Beatles Appreciation Thread

[NinaFromCanadaEh]

november 3

1965
The Beatles recorded “Michelle” from 2:30 to 11:30 p.m. at the EMI Studios on Abbey Road in London.

1967
The filming for The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour was completed finishing with a sequence at Ringo’s country house in Weybridge, Surrey, BBC television bought the rights to broadcast the film twice, the first broadcast, in black-and-white was scheduled for December 26, 1967. The second showing, on the color channel BBC2, was not yet available to all Britons, was set for January 5, 1968.

2015
A lock of John Lennon’s hair was one of 350 items put up for auction on the website Julien’s Live. Other items up for grabs included a long-lost acoustic guitar that belonged to Lennon, a drumhead from the Beatles’ 1964 visit to The Ed Sullivan Show, Elvis Presley’s 24 karat gold leaf grand piano, and several items from Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch.

[NinaFromCanadaEh]

November 4, 1963
The Beatles appear at the Royal Command Performances at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London. In attendance are the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and Lord Snowden. It was here that John Lennon made his now famous announcement: “For our last number, I’d like to ask for your help. The people in the cheaper seats clap your hands and the rest of you, if you’d just rattle your jewellery, we’d like to sing a song called Twist and Shout.” John would later say “I was fantastically nervous, but I wanted to rebel a bit and that was the best I could do.”

1964
The Beatles finished recording the album Beatles for Sale.

November 04, 1974
Even though he was the one who was the most opposed to touring in the final years of The Beatles, George Harrison became the first to set out on a solo tour when he appeared in Vancouver, Canada with Billy Preston. It will be a troublesome show for him as his voice is ravaged after LP sessions and tour rehearsals. The concert and the rest of the tour played in front of thin crowds.

The Beatles were famous for double-sided hits and Paul McCartney continued the practice with his group Wings as they released “Junior’s Farm”

[NinaFromCanadaEh]

november 9

1961

Brian Epstein went to Liverpool’s Cavern Club to see The Beatles perform for the first time. He had been getting requests at his NEMS music store for a record called “My Bonnie”. After several more visits, Epstein would offer to manage the group, which he did until his death in 1967.

1966

John Lennon first met Yoko Ono at a showing of her work at the Indica Art Gallery in London. She doesn’t know who Lennon is. The two wouldn’t get together until 1968.

1967
The first issue of the Rock and Roll magazine Rolling Stone, which included a free roach clip with every subscription, is published in San Francisco. The name of the magazine was compiled from three significant sources: the Muddy Waters song, the first rock ‘n’ roll record by Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones. The cover featured a photo of John Lennon from his movie, How I Won The War.



2000
The Beatles launched their official internet web site, www.thebeatles.com

[NinaFromCanadaEh]

November 13,

1963

The Beatles recorded a television interview at Westward Television Studios in Plymouth, Devon, for a local teen program “Move Over, Dad”. Due to a large crowd of excited fans outside, The Beatles had to be smuggled from their dressing-room at the ABC Cinema, where they were scheduled to appear that night, into an adjacent building, then through a tunnel, to get to Westward Studios for the interview taping.

Paul McCartney catches the flu. Hour-by-hour progress reports on his condition appear in the British press.

1968
“Yellow Submarine,” the animated film featuring music by the Beatles, with Paul Angelis, John Clive, Geoffrey Hughes, and Peter Batten providing the speaking voices of Ringo, John, Paul and George, respectively, opened in U.S. and Canadian movie theaters.

1969
Having bought the island of Dorinch off Ireland, John Lennon declares any hippie who wishes is free to live there.

2005

Astronauts aboard the U.S. space station were awakened by “Good Day Sunshine,” sung live by Paul McCartney from his Anaheim, California concert.