Stars'.
|
Feb 03
Sunday
|
Performance at the Cavern.
|
Feb 05
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Gaumont, Doncaster
(Helen Shapiro tour).
|
Feb 06
Wednesday
|
Concert at the Granada, Bedford
(Helen Shapiro tour).
|
Feb 07
Thursday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Wakefield
(Helen Shapiro tour).
|
Feb 08
Friday
|
Concert at the ABC, Carlisle
(Helen Shapiro tour). The Beatles are ejected from a ballroom for wearing
leather jackets.
|
Feb 09
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' number 39 (UK
Melody Market chart).
|
Feb 09
Saturday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Sutherland
(Helen Shapiro tour).
|
Feb 10
Sunday
|
Concert at the Embassy,
Peterborough (Helen Shapiro Tour).
|
Feb 10
Sunday
|
Photographic session with photographer
Cyrus Andrews at the Royal Court Hotel lobby and in and around Sloane Square,
London. Locations: 1) Royal Court Hotel lobby; 2) telephone box; 3) Ford
Popular; 4) letterbox; 5) Royal Court Theatre entrance; 6) King's Arms Public
House.
|
Feb 11
Monday
|
Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm.
Recording: `There's A Place' (takes 1-10); `Seventeen' (working title of `I
Saw Her Standing There') (takes 1-9). Studio 2. 2.30-6.00pm. Recording: `A
Taste Of Honey' (takes 1-5); `Do You Want To Know A Secret' (takes 1-8); `A
Taste Of Honey' (takes 6-7); `There's A Place' (takes 11-13); `Seventeen'
(working title of `I Saw Her Standing There') (takes 10-12); `Misery' (takes
1-11). Studio 2. 7.30-10.45pm. Recording: `Hold Me Tight' (takes 1-13); `Anna
(Go To Him)' (takes 1-3); `Boys' (take 1); `Chains' (takes 1-4); `Baby It's
You' (takes 1-3); `Twist And Shout' (takes 1-2). Producer: George Martin;
Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham. Recording of `Please
Please Me' LP. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann present.
|
Feb 12
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Azena Ballroom,
Sheffield (Helen Shapiro tour).
|
Feb 13
Wednesday
|
Transmision of performance for
ABC-TV's `Thank Your Lucky Stars'.
|
Feb 14
Thursday
|
Concert at the Locarno Ballroom.
|
Feb 16
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' number 21 (UK
Melody Market chart). `Please Please Me' number 1 [chart?].
|
Feb 16
Saturday
|
London. Recording for `Thank Your
Lucky Stars'.
|
Feb 16
Saturday
|
EMI House. Photographic session
with Angus Mc Bean for `Please Please Me' LP cover. [20 February?]
|
Feb 17
Sunday
|
Teddington TV Studios, Teddington
Lock, Middlesex. Filming appearance for ABC's `Thank Your Lucky Stars'. 1st
visit at Teddington TV Studios.
|
Feb 19
Tuesday
|
Day. The Beatles shooted near
River Mersey, Liverpool by Michael Ward; Evening. Performance at the Cavern.
|
Feb 20
Wednesday
|
Studio 1. 10.30am-1.00pm.
Recording: `Misery' (overdub takes 12-16); `Baby It's You' (overdub takes
4-6). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Stuart Eltham; 2nd Engineer: Geoff
Emerick. Martin adds piano to `Misery' and celeste to `Baby It's You'. 1st
Emerick's session.
|
Feb 20
Wednesday
|
The Playhouse Theatre, Manchester.
12.31-1.30pm. Recording and broadcasting of BBC's `Parade Of The Pops': `Love
Me Do'; `Please Please Me'. 1st live show for the BBC.
|
Feb 20
Wednesday
|
EMI House. Photographic session
with Angus Mc Bean for the `Please Please Me' LP cover. [16 February?]
|
Feb 22
Friday
|
This day's issue of the `New
Musical Express' reports, erroneously, that `Keep Your Hands Off My Baby' was
recorded during sessions for `Please Please Me' LP.
|
Feb 22
Friday
|
`Please Please Me' single number
1, 1st week, sharing this position with Frank Ifield's `The Wayward Wind' (UK
`New Musical Express' chart). Brian invites the Beatles to a restaurant in
Soho to celebrate.
|
Feb 22
Friday
|
Brian is made an opening director
of Northern Songs Limited.
|
Feb 23
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' number 9 (UK
Melody Market chart).
|
Feb 23
Saturday
|
Concert at the Mansfield, Granada
(Helen Shapiro Tour).
|
Feb 23
Saturday
|
First appearance on ABC's `Thank
Your Lucky Stars' (filmed 17 February 1963).
|
Feb 24
Sunday
|
Concert at the Coventry Theatre,
Coventry (Helen Shapiro tour).
|
Feb 25
Monday
|
|
Feb 25
Monday
|
Studio 1 (control room only).
10.00am-1.00pm. Editing: `Seventeen' (working title of `I Saw Her Standing
There') (of takes 9, 12). Mono mixing: `Anna (Go To Him)' (from take 3);
`Boys' (from take 1); `Chains' (from take 1); `Misery' (from take 16); `Do
You Want To Know A Secret' (from take 8); `There's A Place' (from take 13);
`Seventeen' (working title of `I Saw Her Standing There') (from edit of takes
9, 12); `Twist And Shout' (from take 1); `A Taste Of Honey' (from take 7).
Stereo mixing: `Anna (Go To Him)' (from take 3); `Boys' (from take 1);
`Chains' (from take 1); `Misery' (from take 16); `Baby It's You' (from take
5); `Do You Want To Know A Secret' (from take 8); `There's A Place' (from take
13); `Seventeen' (working title of `I Saw Her Standing There') (from edit of
takes 9, 12); `Twist And Shout' (from take 1); `A Taste Of Honey' (from take
7). Studio 1 (control room only). 2.30-5.45pm. Editing: `Please Please Me'
(of takes 16, 17, 18). Mono mixing: `Ask Me Why' (from take 6); `Misery'
(from take 16); `Baby It's You' (from take 5). Stereo mixing: `Ask Me Why'
(from take 6); `Please Please Me' (from edit of takes 16-18); `Love Me Do'
(from 11 September 1962 mono remix); `P.S. I Love You' (from 11 September
1962 mono remix); `Misery' (from take 16). Producer: George Martin; Engineer:
Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: A. B. Lincoln. Mixing of versions for `Please
Please Me' LP masters.
|
Feb 26
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Taunton
(Helen Shapiro Tour).
|
Feb 27
Wednesday
|
Concert at the Rialto, York (Helen
Shapiro tour).
|
Feb 28
Thursday
|
Paul and John compose `From Me To
You' on the artists car going from York to Shrewsbury, during the Helen
Shapiro tour. Concert at the Granada, Shrewsbury (Helen Shapiro tour).
|
Feb 28
Thursday
|
Brian and Dick James officially
found Northern Songs Ltd.
|
Mar 01
Friday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Southport
(Helen Shapiro Tour).
|
Mar 01
Friday
|
UK single release: `How Do You Do
It', debut of Gerry and the Pacemakers.
|
Mar 01
Friday
|
`Please Please Me' single number
1, 2nd week (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Mar 02
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' single number
1, 1st week (UK Melody Market chart).
|
Mar 02
Saturday
|
Concert at the City Hall,
Sheffield (Helen Shapiro tour).
|
Mar 03
Sunday
|
Concert at the Gaumont, Hanley.
End of Helen Shapiro tour, 1st Beatles British tour.
|
Mar 03
Sunday
|
Helen Shapiro asks the Beatles a
song.
|
Mar 05
Tuesday
|
EMI House, George Martin's 4th
floor office, London. Photographic session with Angus McBean, changing
clothes. EMI House, spiral staircase to the basement, London. Photographic
session with Angus McBean. Montague Place, London. Photographic session with
3 photographers, between the 2nd and 3rd parking meters nearest to the
junction of Montague Place with Malet Street. George Martin is present. They
all arrived from EMI House, and later went to EMI Studios in Abbey Road.
Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm. Recording: `From Me To You' (takes 1-13); `Thank You
Little Girl' (working title of `Thank You Girl') (takes 1-13). Studio 2.
7.00-10.00pm. Recording: `The One After 909' (takes 1-5). Producer: George
Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham. Start of
sessions for `From Me To You'/`Thank You Girl'. 1st attempt to record `What
Goes On'. Failed.
|
Mar 05
Tuesday
|
Abbey Road Studios. Photographic
session with EMI staff photographers (Edgar Brind among them) on the front
steps. Dezo Hoffmann takes pictures of this session.
|
Mar 06
Wednesday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Southport
(Helen Shapiro Tour).
|
Mar 06
Wednesday
|
UK single release: `How Do You Do
It', debut of Gerry and the Pacemakers.
|
Mar 06
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' single number
1, 2nd week (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Mar 07
Thursday
|
Brian organizes the 1st of the new
concert series, `Mersey Beat Showcase', with The Beatles, Gerry and the
Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, and the Big Three.
|
Mar 08
Friday
|
The prefix `45-' is dropped off
EMI singles catalogue numbers.
|
Mar 08
Friday
|
`Please Please Me' single number
1, 3rd week (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Mar 09
Saturday
|
Concert at the Granada, East Ham.
Two performances. Start of the Chris Montez and Tommy Roe Tour, 2nd Beatles
British tour.
|
Mar 10
Sunday
|
Concert at the Hippodrome,
Birmingham (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
|
Mar 11
Monday
|
EMI House, ground floor studio.
Recording for Radio Luxembourg's `The Friday Spectacular'.
|
Mar 12
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Granada, Bedford
(Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour). Partially recorded for today's BBC `Here
We Go' edition. John gets a cold.
|
Mar 12
Tuesday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Here We Go'
broadcast (6 March 1963 session).
|
Mar 13
Wednesday
|
Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm.
Recording: `Thank You Little Girl' (working title of `Thank You Girl')
(overdub takes 14-28). Editing: `Thank You Little Girl' (working title of
`Thank You Girl') (of takes 6, 13, 17, 20, 21, 23). Mono mixing: `Thank You
Little Girl' (working title of `Thank You Girl') (from edit of takes 6, 13,
17, 20, 21, 23). Stereo mixing: `Thank You Little Girl' (working title of
`Thank You Girl') (from edit of takes 6, 13, 17, 20, 21, 23). Producer:
George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick.
|
Mar 13
Wednesday
|
Concert at the Rialto, York (Chris
Montez and Tommy Roe Tour).
|
Mar 14
Thursday
|
First recording session of Billy
J. Kramer and the Dakotas. Recording: `Do You Want To Know A Secret'.
|
Mar 14
Thursday
|
Studio 2 (control room only).
10.00am-1.00pm. Editing: `From Me To You' (of unknown take number). Mono
mixing: `From Me To You' (from edit of unknown take number). Stereo mixing:
`From Me To You' (from edit of unknown take number). Producer: George Martin;
Engineer: unknown; 2nd Engineer: unknown. End of work on `From Me To You'/`Thank
You Girl'.
|
Mar 14
Thursday
|
Gerry Marsden is fined 60 pounds
at Uxbridge Magistrates Court for attempting to evade customs duty on a
guitar bought in Germany when arriving at London Airport from Hamburg, on 1
December 1962.
|
Mar 14
Thursday
|
Concert at the Gaumont,
Wolverhampton (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe Tour).
|
Mar 15
Friday
|
`Please Please Me' single number
1, 4th and last week (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Mar 15
Friday
|
Concert at the Colston Hall,
Bristol (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe Tour).
|
Mar 16
Saturday
|
Studio 3A, Broadcasting House,
London. 10.00am-12.00noon. Recording and broadcasting live for BBC's
`Saturday Club'. `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Misery'; `Too Much Monkey
Business'; ``I'm Talking About You'; `Please Please Me'; `The Hippy Hippy
Shake'. Only BBC take of `I'm Talking About You'.
|
Mar 16
Saturday
|
Concert at the City Hall,
Sheffield (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
|
Mar 17
Sunday
|
Concert at the Embassy,
Peterborough (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
|
Mar 18
Monday
|
Concert at the ABC, Gloucester
(Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
|
Mar 19
Tuesday
|
Concert at the ABC, Cambridge
(Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
|
Mar 20
Wednesday
|
Concert at the Ritz, Romford
(Chris Montez and Tommy Roe Tour).
|
Mar 21
Thursday
|
Number 1 Studio, Piccadilly
Theatre, London. 1.00-2.00pm. Recording for BBC's `On The Scene': `Misery';
`Do You Want To Know A Secret'; `Please Please Me'.
|
Mar 21
Thursday
|
Concert at the ABC, Croydon (Chris
Montez and Tommy Roe Tour).
|
Mar 22
Friday
|
11.03am. John Dennis Profumo
stands up in the British Parliament to lie about his relationship with
Christine Keller.
|
Mar 22
Friday
|
UK LP release: `Please Please Me'
(mono version). UK single release: `Misery', with Kenny Lynch. 1st cover of a
Beatles song.
|
Mar 22
Friday
|
Performance at EMI House,
Manchester Square, London. Presentation of silver disc for LP `Please Please
Me'. Photographer present: Dezo Hoffmann.
|
Mar 22
Friday
|
Performance at the Gaumont,
Doncaster.
|
Mar 23
Saturday
|
Concert at the City Hall,
Newcastle (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
|
Mar 24
Sunday
|
Concert at the Empire, Liverpool
(Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour). Photographer present: Dezo Hoffmann.
|
Mar 25
Monday
|
The Beatles shoot an 8 mm. film in
Liverpool.
|
Mar 26
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Granada, Mansfield
(Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
|
Mar 27
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 9,
1st week in the ranking (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Mar 27
Wednesday
|
Concert at the ABC, Northampton
(Chris Montez and Tommy Roe Tour).
|
Mar 28
Thursday
|
Concert at the ABC, Exeter (Chris
Montez and Tommy Roe Tour). Partially recorded for today's edition of `On The
Scene'.
|
Mar 28
Thursday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `On The Scene'
broadcast (recorded 21 March 1963).
|
Mar 29
Friday
|
UK single release: `Some Other
Guy', 1st record of the Big Three.
|
Mar 29
Friday
|
Performance at the Odeon, Lewisham
(Chris Montez and Tommy Roe Tour). Two shows.
|
Mar 30
Saturday
|
Concert at the Guildhall,
Portsmouth (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
|
Mar 31
Sunday
|
Concert at the De Montfort Hall,
Leicester (end of Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour).
|
Apr 01
Monday
|
Performance in the `Poll Winner's
Concert', at the Wembley Empire Pool, organized by `New Musical Express'.
|
Apr 01
Monday
|
Number 1 Studio, Piccadilly
Theatre, London. 2.30-6.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Side By Side': `Side By
Side'; `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Do You Want To Know A Secret'; `Baby It's
You'; `Please Please Me'; `From Me To You'; `Misery'. 1st `Side By Side'
performance.
|
Apr 01
Monday
|
Number 1 Studio, Piccadilly
Theatre, London. 6.30-10.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Side By Side': `Side By
Side'; `From Me To You'; `Long Tall Sally'; `A Taste Of Honey'; `Chains';
`Thank You Girl'; `Boys'.
|
Apr 03
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 2nd week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `How Do You Do It?', with Gerry
and the Pacemakers, number 1, 1st week (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Apr 03
Wednesday
|
The Playhouse Theatre.
8.30-9.45pm. Recording for BBC's `Easy Beat': `Please Please Me'; `Misery';
`From Me To You'. Only live take of `Misery'.
|
Apr 04
Thursday
|
BBC Paris Studio, London.
11.00am-2.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Side By Side': `Side By Side'; `Too Much
Monkey Business'; `Love Me Do'; `Boys'; `I'll Be On My Way'; `From Me To
You'. After BBC session, photographic sessions with Dezo Hoffmann at
mens-wear store Cecil Gee, London, and outside the BBC Paris Studio. After
BBC session, the Beatles drive to Stowe School, Buckinghamshire. Performance
at the Roxburgh Hall, Stowe School. Photographer David Magnus takes pictures
of the performance, and at the Marble Hall. The Beatles spend the night at
the Green Man Hotel, in the village of Syresham, Buckinghamshire.
|
Apr 04
Thursday
|
Billy J. Kramer records `I'll Be
On My Way' at EMI Studios.
|
Apr 05
Friday
|
EMI House, ground floor studio.
Performance before EMI executives, journalists and photographers from British
pop newspapers. The Beatles are presented with awards, a silver disc for
Please Please Me single. Evening. New Public Baths, Leyton, London. Main Bath
Hall. Beatles live performance.
|
Apr 07
Sunday
|
10.31-11.30am. BBC's `Easy Beat'
broadcast (recorded 3 April 1963).
|
Apr 08
Monday
|
Morning: John Charles Julian
Lennon is born at the General Hospital, Sefton, Liverpool. John phones to the
hospital.
|
Apr 09
Tuesday
|
Gaumont State Cinema, West
Hampstead, London. Ballroom. 1-hour show.
|
Apr 09
Tuesday
|
Wembley TV Studios, Wembley,
Middlesex. Live appearance on Associated-Rediffusion's `Tuesday Rendezvous'.
|
Apr 10
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 3rd week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Apr 11
Thursday
|
|
Apr 12
Friday
|
Performance at the Cavern, with
Faron's Flamingos, the Roadrunners and the Dennisons.
|
Apr 13
Saturday
|
Studio E, BBC Lime Grove Studios,
London. Filming appearance on BBC-TV's `The 625 Show'. 1st BBC-TV appearance.
Evening. Home of Bruce Welch, 157 Headstone Lane, North Harrow, Middlesex.
Party thrown by Welch. The Beatles attend. They meet Cliff Richard for the
first time.
|
Apr 14
Sunday
|
Teddington TV Studios, Middlesex.
Filming for ABC-TV's `Thank Your Lucky Stars'. After they drive to the
Crawdaddy Club. Evening. The Beatles see the Rolling Stones at the Crawdaddy
Club, Richmond, Surrey, London. After the show, party at Jagger, Jones and
Richards's flat (102 Edith Grove, West Brompton, London). The Beatles attend,
staying until 4am.
|
Apr 15
Monday
|
John escapes to Liverpool to visit
Cynthia and see Julian for the first time at the General Hospital, Sefton. He
announces he chose Brian as godfather, and that he will soon leave with him
on vacation to Spain.
|
Apr 16
Tuesday
|
BBC-TV's `625 Show' broadcast
(filmed 13 April 1963).
|
Apr 17
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 4th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Apr 18
Thursday
|
The Royal Albert Hall, London.
9.10-10.15pm. Broadcasting live BBC's `Swingin' Sound '63': `Twist And
Shout'; `From Me To You'. Only appearance on live concerts at the Albert Hall
transmitted by the BBC. The bill includes Del Shannon, who decides to record
a Beatles' song. Jane attends `Swingin' Sound '63' with reporter Tony Aspler,
of `Radio Times', to give him her impressions of the show. After the concert
at the Albert Hall, Paul meets Jane.
|
Apr 21
Sunday
|
Afternoon. Empire Pool, Wembley,
Middlesex. Performance for the `New Musical Express' Poll Winner's concert.
|
Apr 21
Sunday
|
Concert at the Pigalle night club,
London.
|
Apr 22
Monday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Side By Side'
broadcast (recorded 1 April 1963).
|
Apr 24
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 5th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Apr 24
Wednesday
|
Performance at the Majestic
Ballroom, Finsbury Park, London (`Mersey Beat Showcase' banner).
|
Apr 25
Thursday
|
Performance at the Fairfield
Halls, Croydon, Surrey (`Mersey Beat Showcase' banner).
|
Apr 26
Friday
|
UK LP release: `Please Please Me'
(stereo version). UK single release: `Do You Want To Know A Secret'/`I'll Be
On My Way', 1st record by Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Apr 28
Sunday
|
Brian and John fly to Spain for a
12-day vacation.
|
May 01
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 6th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
May 01
Wednesday
|
Tony Barrow becomes the Beatles'
press agent.
|
May 02
Thursday
|
`From Me To You' number 1 (UK
Record Retailer chart).
|
May 02
Thursday
|
Issue of `Radio Times', with Tony
Aspler's report on the show `Swingin' Sound '63' and picture of Jane
screaming for the Beatles.
|
May 04
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
1st week (UK Melody Market chart?). `From Me To You' number 1, 1st week (UK
Melody Market chart?).
|
May 08
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 7th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
May 10
Friday
|
George recommends the Rolling
Stones to Dick Rowe, of Decca A & R.
|
May 11
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1, 1st
week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
May 11
Saturday
|
Concert at the Imperial Ballroom,
Nelson.
|
May 12
Sunday
|
John returns from his vacations in
Spain.
|
May 12
Sunday
|
John and Cynthia register Julian.
[Some day between 12 and 18 May.]
|
May 13
Monday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Side By Side'
broadcast (recorded 1 April 1963).
|
May 13
Monday
|
John and Cynthia register Julian.
[Some day between 12 and 18 May.]
|
May 14
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Rank, Sutherland.
|
May 14
Tuesday
|
John and Cynthia register Julian.
[Some day between 12 and 18 May.]
|
May 15
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 8th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
May 15
Wednesday
|
Concert at the Royalty, Chester.
|
May 15
Wednesday
|
John and Cynthia register Julian.
[Some day between 12 and 18 May.]
|
May 16
Thursday
|
John and Cynthia register Julian.
[Some day between 12 and 18 May.]
|
May 16
Thursday
|
BBC Television Theatre, London.
Appearance on BBC-TV's `Pops And Lenny'. Transmitted live.
|
May 17
Friday
|
John and Cynthia register Julian.
[Some day between 12 and 18 May.]
|
May 17
Friday
|
Jaep Music Limited, music
publishing company, is incorporated, with Brian and Dick James opening
directors.
|
May 17
Friday
|
Dezo Hoffmann's Wardour St. studio
photosession.
|
May 18
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
2nd week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
May 18
Saturday
|
Performance at the Granada,
Slough. Start of third British tour, with Roy Orbison and Gerry and the
Pacemakers.
|
May 18
Saturday
|
The Beatles are presented with a
silver disc for `From Me To You', at the Adelphi theatre.
|
May 18
Saturday
|
John and Cynthia register Julian.
[Some day between 12 and 18 May.]
|
May 19
Sunday
|
Concert at the Gaumont, Hanley
(3rd British tour).
|
May 20
Monday
|
Concert at the Gaumont,
Southampton (3rd British tour).
|
May 21
Tuesday
|
The Playhouse Theatre, London.
5.30-6.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Saturday Club': `I Saw Her Standing There';
`Do You Want To Know A Secret'; `Boys'; `Long Tall Sally'; `From Me To You';
`Money (That's What I Want)'.
|
May 21
Tuesday
|
The Playhouse Theatre, London.
7.15pm. Recording for BBC's `Steppin' Out': `Please Please Me'; `I Saw Her
Standing There'; `Roll Over Beethoven'; `Thank You Girl'; `From Me To You';
`Twist And Shout'. 1st BBC take of `Roll Over Beethoven'.
|
May 22
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 9th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
May 22
Wednesday
|
Concert at the Gaumont, Ipswich
(3rd British tour).
|
May 23
Thursday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Nottingham (3rd
British tour).
|
May 24
Friday
|
Concert in Harrow (3rd British
tour). Evening: Two performances at the Granada, Walthamstowe, London (3rd
British tour).
|
May 25
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
3rd week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
May 25
Saturday
|
Performance at the City Hall,
Sheffield (3rd British tour). Partially recorded for BBC's `Saturday Club'.
|
May 25
Saturday
|
10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Saturday
Club' broadcast (recorded 21 May 1963).
|
May 25
Saturday
|
Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian Hall,
London. 2.00-6.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The
Beatles'; `From Me To You'; `Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby'; `Do You Want
To Know A Secret'; `You Really Got A Hold On Me'; `Misery'; `The Hippy Hippy
Shake'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. 1st performance for `Pop Go The Beatles'.
|
May 26
Sunday
|
Concert at the Empire, Liverpool
(3rd British tour).
|
May 27
Monday
|
Concert at the Capitol, Cardiff
(3rd British tour).
|
May 27
Monday
|
|
May 28
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Gaumont, Worcester
(3rd British tour).
|
May 29
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 10th week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
May 29
Wednesday
|
Concert at the Rialto, York (3rd
British tour).
|
May 29
Wednesday
|
`Do You Want To Know A Secret',
with Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, number 1 (UK New Musical Express
chart).
|
May 30
Thursday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Manchester
(3rd British tour). Concert at the Granada, Kingston (3rd British tour).
|
May 31
Friday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Southend
(3rd British tour).
|
May 31
Friday
|
Signing of agency contract of NEMS
Enterprises and Freddie Starr and the Midnighters. Another new group for
Brian: the Fourmost.
|
Jun 01
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
4th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Jun 01
Saturday
|
Two performances at the Granada,
Tooting, London (3rd British tour).
|
Jun 01
Saturday
|
BBC Paris Studio, London.
1.30-5.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles';
`Too Much Monkey Business'; `I Got To Find My Baby'; `Youngblood '; `Baby
It's You'; `Till There Was You'; `Love Me Do'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. Only
available take of `Youngblood'.
|
Jun 01
Saturday
|
BBC Paris Studio, London.
9.30am-1.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The
Beatles'; `A Shot Of Rythm And Blues'; `Memphis Tennessee'; `A Taste Of
Honey'; `Sure To Fall (In Love With You)'; `Money (That's What I Want)';
`From Me To You'; `Pop Go The Beatles'.
|
Jun 01
Saturday
|
Brian, present at BBC Paris
Studio, London, for the recording of `Pop Go The Beatles', meets Sean
O'Mahoney and discusses the possibility of a weekly magazine dedicated to the
Beatles being published.
|
Jun 02
Sunday
|
Concert at the Hippodrome,
Brighton (3rd British tour).
|
Jun 03
Monday
|
10.00-11.15pm. BBC's `Steppin'
Out' broadcast (recorded 21 May 1963).
|
Jun 03
Monday
|
Two performances at the Granada,
Woolwich (3rd British tour). Concert at the Granada, Walthamstow (3rd British
tour).
|
Jun 04
Tuesday
|
John Profumo declares he lied
about his relationship with Christine Keller. He leaves his charge as
Minister of War and member of the Parliament.
|
Jun 04
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Town Hall,
Birmingham (3rd British tour).
|
Jun 04
Tuesday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The
Beatles' broadcast (recorded 25 May 1963).
|
Jun 05
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 11th week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Jun 05
Wednesday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Leeds (3rd
British tour).
|
Jun 07
Friday
|
Dr. Stephen Ward is arrested.
|
Jun 07
Friday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Glasgow (3rd
British tour).
|
Jun 08
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
5th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Jun 08
Saturday
|
Concert at the City Hall,
Newcastle (3rd British tour).
|
Jun 08
Saturday
|
Magazine `Valentine' publishes
photographs of the Beatles at the swimming pool of the University of London
Union.
|
Jun 09
Sunday
|
Concert at the King George Hall,
Blackburn. End of 3rd British tour.
|
Jun 09
Sunday
|
Vacations in Liverpool begin.
|
Jun 10
Monday
|
US single release: `Do You Want To
Know A Secret'/`I'll Be On My Way', 1st record of Billy J. Kramer with the
Dakotas.
|
Jun 11
Tuesday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The
Beatles' broadcast (recorded 1 June 1963).
|
Jun 12
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 12th week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Jun 12
Wednesday
|
The London `Daily Sketch'
reproduces charts of `Melody Maker' (Britain) and `Cash Box' (USA).
|
Jun 12
Wednesday
|
Acts managed by Brian occupy
places 1, 2 and 3 of the New Musical Express chart.
|
Jun 12
Wednesday
|
Charity performance at the Grafton
Ballroom, Liverpool.
|
Jun 13
Thursday
|
The production company Gerry and
the Pacemakers Limited is incorporated, with Brian one of its opening
directors.
|
Jun 14
Friday
|
7.30pm, 11.30pm. Concert at the
New Brighton Tower, Liverpool, with Gerry and the Pacemakers, plus 5 support
groups.
|
Jun 15
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
6th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Jun 15
Saturday
|
Performance at City Hall,
Fisherton Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
|
Jun 16
Sunday
|
Performance at the Odeon, Romford,
with Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
|
Jun 17
Monday
|
Studio Number 5, BBC Maida Vale
Studios, London. 10.30am-1.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles':
`Pop Go The Beatles'; `Anna (Go To Him)'; `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Boys';
`Chains'; `P.S. I Love You'; `Twist And Shout'; `Pop Go The Beatles'; `A
Taste Of Honey'. Last programme of the series `Pop Go The Beatles', according
to the initial plans. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann takes pictures of the
Beatles during the session and having lunch in the BBC staff restaurant.
After the recording session, Hoffmann photographs the Beatles `bumping' Paul
(celebrating his 21st birthday) in the middle of Delaware Road.
|
Jun 18
Tuesday
|
Paul's birthday party, at aunt
Jin's house, in Huyton. John has a fight with Bob Wooler. 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's
`Pop Go The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 1 June 1963).
|
Jun 18
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Winters Garden,
Margate.
|
Jun 19
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 13th week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Jun 19
Wednesday
|
The Playhouse Theatre, London.
8.45-9.45pm. Recording for BBC's `Easy Beat': `Some Other Guy'; `A Taste Of
Honey'; `Thank You Girl'; `From Me To You'. 1st time Ringo uses his Ludwig
drum kit in a live performance. Photographer present: Dezo Hoffmann.
|
Jun 20
Thursday
|
The production company The Beatles
Limited is incorporated, with Brian one of its opening directors.
|
Jun 20
Thursday
|
[Probably.] Dezo Hoffmann's
Studio, 29 Wardour Street, London. Session of formal individual portraits of
John, Paul and Ringo.
|
Jun 21
Friday
|
Performance at the Surrey Odeon
Cinema.
|
Jun 22
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
7th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Jun 22
Saturday
|
Paul, George and Ringo leave from
London to Abergavenny in the group's van. London. Mid-evening. Westland
Heliport. John boards a chartered chopper and flies to Abergavenny. Couple of
hours later. Performance at the Town Hall, Abergavenny.
|
Jun 22
Saturday
|
BBC Television Theatre, London.
John tapes an appearance as jury on BBC-TV's `Juke Box Jury'.
|
Jun 23
Sunday
|
10.31-11.30am. BBC's `Easy Beat'
broadcast (recorded 19 June 1963).
|
Jun 24
Monday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Side By Side'
broadcast (recorded 4 July 1963).
|
Jun 24
Monday
|
The Playhouse Theatre, London.
5.30-6.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Saturday Club'; `I Got To Find My Baby';
`Memphis, Tennessee'; `Money (That's What I Want)'; `Till There Was You';
`From Me To You'; `Roll Over Beethoven'.
|
Jun 25
Tuesday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The
Beatles' broadcast (all 17 June 1963 session but `A Taste Of Honey').
|
Jun 26
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 14th week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Jun 26
Wednesday
|
John and Paul compose `She Loves
You' at their hotel room in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
|
Jun 27
Thursday
|
Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas
record `Bad To Me'/`I Call Your Name' at Abbey Road. Paul attends.
|
Jun 28
Friday
|
Concert at the Queen's Hall,
Leeds.
|
Jun 29
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
8th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Jun 29
Saturday
|
Broadcast of `Juke Box Jury', with
John's appearance as judge (recorded 22 June 1963).
|
Jun 29
Saturday
|
Broadcast of `Thank Your Lucky
Stars', with recording of the Beatles and other Liverpool groups, under the
name `Mersey Beat'.
|
Jun 29
Saturday
|
10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Saturday
Club' broadcast (recorded 24 June 1963).
|
Jun 30
Sunday
|
Concert at the Regal, Yarmouth.
|
Jul 01
Monday
|
Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm.
7.00-10.00pm. Recording: `She Loves You' (takes unknown); `Get You In The
End' (working title of `I'll Get You') (takes unknown). Producer: George
Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick. Start of
sessions for the single `She Loves You'/`I'll Get You'.
|
Jul 01
Monday
|
Alley to the left of Abbey Road
Studios. During a break in the recording session, photographic session.
|
Jul 02
Tuesday
|
Number 5 Studio, BBC Maida Vale
Studios, London. 6.30-9.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop
Go The Beatles'; `That's Alright Mama'; `There's A Place'; `Carol'; `Soldier
Of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)'; `Lend Me Your Comb'; `Clarabella'; `Pop Go The
Beatles'; `Three Cool Cats'; `Sweet Little Sixteen'; `Ask Me Why'. Only BBC
take of `That's Alright Mama'.
|
Jul 02
Tuesday
|
Dezo Hoffmann's `A Day In The Life
Of The Beatles' sessions: 1) Room 114, Hotel President; 2) Reception area,
Hotel President; 3) Guildford Street, walking towards Russell Square; 4)
Russell Square Gardens; 5) Rupert Street (buying bananas at a stall on the
corner at 5-7 Brewer Street); 6) Dougie A. Millings and Son, tailors; 7)
Delicatessen Shop; 8) Shirtmaker Mr A Maknyick's shop; 9) Rupert Court; 10)
Buying ice cream at Kontact cafe; 11) 27 Wardour Street, in front of the
Garner's restaurant; 12) Dezo Hoffmann's studio (to take portraits of John
and George).
|
Jul 03
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 15th week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Jul 03
Wednesday
|
The Playhouse Theatre, Manchester.
8.00-9.00pm. Recording for BBC's `The Beat Show': `From Me To You'; `A Taste
Of Honey'; `Twist And Shout'.
|
Jul 03
Wednesday
|
EMI audition of The Fourmost.
|
Jul 04
Thursday
|
Studio 2 (control room only).
10.00am-1.00pm. Editing: `She Loves You' (of takes unknown). Mono mixing:
`She Loves You' (from edit of unknown take number); `Get You In The End'
(working title of `I'll Get You') (from unknown take number). Producer:
George Martin; Engineer: unknown; 2nd Engineer: unknown. End of sessions for
`She Loves You'/`I'll Get You'.
|
Jul 04
Thursday
|
1.00-1.30pm. BBC's `The Beat Show'
broadcast (recorded 3 July 1963).
|
Jul 04
Thursday
|
The Beatles with Peter Asher see
for the second time the Rolling Stones, performing at `The Scene', 41 Great
Windmill Street, London.
|
Jul 05
Friday
|
Brian verbally agrees on the
Beatles doing a tour of Australia in 1964.
|
Jul 05
Friday
|
Concert at the Plaza Ballroom,
Oldhill.
|
Jul 06
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
9th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Jul 07
Sunday
|
Ringo celebrates his birthday with
relatives and musician friends.
|
Jul 07
Sunday
|
Concert at the ABC, Blackpool.
|
Jul 08
Monday
|
1st recording session of Tommy
Quickly.
|
Jul 08
Monday
|
Beginning of performances at the
Winter Gardens, Margate, with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Jul 09
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Winter Gardens,
Margate, with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Jul 10
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 16th week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Jul 10
Wednesday
|
Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian Hall.
10.30am-1.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The
Beatles'; `Sweet Little Sixteen'; `A Taste Of Honey'; `Nothin' Shakin' (But
The Leaves On The Trees)'; `Love Me Do'; `Lonesome Tears In My Eyes'; `So How
Come (No One Loves Me)'; `Pop Go The Beatles'.
|
Jul 10
Wednesday
|
Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian Hall.
1.30-3.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles';
`Memphis, Tennessee'; `Do You Want To Know A Secret'; `Till There Was You';
`Matchbox'; `Please Mister Postman'; `The Hippy Hippy Shake'; `Pop Go The
Beatles'.
|
Jul 10
Wednesday
|
Concert at the Winter Gardens,
Margate, with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Jul 11
Thursday
|
Performance at the Winter Gardens,
Margate, with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Jul 12
Friday
|
|
Jul 12
Friday
|
A new concert promotion company,
NEMS Presentations Limited, is incorporated, with Brian one of the opening
directors.
|
Jul 12
Friday
|
Performance at the Winter Gardens,
Margate, with Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas.
|
Jul 13
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
10th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Jul 13
Saturday
|
End of performances at the Winter
Gardens, Margate, with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Jul 13
Saturday
|
A contest is run on this day's
issue of teen magazine `Boyfriend'. Prize: a lunch with the Beatles and
attendance to a Beatles recording session. `Boyfriend' first publishes
photograph from its Euston Road session.
|
Jul 16
Tuesday
|
BBC Paris Studios, London.
3.00-5.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' (8th edition): `Pop
Goes The Beatles'; `I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You)'; `Crying,
Waiting, Hoping'; `Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!'; `To Know Her Is To love
Her'; `The Honeymoon Song'; `Twist And Shout'; `Pop Goes The Beatles'. The
only BBC recording of all these songs, except `Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!'
and `Twist And Shout'.
|
Jul 16
Tuesday
|
BBC Paris Studio, London.
6.00-8.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' (9th edition): `Pop
Goes The Beatles'; `Long Tall Sally'; `Please Please Me'; `She Loves You';
`You Really Got A Hold On Me'; `I'll Get You'; `I Got A Woman'; `Pop Goes The
Beatles'.
|
Jul 16
Tuesday
|
BBC Paris Studio, London.
8.45-10.50pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' (10th edition): `Pop
Goes The Beatles'; `She Loves You'; 'Words Of Love'; `Glad All Over'; `I Just
Don't Understand'; `Devil In Her Heart'; `Slow Down'; `Pop Goes The Beatles'.
`She Loves You' is the same version recorded earlier today (6.00-8.30pm
session). Only take of `I Just Don't Understand', and only BBC take of `Slow
Down'.
|
Jul 16
Tuesday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Goes The
Beatles' broadcast (2 July 1963 session, except `3 Cool Cats', `Sweet Little
Sixteen' and `Ask Me Why').
|
Jul 17
Wednesday
|
Epstein signs a contract for the
Beatles to perform at the Olympia Theatre, Paris, in January 1964.
|
Jul 17
Wednesday
|
The Playhouse Theatre, London.
8.45-9.45pm. Recording for BBC's `Easy Beat': `I Saw Her Standing There'; `A
Shot Of Rythm And Blues'; `There's A Place'; `Twist And Shout'. Only live
take of `A Shot Of Rythm And Blues'.
|
Jul 17
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 17th week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Jul 18
Thursday
|
Studio 2. 7.00-10.45pm. Recording:
`You Really Got A Hold On Me' (takes 1-11); `Money (That's What I Want)'
(takes 1-7); `Devil In Her Heart' (takes 1-6); `Till There Was You' (takes
1-3). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard
Langham. First session for `With The Beatles' LP.
|
Jul 20
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1 (UK
Record Retailer chart).
|
Jul 20
Saturday
|
Brian parts company with the Big
Three.
|
Jul 21
Sunday
|
10.31-11.30pm. BBC's `Easy Beat'
broadcast (recorded 17 July 1963).
|
Jul 21
Sunday
|
Concert at the Queen's Theatre,
Blackpool.
|
Jul 22
Monday
|
|
Jul 22
Monday
|
Beatles' English tour begins, with
Gerry and the Pacemakers and Tommy Quickly, at Weston-Super-Mare, Odeon
Cinema. Tommy Quickly's debut on stage. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann present.
|
Jul 23
Tuesday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The
Beatles' (6th edition) broadcast (recorded 10 July 1963, 10.30am-1.30pm).
|
Jul 24
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 18th week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Jul 25
Thursday
|
Test session of Cilla Black for
EMI.
|
Jul 26
Friday
|
UK single release: `Bad To Me',
with Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas.
|
Jul 27
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
12th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Jul 27
Saturday
|
End of English tour with Gerry and
the Pacemakers and Tommy Quickly, at the Odeon Cinema, Weston-Super-Mare.
Photographer Dezo Hoffmann present.
|
Jul 28
Sunday
|
Concert at the ABC, Great
Yarmouth.
|
Jul 29
Monday
|
4pm. Washington Hotel, London. 32
photographs taken by `Radio Times' photographer Don Smith in a bedroom.
Later, photo session with Marc Sharratt on the hotel roof, and individual
photos (order: George, Ringo, John, Paul).
|
Jul 30
Tuesday
|
Studio 2. 10.00am-1.30pm.
Recording: `Please Mister Postman' (takes 1-9); `It Won't Be Long' (takes
1-10). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard
Langham.
|
Jul 30
Tuesday
|
|
Jul 30
Tuesday
|
The Playhouse Theatre, London. Much
earlier than 5.30-6.30pm, the contracted time. Recording for BBC's `Saturday
Club': `Long Tall Sally'; `She Loves You'; `Glad All Over'; `Twist And
Shout'; `You Really Got A Hold On Me'; `I'll Get You'.
|
Jul 30
Tuesday
|
Studio 2. 5.00-11.00pm. Recording:
`Money (That's What I Want)' (piano test, plus takes 8-14); `Till There Was
You' [re-make] (takes 4-8); `Roll Over Beethoven' (takes 1-8); `It Won't Be
Long' (takes 11-23); `All My Loving' (takes 1-14). Producer: George Martin;
Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham.
|
Jul 30
Tuesday
|
UK single release: `Tip Of My
Tongue', Tommy Quickly's debut.
|
Aug 01
Thursday
|
The Playhouse Theatre, Manchester.
1.30-4.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles';
`Ooh! My Soul'; `Don't Ever Change'; `Twist And Shout'; `She Loves You';
`Anna (Go To Him)'; `A Shot Of Rythm And Blues'; `Pop Go The Beatles'.
|
Aug 01
Thursday
|
The Playhouse Theatre, Manchester.
4.00-6.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles';
`From Me To You'; `I'll Get You'; `Money (That's What I Want)'; `There's A
Place'; `Honey Don't'; `Roll Over Beethoven'; `Lucille'; `Baby It's You';
`Pop Go The Beatles'.
|
Aug 01
Thursday
|
1st issue of `The Beatles Monthly
Book', published by Sean O'Mahony.
|
Aug 01
Thursday
|
Concert at Southport.
|
Aug 02
Friday
|
It is reported that the Beatles,
Gerry and the Pacemakers, and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, have sold, in
the UK only, over 2.5 million records in 6 months.
|
Aug 02
Friday
|
Concert at the Grafton Ballroom,
Liverpool. Provisional timings: 7.30-8.30. Chick Graham and the Coasters.
8.30-9.30. Sonny Webb and the Cascades. 9.30-10.00. The Beatles. 10.00-11.00.
The Undertakers. 11.00-11.30. The Beatles. 11.30-12.30. The Dennisons.
|
Aug 03
Saturday
|
Stephen Ward dies of overdoseof
Nembutal.
|
Aug 03
Saturday
|
Performance at the Cavern, with
the Mersey Beats, The Escorts, The Road Runners, The Sapphires, and Johnny
Ringo & The Colts. Last Beatles performance at the Cavern Club.
|
Aug 03
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
13th week (UK `Record Retailer' chart).
|
Aug 03
Saturday
|
UK single release: `Hello Little
Girl', with the Fourmost.
|
Aug 04
Sunday
|
Concert at the Queens Theatre,
Blackpool.
|
Aug 05
Monday
|
Performance on the `A Twist And
Shout Dance' Festival, at the Abbotsfield Park, Urmston, Manchester, with
Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, the Dennisons, and Johnny Martin and the
Tremors. 11.30am. Opening of the Festival.
|
Aug 06
Tuesday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles'
broadcast (recorded 16 July 1963, 3.00-5.00pm).
|
Aug 06
Tuesday
|
NEMS Enterprises, Brian and a
staff of 3 move to new premises in Liverpool, at 24 Moonfields.
|
Aug 06
Tuesday
|
Concert at the St Helier
Springfield Ballroom, Jersey.
|
Aug 07
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 20th week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Aug 07
Wednesday
|
Concert at the St Helier
Springfield Ballroom, Jersey.
|
Aug 08
Thursday
|
Yoko's daughter, Kyoko Cox, is
born.
|
Aug 08
Thursday
|
Concert at the St Helier
Springfield Ballroom, Jersey.
|
Aug 09
Friday
|
Concert at the St Helier
Springfield Ballroom, Jersey.
|
Aug 10
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
14th week (UK `Record Retailer' chart).
|
Aug 11
Sunday
|
Concert at the ABC, Blackpool.
|
Aug 12
Monday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Llandudno,
with Tommy Quickly and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Aug 13
Tuesday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The
Beatles' is broadcast (recorded 16 July 1963, 6.00-8.30pm).
|
Aug 13
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Llandudno,
with Tommy Quickly and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Aug 14
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 21st week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Aug 14
Wednesday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Llandudno,
with Tommy Quickly, and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Aug 15
Thursday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Llandudno,
with Tommy Quickly, and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Aug 16
Friday
|
The weekly musical newspapers
announce details of the first joint tour promotion by Brian Epstein and Arthur
Howes.
|
Aug 16
Friday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Llandudno,
with Tommy Quickly, and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Aug 17
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
15th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Aug 17
Saturday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Llandudno,
with Tommy Quickly, and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Aug 18
Sunday
|
Concert at the Princess Theatre,
Torquay.
|
Aug 19
Monday
|
Concert at the Gaumont,
Bournemouth, with Tommy Quickly, and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Aug 19
Monday
|
Appearance on Granada TV's `Scene
at 6:30'.
|
Aug 20
Tuesday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The
Beatles' broadcast (recorded 16 July 1963, 8.45-10.50pm).
|
Aug 20
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Gaumont,
Bournemouth, with Tommy Quickly, and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Aug 21
Wednesday
|
Studio 3 (control room only).
10.00am-1.00pm, 2.00-5.30pm. Editing: `Money (That's What I Want)' (of takes
6, 7); `You Really Got A Hold On Me' (of takes 7, 10, 11); `Roll Over
Beethoven' (of takes 7, 8); `It Won't Be Long' (of takes 17, 21). Mono
mixing: `Devil In Her Heart' (from take 6); `Money (That's What I Want)'
(from edit of takes 6, 7); `You Really Got A Hold On Me' (from edit of takes
7, 10, 11); `Please Mister Postman' (from take 9); `Till There Was You' (from
take 8); `Roll Over Beethoven' (from edit of takes 7, 8); `All My Loving'
(from take 14); `It Won't Be Long' (from edit of takes 17, 21). Producer:
George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick.
|
Aug 21
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 22nd week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Aug 21
Wednesday
|
Concert at the Gaumont,
Bournemouth, with Tommy Quickly and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Aug 22
Thursday
|
It is announced that 500 000
advance orders have been received for the next British Beatles single (`She
Loves You'/`I'll Get You').
|
Aug 22
Thursday
|
Concert at the Gaumont,
Bournemouth, with Tommy Quickly and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Aug 23
Friday
|
|
Aug 23
Friday
|
Concert at the Gaumont,
Bournemouth, with Tommy Quickly and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Aug 24
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, number 1,
16th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Aug 24
Saturday
|
10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Saturday
Club' broadcast (recorded 30 July 1963).
|
Aug 24
Saturday
|
Concert at the Gaumont,
Bournemouth, with Tommy Quickly and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
|
Aug 24
Saturday
|
Appearance on ABC-TV's `Thank Your
Lucky Stars'.
|
Aug 25
Sunday
|
Concert at the Queen's Theatre,
Blackpool.
|
Aug 26
Monday
|
Concert at the Odeon Cinema,
Southport. Support acts: Tommy Quickly, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Cilla Black
(making her first major appearance on stage).
|
Aug 27
Tuesday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The
Beatles' broadcast (recorded 1 August 1963, 1.30-4.00pm).
|
Aug 27
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Odeon Cinema,
Southport, with Tommy Quickly and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
|
Aug 28
Wednesday
|
First recording session of Cilla
Black, at EMI Studios.
|
Aug 28
Wednesday
|
`Please Please Me' LP, 23rd week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Aug 28
Wednesday
|
|
Aug 29
Thursday
|
Concert at the Odeon Cinema,
Southport, with Tommy Quickly and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
|
Aug 30
Friday
|
UK single release: `Hello Little
Girl', with The Fourmost.
|
Aug 30
Friday
|
It is announced that Gerry and the
Pacemakers will star in a Christmas pantomime, `Babes In The Wood'. It will
be promoted by Brian with Joe Collins.
|
Aug 30
Friday
|
Concert at the Odeon Cinema,
Southport, with Tommy Quickly and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
|
Aug 31
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
17th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Aug 31
Saturday
|
Concert at the Odeon Cinema,
Southport, with Tommy Quickly and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
|
Sep 01
Sunday
|
ABC's Studio One, Didsbury Studio
Centre, Manchester. Performance taped for ABC's `Big Night Out'.
|
Sep 03
Tuesday
|
`She Loves You' reaches over
500,000 sold issues in the UK.
|
Sep 03
Tuesday
|
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 It's You'.)
|
Sep 03
Tuesday
|
Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian Hall.
2.00-4.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles';
`Too Much Monkey Business'; `Love Me Do'; `She Loves You'; `I'll Get You'; `A
Taste Of Honey'; `The Hippy Hippy Shake'; `Pop Go The Beatles'.
|
Sep 03
Tuesday
|
Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian Hall.
5.00-7.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles';
`Chains'; `You Really Got A Hold On Me'; `Misery'; `Lucille'; `From Me To
You'; `Boys'; `Pop Go The Beatles'.
|
Sep 03
Tuesday
|
Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian Hall.
8.00-10.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles';
`She Loves You'; `Ask Me Why'; `Devil In Her Heart'; `I Saw Her Standing
There'; `Sure To Fall (In Love With You)'; `Twist And Shout'; `Pop Go The
Beatles'. `She Loves You' is the same version recorded earlier this day (3
September 1963 2.00-4.30pm session). Last performance for `Pop Go The
Beatles'.
|
Sep 03
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Queen's Theatre,
Blackpool.
|
Sep 04
Wednesday
|
Concert at the Gaumont, Worcester.
|
Sep 04
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You' number 1, 1st week
in the ranking (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 24th
week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Sep 05
Thursday
|
Concert at the Gaumont, Taunton.
|
Sep 06
Friday
|
|
Sep 06
Friday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Luton.
|
Sep 06
Friday
|
`The Beatles Christmas Show' is
announced.
|
Sep 06
Friday
|
Brian signs his first girl singer,
Cilla Black. At his home, 380 Scotland Road, Liverpool, her father is
convinced by Brian of the convenience of her changing her artistic surname to
`Black'.
|
Sep 07
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
18th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Sep 07
Saturday
|
Concert at the Fairfield Halls,
Croydon, Surrey.
|
Sep 07
Saturday
|
Broadcast of ABC-TV's `Big Night
Out', with performance recorded 1 September 1963.
|
Sep 07
Saturday
|
The Playhouse Theatre, London.
1.00-4.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Saturday Club': `I Saw Her Standing There';
`Memphis, Tennessee'; `Happy Birthday Saturday Club'; `I'll Get You'; `She
Loves You'; `Lucille'. Recording for the 5th anniversary edition of `Saturday
Club'.
|
Sep 07
Saturday
|
28 Maitland Court, home address of
Donald Zec. The Beatles are interviewed by Donald Zec (published on the
`Daily Mirror', 10 September 1963). [8, 9 September 1963?]
|
Sep 08
Sunday
|
Concert at the ABC Theatre,
Blackpool.
|
Sep 08
Sunday
|
28 Maitland Court, home address of
Donald Zec. The Beatles are interviewed by Donald Zec (published on the
`Daily Mirror', 10 September 1963). [7, 9 September 1963?]
|
Sep 09
Monday
|
28 Maitland Court, home address of
Donald Zec. The Beatles are interviewed by Donald Zec (published on the
`Daily Mirror', 10 September 1963). [7, 8 September 1963?]
|
Sep 10
Tuesday
|
Savoy Hotel. Luncheon hosted by
the Variety Club Of Great Britain. The Beatles are awarded `Best Vocal Disc
Of The Year' (`From Me To You'), as voted by readers of `Melody Maker'. After
the luncheon, the Beatles, Billy J. Kramer and Susan Maughan pose for
photographers in Victoria Embankment Gardens, behind the Savoy. Early afternoon.
John and Paul go by taxi from the Savoy Hotel to their apartment (57 Green
Street). While riding down Jermyn Street, they see Andrew Oldham, who invites
them to see the Rolling Stones. Afternoon. The Rolling Stones rehearse at the
Ken Colyer Club. John, Paul and Andrew Oldham attend. John and Paul offer `I
Wanna Be Your Man' to them.
|
Sep 10
Tuesday
|
The `Daily Mirror' publishes the
first long interview to the Beatles: `Four frenzied Little Lord Fauntleroys
who are making 50,000 pounds every week.'
|
Sep 10
Tuesday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The
Beatles' broadcast (recorded 3 September 1963, 2.00-4.30pm).
|
Sep 11
Wednesday
|
Studio 2. 2.30-6.00pm. Recording:
`I Wanna Be Your Man' (take 1); `Little Child' (takes 1-2); `All I've Got To
Do' (takes 1-15). Studio 2. 7.00-10.15pm. Recording: `Not A Second Time'
(takes 1-9); `Don't Bother Me' (takes 1-7). Producer: George Martin;
Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham.
|
Sep 11
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You' number 1, 2nd week
(UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 25th week in the Top
10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Sep 12
Thursday
|
Studio 2. 2.30-6.30pm. Recording:
Messages To Australia (takes 1-4); `Hold Me Tight' [re-make] (takes 20-29).
Studio 2. 7.00-11.30pm. Recording: `Don't Bother Me' [re-make] (takes 10-19);
`Little Child' (takes 3-18); `I Wanna Be Your Man' (takes 2-7). Producer:
George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham.
|
Sep 13
Friday
|
Concert at the Public Hall,
Preston.
|
Sep 14
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
19th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Sep 14
Saturday
|
Marriage of Clive John Epstein and
Barbara Mattison, at the Greenbank Drive Synagogue, Liverpool. Brian is best
man.
|
Sep 14
Saturday
|
Concert at the Memorial Hall,
Nantwich.
|
Sep 15
Sunday
|
Concert at the Royal Albert Hall,
London, topping the bill for `Great Pop Prom'.
|
Sep 16
Monday
|
|
Sep 16
Monday
|
Start of Beatles' vacations.
|
Sep 17
Tuesday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The
Beatles' broadcast (recorded 3 September 1963 5.00-7.30pm).
|
Sep 17
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Queen's Theatre,
Blackpool.
|
Sep 18
Wednesday
|
Epstein affirms he has no
intention of selling, after rumors that he has received bids for the agency
side of NEMS Enterprises.
|
Sep 18
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You' number 1, 3rd week
(UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 26th week in the Top
10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Sep 21
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
20th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Sep 23
Monday
|
US single release: `Bad To Me',
with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas. [According to my sources, this record
got on the Billboard chart. So I doubt this happened in 1963. Rather I think
it was in 1964 Does anybody have a clue?]
|
Sep 24
Tuesday
|
5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The
Beatles' broadcast (recorded 3 September 1963 8.00-10.00pm).
|
Sep 24
Tuesday
|
Alistair Taylor writes a letter to
Brian.
|
Sep 25
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You' number 1, 4th and
last week (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 27th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Sep 27
Friday
|
UK single release: `Love Of The
Loved', first record by Cilla Black.
|
Sep 27
Friday
|
It is reported that Brian plans to
move NEMS Enterprises from Liverpool to London, early in 1964.
|
Sep 28
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
21st week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Sep 30
Monday
|
Studio 2 (control room only).
10.00am-1.15pm. Editing: `Little Child' (of takes 15, 18); `Hold Me Tight'
(of takes 26, 29). Recording: `Money (That's What I Want)' (3 unnumbered
takes of overdub onto take 7); `I Wanna Be Your Man' (takes 8-13, of overdub
onto take 7). Mono mixing: `All I've Got To Do' (from take 15); `Don't Bother
Me' (from take 15); `Little Child' (from edit of takes 15, 18); `Hold Me
Tight' (from edit of takes 26, 29); `Not A Second Time' (from take 9).
Producer: George Martin; Editing: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick.
Recording of piano for `Money (That's What I Want)' and Hammond organ for `I
Wanna Be Your Man'.
|
Sep 30
Monday
|
A review indicates that the
Beatles have the most sold LP (`Please Please Me'), EP (`Twist And Shout')
and single (`She Loves You') in Britain (Record Retailer).
|
Sep 30
Monday
|
Billy J. Kramer Limited, a new
producing company, is incorporated, with Brian one of its opening directors.
|
Sep 30
Monday
|
Brian writes to Alistair Taylor,
from Liverpool, to confirm his date to have lunch.
|
Oct 01
Tuesday
|
Brian writes to the `Glasgow
Record and Mail', making clear that the first two hits of Gerry and the
Pacemakers were not written by Lennon and McCartney, but by Mitch Murray.
|
Oct 02
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You', 5th week in the
Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 28th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Oct 02
Wednesday
|
Harold McMillan renounces his
position as Prime Minister.
|
Oct 03
Thursday
|
Studio 2. 7.00-10.00pm. Recording:
`I Wanna Be Your Man' (takes 14-15); `Little Child' (takes 19-21). Producer:
George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: unknown.
|
Oct 04
Friday
|
Television House. Performance for
Associated-Rediffusion's `Ready, Steady, Go!', transmitted live.
|
Oct 05
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
22nd week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Oct 05
Saturday
|
10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Saturday
Club' broadcast (recorded 7 September 1963).
|
Oct 05
Saturday
|
Concert at the Concert Hall,
Glasgow.
|
Oct 06
Sunday
|
Concert at the Regal, Kircaldy.
|
Oct 07
Monday
|
Date proposed by Brian to Alistair
Taylor to have lunch together.
|
Oct 07
Monday
|
Concert at the Caird Hall, Dundee.
|
Oct 07
Monday
|
[Some day between 7-13 October.]
Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play `A Funny Thing Happened On
The Way To The Forum'.
|
Oct 08
Tuesday
|
[Some day between 7-13 October.]
Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play `A Funny Thing Happened On
The Way To The Forum'.
|
Oct 09
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You', 6th week in the
Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 29th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Oct 09
Wednesday
|
BBC Paris Studio, London.
10.00-11.00pm. Recording for BBC's `The Ken Dodd Show': `She Loves You'.
|
Oct 09
Wednesday
|
Broadcast of `The Mersey Sound'
[`The Mersey Beat'?], television BBC documentary. It includes images and an
interview with Brian.
|
Oct 09
Wednesday
|
[Some day between 7-13 October.]
Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play `A Funny Thing Happened On
The Way To The Forum'.
|
Oct 09
Wednesday
|
Recording for BBC's `The Public
Ear'.
|
Oct 09
Wednesday
|
(After 8 October's midnight.) The
Beatles see a Ronald Kirk performance at the Ronnie Scott Club, London.
|
Oct 10
Thursday
|
[Some day between 7-13 October.]
Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play `A Funny Thing Happened On
The Way To The Forum'.
|
Oct 11
Friday
|
[Some day between 7-13 October.]
Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play `A Funny Thing Happened On
The Way To The Forum'.
|
Oct 11
Friday
|
Concert at the Stoke Trentham
Gardens, Stoke-on-Trent.
|
Oct 12
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
23rd week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Oct 12
Saturday
|
[Some day between 7-13 October.]
Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play `A Funny Thing Happened On
The Way To The Forum'.
|
Oct 13
Sunday
|
Evening: Performance on BBC-TV's
`Sunday Night at the London Palladium'. Brian attends.
|
Oct 13
Sunday
|
[Some day between 7-13 October.]
Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play `A Funny Thing Happened On
The Way To The Forum'.
|
Oct 14
Monday
|
Photographs of the London
Palladium performance are published on the front pages of every London
newspaper.
|
Oct 15
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Floral, Southport.
|
Oct 15
Tuesday
|
57 Green Street, London. 4.30pm.
Session with `The Beatles Book' photographer Leslie Bryce. 2 shots, in the
staircase.
|
Oct 16
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You', 7th week in the
Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 30th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Oct 16
Wednesday
|
Bernard Delfont announces the
Beatles will perform at the Royal Command Performance.
|
Oct 16
Wednesday
|
Evening: Concert at the Floral
Hall, Southport.
|
Oct 16
Wednesday
|
The Playhouse Theatre, London.
9.00-10.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Easy Beat': `I Saw Her Standing There';
`Love Me Do'; `Please Please Me'; `From Me To You'; `She Loves You'. Last BBC
performance of `Love Me Do' and `Please Please Me'.
Read the
interview on this day
|
Oct 17
Thursday
|
Lunch with the winners (Karen,
Anne, Vicky, Susan) of competition in the teen magazine `Boyfriend' at the
restaurant Old Vienna.
|
Oct 17
Thursday
|
Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm,
7.00-10.00pm. Recording: `The Beatles' Christmas Record' (unnumbered takes);
`You Really Got A Hold On Me' (take 12); `I Want To Hold Your Hand' (takes
1-17); `This Boy' (takes 1-17). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith;
2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick. First Christmas record. First session for `I
Want To Hold Your Hand'/`This Boy'. First 4-track Beatles recording.
|
Oct 18
Friday
|
Concert at the Shrewsbury Music
Hall.
|
Oct 19
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1, 24th
week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Oct 20
Sunday
|
10.31-11.30pm. BBC's `Easy Beat'
broadcast (recorded 16 October 1963).
|
Oct 20
Sunday
|
Recording of performance for
ABC-TV's `Thank Your Lucky Stars' in Birmingham.
|
Oct 21
Monday
|
Studio 1 (control room only).
10.00am-1.00pm. Mono mixing: `I Want To Hold Your Hand' (from take 17); `This
Boy' (remixes 1, 2, from take 15). Editing: `This Boy' (of mono remixes 1,
2). Stereo mixing: `I Want To Hold Your Hand' (remix 1, from take 17).
Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: not assigned.
End of sessions for `I Want To Hold Your Hand'/`This Boy'.
|
Oct 23
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You', 8th week in the
Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 31st week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
|
Oct 23
Wednesday
|
Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm.
Recording: `I Wanna Be Your Man' (take 16). Mono mixing: `I Wanna Be Your
Man' (from take 16); `Little Child' (from edit of takes 15, 18); `Hold Me
Tight' (from edit of takes 26, 29). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman
Smith; 2nd Engineer: unknown.
|
Oct 23
Wednesday
|
The Beatles on the way to
Stockholm, Sweden. Brian is interviewed for the new Southern TV programme
`For Art's Sake'. After the programme Brian flies to Sweden to join the
group's tour.
|
Oct 24
Thursday
|
Start of Sweden Tour. Concert at
the Karlaplansstudion, Karlaplan, Stockholm. Recorded for Swedish radio and
for Swedish TV, through the programme `Drop In'.
|
Oct 25
Friday
|
Two concerts at the Sundsta-aulan,
Karlstad, Sweden.
|
Oct 26
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
25th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Oct 26
Saturday
|
Two concerts at the Kungliga
Tennishallen, Stockholm.
|
Oct 26
Saturday
|
Broadcast of ABC-TV's `Thank Your
Lucky Stars', with a performance recorded 20 October 1963, in Birmingham.
|
Oct 26
Saturday
|
Brian's first appearance on `Juke
Box Jury', with Jimmy Henney and Barbara Young. After the show, Brian has
dinner with Lionel Bart.
|
Oct 27
Sunday
|
Debut of Billy J. Kramer with the
Dakotas on `Sunday Night at the London Palladium'. Brian attends.
|
Oct 27
Sunday
|
Two concerts in Goteborg.
|
Oct 28
Monday
|
Brian returns from Sweden to the
UK.
|
Oct 28
Monday
|
Concert at Borashallen, Boras.
|
Oct 29
Tuesday
|
Concert in Eskilstuna. End of
first European tour (Sweden).
|
Oct 29
Tuesday
|
Epstein accepts the production of
the first Beatle film.
|
Oct 29
Tuesday
|
Studio 3. 10.00am-1.00pm. Stereo
mixing: `It Won't Be Long' (from edit of takes 17, 21); `All I've Got To Do'
(from take 15); `All My Loving' (from take 14); `Don't Bother Me' (from take
15); `Little Child' (from take 21); `Till There Was You' (from take 8);
`Please Please Me' (from take 9); `Roll Over Beethoven' (from edit of takes
7, 8); `Hold Me Tight' (from edit of takes 26, 29); `You Really Got A Hold On
Me' (from edit of takes 7, 10, 11); `I Wanna Be Your Man' (from take 16);
`Devil In Her Heart' (from take 6); `Not A Second Time' (from take 9); `Money
(That's What I Want)' (from edit of takes 6, 7). Producer: George Martin;
Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick and B. T. [Full name
unknown.]
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Oct 30
Wednesday
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Studio 3 (control room only).
2.30-5.30pm. Stereo mixing: `Money (That's What I Want)' (from take 7).
Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: A. B. Lincoln.
End of work on `With The Beatles'.
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Oct 30
Wednesday
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`She Loves You', 9th week in the
Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 32nd week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
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Oct 30
Wednesday
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Recording for the Swedish TV
programme `Drop In'.
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Oct 31
Thursday
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Heathrow Airport, London. The
Beatles return to England from Sweden. When they arrive, they coincide at the
airport with the Prime Minister, Miss Universe and Ed Sullivan.
Read the
interview on this day
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Nov 01
Friday
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Start of `The Beatles Autumn
Tour', 4th UK tour, along with The Brooks Brothers, and Peter Jay and the
Jaywalkers. Evening: Concert at the Odeon Cinema, Cheltenham.
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Nov 01
Friday
|
UK EP release: `The Beatles (No 1)'.
UK single release: `I Wanna Be Your Man', with the Rolling Stones. UK single
release: `I'll Keep You Satisfied', with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
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Nov 02
Saturday
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`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
26th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
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Nov 02
Saturday
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Concert at the City Hall,
Sheffield (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 02
Saturday
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The `Daily Express' says that this
mass hysteria (over the Beatles) only serves to fill empty heads.
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Nov 03
Sunday
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Concerts at the Odeon, Leeds (`The
Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 03
Sunday
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2.30-3.00pm. BBC's `The Ken Dodd
Show' broadcast (recorded 9 October 1963). BBC's `The Public Ear' broadcast
(recorded 9 October 1963). Performance broadcast on the Swedish TV programme
`Drop In' (recorded 30 October 1963).
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Nov 04
Monday
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`With The Beatles' LP is cut at
Abbey Road.
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Nov 04
Monday
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Appearance on the `Royal Command
(Variety) Performance', at the Prince Of Wales Theatre, London. Brian and
Dezo Hoffmann attend. BBC-TV films the concert. After, the Beatles retire to
the bar of the Mapleton Hotel, 39 Coventry Street, London.
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Nov 05
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Adelphi, Slough (`The
Beatles Autumn Tour'). Concert at the Granada, East Ham (`The Beatles Autumn
Tour').
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Nov 05
Tuesday
|
`Daily Mirror' headline:
`Beatlemania!'. Brian packs the press reports and, in the morning, flies from
the London Airport to the Idlewild Airport, New York, with Billy J. Kramer.
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Nov 06
Wednesday
|
Concert at the ABC, Northampton
(`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 06
Wednesday
|
8.00-8.30pm. BBC's `The Ken Dodd
Show' broadcast (recorded 9 October 1963).
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Nov 06
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You', 10th week in the
Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 33rd week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
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Nov 06
Wednesday
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Night. Performance at the Star
Club.
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Nov 07
Thursday
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Nov 08
Friday
|
Concert at the Ritz, Belfast (`The
Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 09
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
27th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
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Nov 09
Saturday
|
Two performances at the Granada,
East Ham, London (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). Concert at the Adelphi, Slough
(`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 09
Saturday
|
The Beatles attend a party at the
washing-machine tycoon John Bloom's house, 60 Park Lane, Mayfair, London.
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Nov 10
Sunday
|
Concert at the Hippodrome,
Birmingham (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 10
Sunday
|
Broadcast of `Royal Command
(Variety) Performance', BBC-TV (recorded 4 November).
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Nov 11
Monday
|
Birmingham. The Beatles escape
from the crowd disguised as policemen.
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Nov 11
Monday
|
Brian meets Ed Sullivan in New
York and negotiates appearances on his show for the Beatles and Gerry and the
Pacemakers. Brian gives CBS-TV one year's exclusive rights to the Beatles US
television appearances.
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Nov 11
Monday
|
US single release: `I'll Keep You
Satisfied', with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
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Nov 12
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Guild Hall,
Portsmouth (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). Postponed because of Paul being sick.
|
Nov 13
Wednesday
|
Paul's got a flu. Hour after hour,
bullettins report his condition.
|
Nov 13
Wednesday
|
Concert at the ABC, Plymouth (`The
Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 13
Wednesday
|
Re-broadcasting of `The Mersey
Sound', BBC-TV documentary.
|
Nov 13
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You', 11th week in the
Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 34th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
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Nov 14
Thursday
|
Concert at the ABC, Exeter (`The
Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 15
Friday
|
Concert at the Colston Hall,
Bristol (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 15
Friday
|
Start of the first tour promoted
jointly by Epstein and Arthur Howes, at the Odeon Cinema, Luton, featuring
Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, supported by Johnny Kid and the Pirates,
the Caravelles, Tommy Quickly, the Fourmost, and Houston Wells and the
Marksmen.
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Nov 15
Friday
|
US release: `Hello Little Girl',
with the Fourmost. UK release: `I'm In Love', with the Fourmost.
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Nov 16
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
28th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
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Nov 16
Saturday
|
Evening. Concert at the Winter
Gardens, Bournemouth (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). Filmed by US TV.
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Nov 17
Sunday
|
Concert at the Coventry Theatre,
Coventry (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 18
Monday
|
Newspapers publish that a priest
of the Church of England asks the Beatles to record a Christmas song.
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Nov 18
Monday
|
On a press report, Brian asks the
fans not to throw things to the stage during the tour in progress.
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Nov 18
Monday
|
EMI House, 6th floor boardroom.
Lunch, along with Brian and Martin, with EMI highest executives. EMI House,
ground floor studio. The Beatles are presented with awards.
|
Nov 18
Monday
|
[Possibly.] Evening: John and Paul
see the musical `Six Of One' at the Adelphi Theatre.
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Nov 19
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Gaumont,
Wolverhampton (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 20
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You', 12th week in the
Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 35th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
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Nov 20
Wednesday
|
Concert at the Ardwick Apollo,
Manchester (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). Filmed by ABC-TV.
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Nov 21
Thursday
|
Concert at the ABC, Carlisle (`The
Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 22
Friday
|
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Nov 22
Friday
|
`With The Beatles' has already
sold 300000 copies in advance.
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Nov 22
Friday
|
Concert at the Globe, Stockton
(`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 22
Friday
|
It is announced that the next UK
Gerry and the Pacemakers tour will be promoted by Brian and Arthur Howes.
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Nov 23
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
29th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
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Nov 23
Saturday
|
Concert at the City Hall,
Newcastle (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 23
Saturday
|
US TV broadcasts the Bournemouth
Winters Garden concert (filmed 16 November).
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Nov 24
Sunday
|
Concert at the ABC, Hull (`The
Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 25
Monday
|
Studio Four, Granada TV Centre,
Manchester. Granada's Scene (or Scene At 6.30) and Late Scene Extra
programmes. One of the last appearances where John still has his first Gibson
J-160E guitar. The guitar was stolen soon afterwards.
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Nov 26
Tuesday
|
Concert at the ABC, Cambridge
(`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 27
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You' number 1, 13th
week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP,
36th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles'
enters the ranking on number 1 (UK New Musical Express chart).
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Nov 27
Wednesday
|
Concert at the Rialto, York (`The
Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 27
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You' has sold over
1,000,000 copies in the UK.
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Nov 28
Thursday
|
Concert at the ABC, Lincoln (`The
Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 29
Friday
|
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Nov 29
Friday
|
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' has
sold 950 000 copies in advance: a new mark and gold record.
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Nov 29
Friday
|
Concert at the ABC, Huddersfield
(`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Nov 30
Saturday
|
`Please Please Me' LP number 1,
30th and last week (UK Record Retailer chart).
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Nov 30
Saturday
|
Concert at the Empire, Sunderland
(`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Dec 01
Sunday
|
Concert at the De Montfort Hall,
Leicester (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Dec 02
Monday
|
The contract for the 1964
Australia tour is signed.
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Dec 02
Monday
|
Studio C, ATV studios,
Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. Recording for ATV's `The Morecambe and Wise
Show'. Brian Epstein, Brian Sommerville and Dezo Hoffmann attend. Live
performance, performance of `On Moonlight Bay' with Morecambe and Wise, and
sketch. Evening: Performance at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, for the
Stars Organization for Spastics. Last cabaret performance. Brian attends.
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Dec 03
Tuesday
|
Concert at the Guild Hall,
Portsmouth (`The Beatles Autumn Tour') (postponed 12 November).
|
Dec 04
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You', 14th week in the
Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 37th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 2nd
week (UK New Musical Express chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 1st
week (UK New Musical Express chart).
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Dec 06
Friday
|
The members of the Beatles Fans
Club receive the first Christmas record.
|
Dec 07
Saturday
|
`With The Beatles' number 1, 1st
week (UK Record Retailer chart).
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Dec 07
Saturday
|
BBC's `It's The Beatles' filmed at
the Fans Club Convention.
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Dec 07
Saturday
|
Concert at the Empire, Liverpool.
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Dec 08
Sunday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Lewisham
(`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). 2 shows.
|
Dec 08
Sunday
|
End of 1st tour promoted jointly
by Brian and Arthur Howes, with Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, and support
acts, at the Capitol Cinema, Cardiff.
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Dec 09
Monday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Southend
(`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
|
Dec 10
Tuesday
|
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Dec 11
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You', 15th week in the
Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 38th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 3rd
week (UK New Musical Express chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 2nd
week (UK New Musical Express chart).
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Dec 11
Wednesday
|
The Beatles go by train to
Liverpool. Appearance on BBC TV's `Juke Box Jury', at the Moss Empire,
Liverpool. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann present.
|
Dec 11
Wednesday
|
Concert at the Futurist,
Scarborough (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Dec 12
Thursday
|
Concert at the Odeon, Nottingham.
|
Dec 13
Friday
|
Concert at the Gaumont,
Southampton. End of `The Beatles Autumn Tour'.
|
Dec 13
Friday
|
The Beatles have singles number 1
and 2; EPs number 1, 2 and 3; and LPs number 1 and 2 (UK Record Retailer
chart).
|
Dec 13
Friday
|
The club `Ad Lib' opens at 7
Leicester Place, London.
|
Dec 14
Saturday
|
`With The Beatles' number 1, 2nd
week (UK Record Retailer chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1 (UK
Record Retailer chart [?]).
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Dec 14
Saturday
|
Southern Area Fan Club Convention,
Wimbledon Palais, Wimbledon, London. Afternoon. Beatles greeting each fan
attending, at the bar. Evening. Concert. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann present.
1st time crowd barriers are used for a Beatles concert.
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Dec 15
Sunday
|
Merseybeat performance for 'Thank
Your Lucky Stars' with host Cilla Black.
|
Dec 17
Tuesday
|
Being an hour early for today's
BBC session, the Beatles buy clothes at Simpson's, 203 Piccadilly, London.
[18 December?]
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Dec 17
Tuesday
|
The Playhouse Theatre, London.
3.00-6.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Saturday Club': `All I Want For Christmas';
`All My Loving'; `This Boy'; `I Want To Hold Your Hand'; `Till There Was You';
`Roll Over Beethoven'; `She Loves You'; `Crimble Medley'. Christmas special
edition.
|
Dec 18
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You', 16th week in the
Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 39th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 4th
week (UK New Musical Express chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 3rd
week (UK New Musical Express chart).
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Dec 18
Wednesday
|
Being an hour early for today's
BBC session, the Beatles buy clothes at Simpson's, 203 Piccadilly, London.
[17 December?]
|
Dec 18
Wednesday
|
BBC Paris Studio, London.
7.00-10.30pm. Recording for BBC's `From Us To You' (1st edition): `From Us To
You'; `She Loves You'; `All My Loving'; `Roll Over Beethoven'; `Till There
Was You'; `Boys'; `Money (That's What I Want)'; `I Saw Her Standing There';
`Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport'; `I Want To Hold Your Hand'; `From Us To You'.
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Dec 21
Saturday
|
`With The Beatles' number 1, 3rd
week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Dec 21
Saturday
|
First `Christmas Show', at the
Gaumont, Bradford, with various artists managed by Brian.
|
Dec 21
Saturday
|
10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Saturday
Club' broadcast (recorded 17 December 1963).
|
Dec 22
Sunday
|
Christmas concert at the Empire,
Liverpool.
|
Dec 22
Sunday
|
ABC-TV broadcasts the concert at
the Ardwick Apollo, Manchester (recorded 20 November 1963). Recording of
Christmas edition of `Thank Your Lucky Stars'.
|
Dec 23
Monday
|
Radio Luxembourg's `It's The
Beatles' series begins.
|
Dec 24
Tuesday
|
Start of the daily `Beatles
Christmas Shows', at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London, with Billy J.
Kramer with the Dakotas, Tommy Quickly, Cilla Black, and the Fourmost, plus
the Barron Knights with the Duke D'Mond, and Rolf Harris as compere.
Photographer Dezo Hoffmann attends. After the show, Brian hires a night
flight to take most of the bill to Liverpool for Christmas.
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Dec 24
Tuesday
|
Start of Christmas pantomime
`Babes In the Wood', with Gerry and the Pacemakers, at the Gaumont, Hanley.
|
Dec 25
Wednesday
|
The flight hired by Brian takes
the Christmas Show bill back from Liverpool, in time for this day's
performance. `Beatles Christmas Show' at the Astoria, Finsbury Park, London.
|
Dec 25
Wednesday
|
`She Loves You', 17th week in the
Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 40th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 5th
week (UK New Musical Express chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 4th
week (UK New Musical Express chart).
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Dec 26
Thursday
|
US single release: `I Want To Hold
Your Hand'/`I Saw Her Standing There'.
|
Dec 26
Thursday
|
`Beatles Christmas Show', at the
Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London.
|
Dec 26
Thursday
|
10.00-12.00am. 1st BBC's `From Us
To You' broadcast (recorded 18 December 1963).
|
Dec 27
Friday
|
London `Times' critics award
Lennon and McCartney as the best composers of the year.
|
Dec 27
Friday
|
`Beatles Christmas Show', at the
Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London.
|
Dec 27
Friday
|
UK single release: `Love Of The
Loved', with Cilla Black.
|
Dec 28
Saturday
|
`With The Beatles' number 1, 4th
week (UK Record Retailer chart).
|
Dec 28
Saturday
|
`Beatles Christmas Show', at the
Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London.
|
Dec 28
Saturday
|
`New Yorker' publishes a Brian
Epstein interview. 1st serious article about the Beatles or Brian in the US.
|
Dec 29
Sunday
|
12.50am. New York WMCA broadcasts
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' for the first time in the USA.
|
Dec 29
Sunday
|
The `Sunday Times' critic Richard
Buckle praises the Beatles as the greatest composers since Beethoven.
|
Dec 30
Monday
|
`Beatles Christmas Show', at the
Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London.
|
Dec 31
Tuesday
|
`Beatles Christmas Show', at the
Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London.
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