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The Beatles left the Philippines on 5 July 1966, amid chaotic and violent scenes.
"Brian Epstein was punched in the face and kicked in the groin… We did our best to shield John, Paul, George and Ringo."
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3 July 1969:
Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr record the vocals for the Beatles' song Carry That Weight.
McCartney also adds rhythm guitar and two lead vocal tracks, and Harrison tapes some lead guitar.
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3 July 1968:
The Beatles begin recording Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da for the White Album.
It is later subject to two remakes, and isn't completed for another six sessions.
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3 July 1966:
The Beatles arrive in Manila – the start of their troubled visit to the Philippines.
Ringo Starr: "I hated the Philippines… Everyone had guns and it was really like that hot/Catholic/gun/Spanish Inquisition attitude."
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3 July 1965:
The Beatles' 1965 European Tour ends with a concert in the Spanish city of Barcelona.
Paul McCartney: "The Lord Mayor had great seats and all the rich people had seats but the kids, our real audience, were outside."
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2 July 1969:
Paul McCartney records Her Majesty in three takes.
McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr then record the backing track of Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight, for the Beatles' Abbey Road finale.
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2 July 1966:
The Beatles' last two shows at the Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan, each seen by 10,000 fans.
George Martin: "They had such heavy guards that they couldn't move anywhere. The Japanese took those death threats very seriously."
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2 July 1965:
The Beatles play their only concert in Madrid, Spain.
Ringo Starr: "The police were so violent. It was the first time I'd really seen police beating kids up. I went to a bullfight there, and it was the saddest thing I ever saw."
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2 July 1963:
The Beatles record nine songs for the BBC radio show Pop Go The Beatles.
They include That's All Right (Mama), Carol, Soldier Of Love, Clarabella (Live At The BBC), and Lend Me Your Comb (Anthology 1).
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1 July 1969:
Paul McCartney adds his vocals to You Never Give Me Your Money, for the Abbey Road album.
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1 July 1969:
John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Julian and Kyoko are hospitalised after Lennon crashes their car in Scotland.
Lennon, Ono and Kyoko sustain cuts to the face, and Ono's back is injured. Julian Lennon is treated for shock.
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1 July 1968:
John Lennon and Yoko Ono launch their first joint art exhibition.
You Are Here (To Yoko from John Lennon, With Love) takes place at the Robert Fraser Gallery at 69 Duke Street, London.
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1 July 1966:
The Beatles perform two shows at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
George Harrison: "It was a warm reception – but a bit clinical, as Japan is."
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1 July 1963:
The Beatles record She Loves You in a five-hour session at EMI Studios, Abbey Road.
They also tape the single's b-side, I'll Get You, under its working title Get You In The End.
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1 July 1961:
The 92nd and final night of the Beatles' lengthiest Hamburg residency, at the Top Ten Club.
They first played at the Top Ten on 1 April 1961, and performed for more than 500 hours during their three months working at the club.
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27 June 1968:
The Beatles record the backing track for Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey.
The sixth and final take was considered the best, and was given overdubs on this date and 1 and 23 July.
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27 June 1965:
The Beatles play two shows at the Teatro Adriano in Rome, Italy.
Noël Coward, playwright: "The noise was deafening throughout and I couldn’t hear a word they sang or a note they played."
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27 June 1964:
The Beatles perform two shows in Christchurch, New Zealand, their last in that country.
Around 5,000 fans greeted the band as their aeroplane from Dunedin landed in Christchurch. They performed at the Majestic Theatre.
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27 June 1963:
John Lennon and Paul McCartney finish writing She Loves You at Paul's dad's house in Liverpool.
"We sat in there one evening, just beavering away while my dad was watching TV and smoking his Players cigarettes, and we wrote She Loves You."
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26 June 1966:
The Beatles return to Hamburg for two shows – their first in the German city since 1962.
While there they meet several old friends, including Astrid Kirchherr, who gives John Lennon several letters written by Stuart Sutcliffe.
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26 June 1965:
The Beatles perform two shows in Genoa, Italy, at the 25,000-seat Palazzo dello Sport arena.
Tickets for the afternoon appearance sell poorly, with just 5,000 fans seeing the Beatles play; the evening show is seen by 10,000.
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26 June 1964:
The Beatles play two shows in Dunedin, New Zealand, each seen by 4,000 fans – and John Lennon is mobbed by fans!
"I thought a big clump of my hair had definitely gone; and I don't mean just a bit."
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26 June 1964:
The soundtrack album for the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night is released in the USA.
As well as the Beatles' songs, there are four instrumentals by George Martin and his orchestra. The album tops the US charts for 14 weeks.
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26 June 1963:
John Lennon and Paul McCartney begin writing She Loves You in a Newcastle hotel room.
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Paul: "We must have had a few hours before the show so we said, 'Oh, great! Let's have a ciggy and write a song!'"
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25 June 1967:
The Beatles perform All You Need Is Love via satellite to 400 million people!
Ringo: "We were big enough to command an audience of that size, and it was for love. It was for love and bloody peace."
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25 June 1966:
The Beatles perform two shows at the Grugahalle in Essen, Germany.
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25 June 1964:
The Beatles play two shows in Auckland, New Zealand.
John Lennon: "It was one of the quickest and most pleasant receptions we’ve ever been to. We went out onto a balcony and waved to the crowd, some Maoris danced for us, and away we went."
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16 April 2021:
McCartney III Imagined, a collection of cover versions and remixes of Paul McCartney’s McCartney III, is released.
It is initially released digitally, with a physical release following on 23 July.
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16 April 1969:
The Beatles record George Harrison's song Old Brown Shoe, the b-side of their single The Ballad Of John And Yoko.
"Again, it's the duality of things – yes no, up down, left right, right wrong, etcetera."
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16 April 1966:
The Beatles finish recording Rain, with overdubs including John Lennon's backwards vocals.
Paul McCartney: "The most interesting thing about it wasn't the writing, which was tilted 70-30 to John, but the recording of it."
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16 April 1966:
The Beatles finish recording Rain, with overdubs including John Lennon's backwards vocals.
Paul McCartney: "The most interesting thing about it wasn't the writing, which was tilted 70-30 to John, but the recording of it."
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16 April 1964:
The Beatles record the song A Hard Day's Night in three hours and nine takes.
Paul McCartney: "It seemed a bit ridiculous writing a song called A Hard Day’s Night – it sounded funny at the time."
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16 April 1964:
The Beatles go on the run (again) in A Hard Day's Night.
They film the chase scenes outside the police station, and run up a dead end – as seen on the front of The Beatles: Rock Band!
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Restored by Peter Jackson, the Beatles’ 1970 film Let It Be is coming to Disney+ on 8 May 2024. Hurrah!
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For much more on the Beatles and drugs, don't miss Riding So High – the highly-acclaimed full-length book by the Beatles Bible's creator.
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4 April 1967:
Paul McCartney smokes weed and jams with Jefferson Airplane in San Francisco, but declines an offer of DMT mixed with cannabis.
McCartney also plays the band an acetate of the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
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3 April 1967:
Eight violins and three cellos are overdubbed onto George Harrison's Sgt Pepper song Within You Without You.
Harrison then recorded his lead vocals and a sitar part, completing the song.
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3 April 1964:
The Beatles film a cinema trailer for A Hard Day's Night, while sitting in a pair of babies' prams!
"Hey Paul."
"What?"
"Tell 'em about the songs and that…"
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29 March 1982:
Ebony And Ivory, Paul McCartney's duet with Stevie Wonder, is released as a single.
Produced by George Martin, Ebony And Ivory tops the Billboard Hot 100 chart for seven weeks, becoming the fourth biggest hit in the USA in 1982.
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29 March 1967:
The Beatles record With A Little Help From My Friends in ten takes.
The backing track has piano, guitar, drums, cowbell, and organ, with overdubbed lead and backing vocals. The song is completed the following day.
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28 March 1967:
John Lennon records his lead vocals for the Sgt Pepper song Good Morning Good Morning, and Paul McCartney adds a guitar solo.
The Beatles also begin assembling a tape of animal noises for the song's finale.
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27 March 1981:
John Lennon’s single Watching The Wheels is released in the UK.
The cover photograph, taken by Paul Goresh, shows Lennon and Yoko Ono outside the Dakota building in New York City.
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27 March 1978:
Wings’ seventh album, London Town, is released in the USA.
London Town was recorded in six groups of sessions in England, Scotland, and the Caribbean, in 1977 and early 1978.
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27 March 1970:
Ringo Starr’s debut solo album, Sentimental Journey, is released in the UK.
Produced by George Martin, the album contains 12 pre-rock ‘n’ roll songs that Starr knew from his Liverpool childhood.
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27 March 1970:
Phil Spector mixes Dig It for the Let It Be album.
He also prepares snippets of dialogue for the LP, including: "That was 'Can You Dig It' by Georgie Wood…", "I Dig A Pygmy…", and "Thanks Mo"/"I hope we passed the audition."
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27 March 1961:
The Beatles travel to Germany for their second Hamburg residency, at the Top Ten Club. Their first performance at the club is on 1 April.
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26 March 1976:
Wings’ fifth album, Wings At The Speed Of Sound, is released in the UK.
Paul McCartney: "It turned out less of a McCartney production and more of a Wings effort. It wasn’t intended like that."
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26 March 1970:
Phil Spector mixes four Beatles songs in stereo: The Long And Winding Road, Let It Be, Get Back, and Maggie Mae.
The mixes of The Long And Winding Road are used by session musicians during the 1 April orchestral overdub.
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26 March 1968:
Paul McCartney and Jane Asher return to London from India.
"I came back after four or five weeks knowing that was like my allotted period, thinking, No, well, no, I won't go out and become a monk but it was really very interesting…"
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Wings’ fifth album, Wings At The Speed Of Sound, was released in the USA on 22 March 1976.
Paul McCartney: "It turned out less of a McCartney production and more of a Wings effort. It wasn’t intended like that."
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