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Did you know ?
• The Beatles’ third studio album “A Hard Day’s Night” is the only album in Beatles’ career that exclusively contains Lennon-McCartney compositions. Since it was agreed that any song written by either John or Paul is credited as a Lennon-McCartney creation, people are not really sure but John is said to have largely written 10 of its 13 tracks.
• There are only seven persons allowed in the Beatles’ magic circle. Aside from the Fab Four, the only ones allowed inside the recording booth are record producer George Martin, road managers Neill Aspinall and Mal Evans. Not until John fell for Yoko Ono who even had a bed inside the studio.
• The sleeve of the Beatles’ first LP “Please Please Me” had the distinction of having credited John and Paul’s compositions as McCartney–Lennon instead of Lennon–McCartney. One reason could be the fact that the first two Beatle songs chosen to be put on record (by the group’s producer) are “Love Me Do” and P.S. I Love You,” both McCartney compositions.
• Lennon first wore his famed round eyeglasses during the shooting of the film “How I Won The War” where he had a cameo role. It was believed that while in-between shoots, he was writing “Strawberry Fields Forever.”
• The outspoken Lennon had his share of frustrations as a Beatle. He felt the group recorded his favorite song “Help” so fast, trying to be commercial. He was infuriated that his “I Am The Walrus” was relegated as a B side for Paul’s “Hello, Goodbye” which he described as ‘typical Paul.” After the group’s much ballyhooed break-up, he reasoned that they had to be dissolved because they’re “tired of being sidemen for Paul.”
• What do Beatle classics “Michelle,” “In My Life,” “Here, There, and Everywhere,” “And I Love Her” and “I Will” have in common? They’re all not included in the album “1″ which contains 27 Beatle songs that reached no. 1 on the charts during their heydays. “Strawberry Fields Forever,” another Beatle classic, was the first Beatle single which didn’t make it to the top spot on its release.
• John’s “Julia,” which appeared on the Beatles White Album and a song dedicated to his late mother Julia, and wife Yoko, was the only Beatle song wherein he played alone, without assistance from the rest of the group. Paul McCartney had done the same many times. In “Yesterday,” string instrumentalists helped him record what would be hailed as the most covered song of all time.
• Before writing “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” George Harrison randomly picked a book on a shelf, opened it and read the first word he saw. The word was ‘gently.’ Incidentally, legendary Eric Clapton played the crying ‘lead part’ of the song. He was the same man George was waiting for at a garden one morning when he started writing ‘Here Comes The Sun.”
• John Lennon considered his lyrics on “Across The Universe” as one of his bests, if not, his best. He described it as a “piece of poetry that strongly stood alone, without the help of its melody.” John had to wake up from his bed to finish the song after its melody kept ringing in his ears.
- John Lennon saw a UFO in 1974. He ran around shouting, “Here I am! Come and get me!” (He wrote about it on Double Fantasy. “There’s UFOs over New York, and I ain’t too surprised.”
- The Beatles performed ‘All You Need Is Love’ to a world wide audience of 400 million by means of a satellite link up.
- The Beatles won 14 Grammy awards
- George got drunk in Hamburg and threw up on the floor. None of them wanted to clean it up, so they left it there and watched it get more disgusting every day. It became an inside joke and they called it a “fiendish thingy.” Thus the George famous ‘fiendish thingy’ saying.
- Ringo wanted to be a hairdresser.
- Paul and Pete Best got arrested in Hamburg after sticking a condom to the wall and setting it on fire.
- The real source of the Beatles song Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. The chorus had always seemed a bit obscure: “Bang, bang, Maxwell’s silver hammer came down on her head. Clang, clang, Maxwell’s silver hammer made sure that she was dead.” But Paul McCartney had been born Catholic, and was inspired by the Vatican ritual where a cardinal bangs the late pope on the forehead five times with a silver hammer, while calling out his real name, to make sure that he is dead.
- The Beatles “1″ album, reached number one in 34 different countries. And sold 20 million copies.
- The tv series ‘The Beatles Anthology’ was watched by 420 million people, in 1995.
- The Beatles created MTV. They were the first group to create a music video to sell their music.
FACTS about the song Golden Slumbers:
Based on a 17th century poem by Thomas Dekker.
Paul McCartney wrote this on his step-sister’s piano. He saw the song “Golden Slumbers” in her songbook and, unable to read music, made up his own using most of the original lyrics.
John Lennon and George Harrison did not play on this. Before they broke up, The Beatles recorded a lot of their songs separately.
Part of a suite of songs at the end of Abbey Road. It was the last album The Beatles recorded, although it was released before Let It Be.
Recorded as one song with “Carry That Weight.”
Can You Answer?
1) Paul McCartney wrote “Come and Get It” for Badfinger. Name two songs that Paul brought in to Badfinger for evaluation and feedback purposes only!
ANSWER: According to an interview with Tom Evan’s called “Apple Daze”, the two songs that Paul brought in for Badfinger’s purusal was “Hey Jude” and “Maybe I’m Amazed.”
2) Did Capitol Records ever release a Beatle’s album simultaneously around the world?
ANSWER: The Beatles never had an lp released simultaneously around the world. The only group who ever able to do that was Beatle impersonators “Klaatu” with their album “Hope.” Capitol made arrangements to have Klaatu’s “Hope” album released simultaneously around the world and that’s something not even the Beatles were able to achieve as a status within their own musical legend.
3) During the making of George’s “33 1/3 ” album, George was suffering from jaundice. This illness caused delays in recording many of the tracks but George did manage to get out of bed one day to record a song. In this song, he dubbed the instrumental break as having a “mysterious yellow guitar sound.” Which song was George referring to? Was it “Woman Don’t You Cry For Me”; “True Love”; or “Learning How to Love You”?
ANSWER: On a C.B.C. 1976 radio interview, George Harrison’s “mysterious yellow guitar sound” appears on his song called “Learning How to Love You” on his “33 1/3″ album.
4) Did our noble Knight -Sir George Martin- ever go “streaking in the buff” in the recording studio before the Beatles?
ANSWER: Yes! He streaked naked in front of the Beatles to build up a party atmosphere for one of the numbers the Beatles were to record. Apparently the Beatles were doleful during a recording session one day so Sir George thought this was a neat way to cheer them up and to get them into a “party atmosphere.” ** Source of info for this: C.B.C. T.v interview 1998!! **
5) This one is a Travelling Wilbury question…If Bob Dylan was LUCKY WILBURY, Jeff Lynne as OTIS WILBURY, Roy Orbinson as LEFTY WILBURY, George Harrison as NELSON WILBURY and Tom Petty as CHARLIE T. JR. then name the “studio musician” who was dubbed as a “Sidebury Wilbury”.
ANSWER: Concerning who was the *other Travelling Wilbury regarding a session musician, it was Jim Horn who got dubbed as “Sidebury” Wilbury. ** Source: Pet Sounds Sessions Box Set interview with Jim Horn.
6) During Badfinger’s recording of “Rock of Ages”, who plays the piano on that number? Was it Nickey Hopkins? Al de Lory? Paul McCartney? or Billy Preston?
ANSWER: According to “Apple Daze” an interview with Tom Evans, it was Paul McCartney who played the piano on “Rock of All Ages.”
7) True or False: When the Beatles were touring, did one of the Beatles air flights between between shows have to make an emergency landing?
ANSWER: True! The Beatles did have to make an emergency plane landing between tours. This occurred when they were on their way to Japan. Apparently a snow storm appeared and the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in Alaska. The Beatles were grounded for 18 hours there before they headed off to Japan for the concert date.
8) Who was the first Beatle to be interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine?
ANSWER: Ringo Starr and George Harrison were the first Beatles to be interviewed by Rolling Stone Magazine. Their interviews appeared on February 10, 1968 in issue number 5.
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Songfacts:
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
Written by John Lennon, it was one of his favorites. He especially liked the lyrics.
The refrain “Jai Guru Deva Um” is a mantra intended to lull the mind into a higher consciousness. The words are in Sanskrit, and they mean “I give thanks to Guru Dev,” who was the teacher of The Maharishi. The “Um” at the end is the drawn out “oooohm” used in meditation to relate to the natural vibration of the universe.
This first appeared on No One’s Gonna Change Our World, a charity album for the World Wildlife Fund (They’re the ones who sued the World Wrestling Federation and made them stop using “WWF”). Bird noises were dubbed in to this version to create a nature theme.
For a while, this was not going to be part of Let It Be. The album was going to be called “Get Back” and was supposed to be recorded in front of a live audience for a TV special, with film footage of The Beatles practicing the songs in the studio used for a companion special. When things didn’t go well, they decided to scrap the TV project but use the footage for their last movie, which became Let It Be. The tapes of them practicing in the studio would be worked into an album to go with the film. The first version of the album did not include this, but when the movie was edited, it included a scene where The Beatles play this, so it was added to the album.
While the Let It Be movie and album were being sorted out, The Beatles recorded their last album, Abbey Road, and then broke up. George Harrison and John Lennon asked Phil Spector to take the tapes from the Let It Be project and produce the album from them. Spector took out the bird sounds, slowed the tape down, and added an orchestra and choir. The result was a very lush arrangement using his “Wall Of Sound” technique.
This was later recorded by David Bowie with Lennon on guitar. It appears on Bowie’s 1975 album Young Americans.
This was originally going to be the B-side to “Lady Madonna,” but “The Inner Light” was chosen instead. (thanks, Adrian – Wilmington, DE) Fiona Apple covered this in 1999.
At the 2001 John Lennon tribute special at Madison Square Garden, Sean Lennon performed this with Moby and Rufus Wainwright. Moby wore one of John’s shirts that Sean gave him.
This was a huge influence on Liam Gallagher from Oasis. It turned him on to The Beatles and inspired him to write songs.
At the 2005 Grammy awards, Brian Wilson, Alicia Keys, Tim McGraw, Bono, Stevie Wonder, Norah Jones and members of Velvet Revolver played this as a tribute to tsunami victims in Asia. The single was sold to raise money for the victims.
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ABBEY ROAD
On the 26th September, 1969, The Beatles released their final album Abbey Road (working title: Everest). It was the last album to be recorded by The Beatles and was named after the North London road where EMI’s recording studios were located. Only after the album’s success did EMI rename the studios ‘Abbey Road Studios’. The album spent 11 weeks at number one and initially sold over 5,000,000 copies earning a Grammy award for ‘ Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording’. It was the Beatles first ‘stereo’ release.
To date, The Beatles, have remained the world’s most successful pop group; often credited with supplying the world with ‘the soundtrack of our lives’ throughout the sixties in particular, and so their final album deserves perhaps a more detailed close-up review than I would normally give a ‘classic album’.
Recorded in the summer of 1969, Abbey Road features some of the finest songwriting, musicianship, engineering, and production ever to have been contained and subsequently immortalized within the four walls of the world’s most famous recording studios, in fact, to this day, visitors from all over the world cite Abbey Road as one of the most popular tourist attractions where people are photographed walking across the famous ‘zebra’ crossing, and where graffiti has adorned the studio walls since the Beatles were in residence. I’m fortunate enough to have visited Abbey Road Studios on a number of occasions and yes, I have the photographs of my little walk across the zebra crossing too!
It would appear that The Beatles somehow knew that this would be their last album together (The Beatles last studio appearance where all four were in the studio together was 20th August 1969), and conversations with Beatles producer ‘Sir’ George Martin have confirmed that, in his eyes, it was one of the reasons why they gave their very best both musically and performance wise.
The album opens with Lennon’s Come Together; a mid tempo and lyrically rich and colorful rock song that features some superb bass playing from McCartney. The lyrics were still considered to be a little risque for the time but John was no stranger to pushing limits in 1969 and beyond in both his private/public life as well as in his songwriting. The track is followed by George Harrison’s Something, which I consider to be one of the most sincere and most beautiful love songs ever written. The guitar phrases and solo, coupled again with McCartney’s highly skilled, melodic and sweeping bass playing, embrace and captivate the listener into a sense of timelessness, and with George’s lyrics and vocals, it’s hardly surprising that the song has remained one of the best written and most popular tracks on the album. McCartney’s Maxwell’s Silver Hammer was typically going to be the song that made John cringe with it’s ‘When I’m Sixty Four’ lyrical approach and it’s North of England working class humour. In fact, although Lennon is co-credited with the writing of the song, he did not appear on the recording. Oh Darling! features one of McCartney’s best vocal performances on the album, and certainly one of his best ‘rock-based’ tracks with the Beatles. Musically, the song is outstanding and features excellent playing with John on piano and vocals, and George contributing Guitar, Moog, and backing vocals, but Paul’s richly decorated bass lines and hard edged vocals are indeed something to behold!
Octopus’s Garden is Ringo’s epitaph on the album but no other drummer in the world could have contributed their skill and expertise in quite the same way as Ringo had for the Abbey Road sessions. The Beatles were masters of audience capture, and there was little doubt that all age groups could be catered for even when it included a ‘children’s song’ like ‘Yellow Submarine’ or Octopus’ Garden. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) is John’s rock and roll sentiment featuring 7 minutes of superb vocals and guitar inventiveness as well as John’s moog and organ contributions. It was a song that would inspire much musical development in band’s such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, ELO and many many others that have become household names since.
The creative musical genius shared between The Beatles and their engineering and production teams saw to it that the best song on the planet to follow ‘I Want You’ would be George Harrison’s second excellent contribution; ‘Here Comes The Sun’. Again, John Lennon did not appear for the sessions and so much of the musical inventiveness here is essentially the product of both Paul and George working on a masterpiece. Lyrically, the song is exceptional in it’s bright and uplifting, positive and endearing construction. The vocals and guitar playing are exceptional too, and interestingly, George essentially sets the mood for the second side of the album. George’s classic is followed by the very beautiful and astonishingly rich harmony driven ‘Because’, a song that defined what was possible in the minds of multitracked vocal experts in 1969. Although Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys had long been experimenting with four part harmony throughout their career, they had never quite managed to captivate in quite the same way as The Beatles and George Martin (as producer) did with this part metaphysical, part new age anthem for the sixties and beyond.
You Never Give Me Your Money begins the first of two McCartney inspired medleys on the album, where ‘seguing’ apparently seamless tracks together would be one of the most influential and inspiring aspects of the entire production. Lennon later complained that ‘bits and pieces’ of mostly McCartney’s unfinished tracks were banded together to produce a McCartney dominated album. Nevertheless, the results are absolutely incredible for the time. You Never Give Me Your Money kind of reminds us of how McCartney viewed the Beatles fractured business machine as well as their fractured personal relationships. It’s a sad and somewhat introspective song that is dealt a crushing blow by the more Lennon dominated Sun King and follow ups Mean Mr Mustard and Polythene Pam with their Lennon typified wit and cynicism laced with abstract humour and superb arrangements. McCartney’s She Came In Through The Bathroom Window includes exceptional musicianship fused with his exceptional melodic sequencing, something he would go on to develop further in his later albums but most notably in Ram, Band On The Run, and Venus and Mars. Golden Slumbers begins the second medley and is a highly accomplished rewrite of the traditional lullaby with George Martin’s orchestral arrangements and McCartney’s rich and expressive vocal style. Carry That Weight is the bridge between where Golden Slumbers tucks you in and where the magnificent The End is the dream you reflect upon for the rest of your life. The End features those spectacularly famous guitar duals and Ringo’s innovative drum solo that leaves audio imprints in the memory forever. The lyrical genius in ‘and in the end, the love you make is equal to the love you take!’ has now become The Beatles own epitaph to the magic and creative innovation that came from one of the finest bands ever to have emerged from one of the finest and most productive recording studios in the world.. Abbey Road.
Photography Facts:
Abbey Road Cover Photo – The Abbey Road cover shoot was scheduled for 10am on Friday 8th August 1969. Iain Macmillan took a total six pictures over a period of only ten minutes while the police held the traffic back.
Tittenhurst Park – John and Yoko’s home in Ascot, England, was the setting on Friday, August 22, 1969, for the photo session that would be the last to feature all four Beatles together.
The American photographer Ethan Russell was accompanied by Monte Fresco of The Daily Mail for the main shots, although additional pictures were taken by Beatle friend and road manager Mal Evans. The event was also filmed and included in The Beatles Anthology documentary as supporting footage for George Harrison’s ‘Something’.
Also present on the day, were a heavily pregnant Linda McCartney (Mary was born six days later). Yoko also attended the session along with Beatles press officer Derek Taylor.
The photo session began in front of the main house, the Beatles standing among the pillars supporting the terrace canopy. They then walked down the main garden path, past the Diana statue, to a paddock of high grass (an old cricket pitch), where George, Paul, John, and Ringo stood in a row, being photographed and filmed from all sides.
Selected photographs from the photo sessions were issued as promotion material by Apple. Three shots (by Ethan Russell) formed the front and back covers of the Capitol compilation album Hey Jude, issued in the US in February 1970. The shots included the Beatles sitting, and then standing, in front of two arched porches in the southern wall of four terraced cottages and peering from the first floor windows above.
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Eleanor Rigby
Paul McCartney got “Rigby” from the name of a store and “Eleanor” from actress Eleanor Bron. He liked the name “Eleanor Rigby” because it sounded natural. McCartney wasn’t sure what this song was going to be about until he came up with the line, “Picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been.” That’s when he came up with the story an old, lonely woman.
“Father Mackenzie” was originally “Father McCartney.” Paul decided he didn’t want to freak out his dad and picked a name out of the phone book instead. A string section of 4 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos were used in recording. Paul may have been inspired by the classic composer Vivaldi. The Beatles didn’t play any of the instruments on this. All the music came from the string players, who were hired as session musicians. The last verse was written in the studio.
There is a gravestone for an Eleanor Rigby in St. Peter’s Churchyard in Wooton, England. (This is where The Quarrymen played and where John and Paul first met).
This was originally written as “Miss Daisy Hawkins.”
The lyrics were brainstormed among The Beatles. In later years, Lennon and McCartney gave different accounts of who contributed more of the words to this. Microphones were placed very close to the instruments to create and unusual sound. Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin both had hits with cover versions of this. Because of the string section, this was difficult to play live, which The Beatles never did. On his 2002 Back In The US tour, Paul McCartney played this without the strings. Keyboards were used to compensate.
This song was not written in a normal chord, it is in the dorian mode – the scale you get when you play one octave up from the second note of a major scale. This is usually found in old songs such as “Scarborough Fair.” (thanks, Rachel – Bath, England)
Vanilla Fudge covered this in a slowed-down, emotional style. They’ve done this with many songs, including hits by ‘N Sync, and The Backstreet Boys. Their version of “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” was a #6 US hit in 1968. Says Fudge drummer Carmine Appice: “Most of the songs we did, we tried to take out of the realm they were in and try to put them where they were supposed to be in our eyes. ‘Eleanor Rigby’ was always a great song by The Beatles. It was done with the orchestra, but the way we did it, we put it into an eerie graveyard setting and made it spooky, the way the lyrics read. Songs like Ticket To Ride, that’s a hurtin’ song, so we slowed it down so it wouldn’t be so happy. We would look at lyrics and the lyrics would dictate if it was feasible to do something with it or not.” (Thanks to Carmine for speaking with us about this song. His website is www.carmineappice.net.)
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TICKET TO RIDE
According to A Hard Day’s Write by Steve Turner, many Americans concluded the ‘ticket’ was from British Railways, and ‘ride’ was the town of ‘Ryde’ on the Isle of Wight. McCartney confessed to his biographer (Barry Miles) that they were partly right. Paul had a cousin who ran a bar in Ryde and he and John had visited them there. Paul later mentioned that although the song was primarily about a girl riding out of the life of the narrator, they were conscious of the potential for a double meaning.
Don Short, who traveled with the Beatles in the ’60s, recalled that John coined the phrase “Ticket to Ride” for another meaning – The girls who worked the streets in Hamburg had to have a clean bill of health and the authorities would give them a card saying they were clean. Don later said that although he specifically recalls John telling him that, John could of been joking – you had to be careful with him like that.
John Lennon: “That was one of the earliest heavy-metal records made.” The brief, but recognizable guitar solo was played by Paul McCartney, who was The Beatles bass player. This was used in the Beatles movie Help! in the scene where The Beatles ski… poorly. This was the first Beatles song that was over 3 minutes long.
The Beatles played this on an episode of Ed Sullivan Show that aired September 12, 1965. It was the last Ed Sullivan show broadcast in black and white. The Beatles were in America for their big Shea stadium concert. The Carpenters covered this in 1969. It was their first single and also the name of their debut album.
AWESOME Beatles trivia, all courtesy of the website: beatlesnumber9.com
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5 January 1961 Litherland England Town Hall
6 January 1961 Bootle St John’s Hall
7 January 1961 Aintree Aintree Institute
13 January 1961
14 January 1961
15 January 1961 Liverpool The Casbah Coffee Club
18 January 1961 Aintree Aintree Institute
19 January 1961 Crosby Alexandra Hall
20 January 1961 Seaforth Lathom Hall
21 January 1961
25 January 1961 Huyton Hambleton Hall
26 January 1961 Litherland Town Hall
27 January 1961 Aintree Aintree Institute
28 January 1961 Seaforth Lathom Hall
29 January 1961 Liverpool The Casbah Coffee Club
30 January 1961 Seaforth Lathom Hall
1 February 1961 Huyton Hambleton Hall
2 February 1961 Litherland Town Hall
3 February 1961 Bootle St John’s Hall
4 February 1961 Seaforth Lathom Hall
5 February 1961 Walton Blair Hall
6 February 1961 Seaforth Lathom Hall
7 February 1961 Liverpool Merseyside Civil Service Club
8 February 1961 Aintree Aintree Institute
9 February 1961 Liverpool The Cavern Club
1 November 1961
3 November 1961
4 November 1961
7 November 1961 Merseyside Civil Service Club
The Cavern Club
8 November 1961
9 November 1961
10 November 1961 Town Hall
Wallasey Tower Ballroom
Liverpool Village Hall
11 November 1961 Aintree Aintree Institute
12 November 1961 Liverpool Hambleton Hall
13 November 1961 The Cavern Club
14 November 1961 Merseyside Civil Service Club
The Cavern Club
15 November 1961
17 November 1961 Village Hall
The Cavern Club
18 November 1961
19 November 1961 The Casbah Coffee Club
21 November 1961 Merseyside Civil Service Club
The Cavern Club
22 November 1961
23 November 1961
24 November 1961 The Casbah Coffee Club
Wallasey Tower Ballroom
26 November 1961 Liverpool Hambleton Hall
27 November 1961 The Cavern Club
28 November 1961 Merseyside Civil Service Club
29 November 1961 The Cavern Club
1 December 1961 Wallasey Tower Ballroom
Liverpool The Cavern Club
2 December 1961
3 December 1961 The Casbah Coffee Club
5 December 1961 The Cavern Club
6 December 1961
8 December 1961
Wallasey Tower Ballroom
9 December 1961 Aldershot Palais Ballroom
London The Gardenia Club
10 December 1961 Liverpool Hambleton Hall
11 December 1961 The Cavern Club
13 December 1961
15 December 1961 Wallasey Tower Ballroom
Liverpool The Cavern Club
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23 December 1961
26 December 1961 Wallasey Tower Ballroom
27 December 1961 Liverpool The Cavern Club
29 December 1961
30 December 1961
1962
5 February 1962 Liverpool England The Cavern Club
31 March 1962 Stroud Subscription Rooms[1]
13 April 1962 Hamburg Germany Star-Club
31 May 1962
14 July 1962 Rhyl Wales Regent Dansette Ballroom
20 July 1962 Warrington England Bell Hall
18 August 1962 Port Sunlight Hulme Hall
Ringo’s first official performance as a Beatle following the sacking of Pete Best
31 August 1962 Lydney Lydney Town Hall[2]
28 September 1962 Liverpool The Royal Iris (Cruise)
9 December 1962 Liverpool The Cavern Club
31 December 1962 Hamburg Germany Star-Club
1963
Winter 1963 Scotland Tour
3 January 1963 Elgin Scotland Two Red Shoes
4 January 1963 Dingwall Town Hall
5 January 1963 Bridge of Allan Museum Hall
6 January 1963 Aberdeen Beach Ballroom
Winter 1963 UK Tour
10 January 1963 Liverpool England Grafton Rooms
11 January 1963 The Cavern Club
Old Hill Plaza Ballroom
12 January 1963 Chatham Invicta Ballroom
14 January 1963 Wirral Civic Hall
17 January 1963 Liverpool The Cavern Club
Birkenhead Majestic Ballroom
18 January 1963 Morecambe Floral Hall
19 January 1963 Whitchurch Town Hall
20 January 1963 Liverpool The Cavern Club
23 January 1963
24 January 1963 Flintshire Assembly Hall
25 January 1963 Darwen Co-Operative Hall
26 January 1963 Macclesfield El Rio Club
Stoke-on-Trent King’s Hall
27 January 1963 Manchester Three Coins Club
28 January 1963 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Majestic Ballroom
30 January 1963 Liverpool The Cavern Club
1 February 1963 Tamworth Assembly Rooms
Sutton Coldfield Maney Hall
Winter 1963 Helen Shapiro Tour Part 1[3]
Winter 1963 UK Tour[3]
12 February 1963 Oldham England Astoria Ballroom
13 February 1963 Hull Majestic Ballroom
14 February 1963 Liverpool Locarno Ballroom
15 February 1963 Birmingham Ritz
16 February 1963 Oxford Carfax Assembly
18 February 1963 Widnes Queen’s Hall
19 February 1963 Liverpool The Cavern Club
20 February 1963 Doncaster Swimming Baths
21 February 1963 Birkenhead Majestic Ballroom
22 February 1963 Manchester Oasis Club
Winter 1963 Helen Shapiro Tour Part 2[3]
Winter 1963 UK Tour
4 March 1963 St. Helens England Plaza Ballroom
7 March 1963 Nottingham Elizabethan Ballroom
8 March 1963 Harrogate Royal Hall
Spring 1963 Tommy Roe / Chris Montez Tour
9 March 1963 East Ham England Granada
10 March 1963 Birmingham Hippodrome
12 March 1963 Bedford Granada
13 March 1963 York Rialto
14 March 1963 Wolverhampton Gaumont
15 March 1963 Bristol Colston Hall
16 March 1963 Sheffield Sheffield City Hall
17 March 1963 Peterborough Embassy
18 March 1963 Gloucester Regal
19 March 1963 Cambridge Regal
20 March 1963 Romford ABC Cinemas
21 March 1963 Croydon ABC Cinemas
22 March 1963 Doncaster ABC Cinemas
23 March 1963 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Newcastle City Hall
24 March 1963 Liverpool Empire
26 March 1963 Mansfield Granada
27 March 1963 Northampton ABC Cinemas
28 March 1963 Exeter ABC Cinemas
29 March 1963 Lewisham Odeon
30 March 1963 Portsmouth Guildhall
31 March 1963 Leicester De Montfort Hall
Spring 1963 UK Tour
2 April 1963 Sheffield United Kingdom Sheffield
4 April 1963 Stowe Roxburgh Hall
5 April 1963 London Swimming Baths
6 April 1963 Buxton Pavilion Gardens
7 April 1963 Portsmouth The Ocean View Hotel
9 April 1963 London Gaumont State Cinema
10 April 1963 Birkenhead Majestic Ballroom
11 April 1963 Middleton Co-Operative Hall
12 April 1963 Liverpool The Cavern Club
15 April 1963 Tenbury Wells Riverside Dancing Club
17 April 1963 Luton Majestic Ballroom
18 April 1963 London Royal Albert Hall
19 April 1963 Stoke-on-Trent King’s Hall
20 April 1963 Frodsham, Cheshire Mersey View Pleasure Grounds
21 April 1963 London Empire Pool
Pigalle Club
23 April 1963 Southport Floral Hall
24 April 1963 London Majestic Ballroom
25 April 1963 Croydon Fairfield Halls
26 April 1963 Shrewsbury Shrewsbury Music Hall
27 April 1963 Northwich Memorial Hall
11 May 1963 Nelson Imperial Ballroom
14 May 1963 Sunderland Rink Ballroom
15 May 1963 Chester Royalty Theatre
17 May 1963 Norwich Grosvenor Rooms
Spring 1963 Roy Orbison / The Beatles Tour
18 May 1963 Slough England Adelphi
19 May 1963 Hanley Gaumont
20 May 1963 Southampton Gaumont
22 May 1963 Ipswich Gaumont
23 May 1963 Nottingham Odeon
24 May 1963 Walthamstow Granada
25 May 1963 Sheffield Sheffield City Hall
26 May 1963 Liverpool Empire
27 May 1963 Cardiff Wales Capitol Centre
28 May 1963 Worcester England Gaumont
29 May 1963 York Rialto
30 May 1963 Manchester Odeon
31 May 1963 Southend-on-Sea Odeon
1 June 1963 Tooting Granada
2 June 1963 Brighton Brighton Hippodrome
3 June 1963 Woolwich Granada
4 June 1963 Birmingham Birmingham Town Hall
5 June 1963 Leeds Odeon
7 June 1963 Glasgow Scotland Odeon
8 June 1963 Newcastle-upon-Tyne England Newcastle City Hall
9 June 1963 Blackburn King George’s Hall
Summer 1963 UK Tour
10 June 1963 Bath England Pavilion
12 June 1963 Liverpool Grafton Rooms
13 June 1963 Cheshire Palace Theatre Club
Manchester Southern Sporting Club
14 June 1963 New Brighton Tower Ballroom
15 June 1963 Salisbury City Hall
16 June 1963 Romford Odeon Cinema
21 June 1963 Guildford Odeon Cinema
22 June 1963 Abergavenny Wales Town Hall
25 June 1963 Middlesbrough England Astoria Ballroom
26 June 1963 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Majestic Ballroom
28 June 1963 Leeds Queen’s Hall
30 June 1963 Great Yarmouth ABC Cinema
5 July 1963 Old Hill Plaza Ballroom
6 July 1963 Northwich Memorial Hall
7 July 1963 Blackpool ABC Theatre
8 July 1963 Margate Winter Gardens
9 July 1963
10 July 1963
11 July 1963
12 July 1963
13 July 1963
14 July 1963 Blackpool ABC Theatre
19 July 1963 Rhyl Ritz Ballroom
20 July 1963
21 July 1963 Blackpool Queen’s Theatre
22 July 1963 Weston-super-Mare Odeon Theatre
23 July 1963
24 July 1963
25 July 1963
26 July 1963
27 July 1963
28 July 1963 Great Yarmouth ABC Cinema
31 July 1963 Nelson Imperial Ballroom
2 August 1963 Liverpool Grafton Rooms
3 August 1963 The Cavern Club
4 August 1963 Blackpool Queen’s Theatre
5 August 1963 Urmston Abbotsfield Park
6 August 1963 Jersey Channel Islands The Springfield Ballroom
7 August 1963
8 August 1963 Guernsey Candie Gardens
9 August 1963 Jersey The Springfield Ballroom
10 August 1963
11 August 1963 Blackpool England ABC Theatre
12 August 1963 Llandudno Wales Odeon Cinema
13 August 1963
14 August 1963
15 August 1963
16 August 1963
17 August 1963
18 August 1963 Torquay England Princess Theatre
19 August 1963 Bournemouth Gaumont
20 August 1963
21 August 1963
22 August 1963
23 August 1963
24 August 1963
25 August 1963 Blackpool ABC Theatre
26 August 1963 Southport Odeon Cinema
27 August 1963
28 August 1963
29 August 1963
30 August 1963
31 August 1963
4 September 1963 Worcester Gaumont
5 September 1963 Taunton Gaumont
6 September 1963 Luton Odeon Cinema
7 September 1963 Croydon Fairfield Hall
8 September 1963 Blackpool ABC Theatre
13 September 1963 Preston Public Hall
14 September 1963 Northwich Memorial Hall
15 September 1963 London Royal Albert Hall
Autumn 1963 Scotland Mini-Tour
5 October 1963 Glasgow Scotland Odeon
6 October 1963 Kirkcaldy Carlton
7 October 1963 Dundee Caird Hall
Autumn 1963 UK Tour
11 October 1963 Trentham England Trentham Gardens
13 October 1963 London London Palladium
15 October 1963 Southport Floral Hall
19 October 1963 Buxton Pavilion Gardens Ballroom
Autumn 1963 Sweden Tour
25 October 1963 Karlstad Sweden Sundsta-aulan
26 October 1963 Stockholm Kungliga tennishallen
27 October 1963 Gothenburg Cirkus
28 October 1963 Borås Boråshallen
29 October 1963 Eskilstuna Sporthallen
Autumn 1963 UK Tour continued
1 November 1963 Cheltenham England Odeon
2 November 1963 Sheffield Sheffield City Hall
3 November 1963 Leeds Odeon
4 November 1963 London Prince of Wales Theatre
5 November 1963 Slough Adelphi
6 November 1963 Northampton ABC Cinemas – Northampton
7 November 1963 Dublin Ireland Adelphi
8 November 1963 Belfast Northern Ireland Ritz
9 November 1963 East Ham England Granada
10 November 1963 Birmingham Hippodrome
13 November 1963 Plymouth ABC Cinemas
14 November 1963 Exeter ABC Cinemas
15 November 1963 Bristol Colston Hall
16 November 1963 Bournemouth Bournemouth Winter Gardens
17 November 1963 Coventry Coventry Theatre
19 November 1963 Wolverhampton Gaumont
20 November 1963 Manchester Manchester Apollo
21 November 1963 Carlisle ABC Cinemas
22 November 1963 Stockton-on-Tees Globe
23 November 1963 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Newcastle City Hall
24 November 1963 Hull ABC Cinemas
26 November 1963 Cambridge Regal
27 November 1963 York Rialto
28 November 1963 Lincoln ABC Cinemas
29 November 1963 Huddersfield ABC Cinemas
30 November 1963 Sunderland Empire
1 December 1963 Leicester De Montfort Hall
2 November 1963 London Grosvenor House Hotel
3 November 1963 Portsmouth Guildhall
7 December 1963 Liverpool Empire Theatre
Odeon
8 December 1963 Lewisham Odeon
9 December 1963 Southend-on-Sea Odeon
10 December 1963 Doncaster Gaumont
11 December 1963 Scarborough Futurist Theatre
12 December 1963 Nottingham Odeon
13 December 1963 Southampton Gaumont
14 December 1963 London Wimbledon Palais
The Beatles 1963 Christmas Shows
21 December 1963 Bradford England Gaumont
22 December 1963 Liverpool Empire Theatre
24 December 1963 London Astoria Cinema
26 December 1963 Astoria Cinema
27 December 1963
28 December 1963
30 December 1963
31 December 1963
1964
The Beatles 1963 Christmas Shows (Continued)
1 January 1964 London England Astoria Cinema
2 January 1964
3 January 1964
4 January 1964
5 January 1964
6 January 1964
7 January 1964
8 January 1964
9 January 1964
10 January 1964
Winter 1964 London Show
11 January 1964 London England Palladium
Winter 1964 France Shows
15 January 1964 Versailles France Cinema Cyrano
16 January 1964 Paris Olympia Theatre
17 January 1964
18 January 1964
19 January 1964
20 January 1964
21 January 1964
22 January 1964
23 January 1964
24 January 1964
25 January 1964
26 January 1964
27 January 1964
28 January 1964
29 January 1964
30 January 1964
31 January 1964
1 February 1964
2 February 1964
3 February 1964
4 February 1964
Winter 1964 USA Tour
9 February 1964 New York City, New York United States The Ed Sullivan Show
11 February 1964 Washington, D.C. Washington Coliseum
12 February 1964 New York City, New York Carnegie Hall
16 February 1964 Miami, Florida The Ed Sullivan Show
23 February 1964 New York City, New York The Ed Sullivan Show
Spring 1964 UK Tour
19 April 1964 London England Around The Beatles TV special, IBC Studios
26 April 1964 Empire Pool
29 April 1964 Edinburgh Scotland ABC Cinemas
30 April 1964 Glasgow Odeon Cinemas
31 May 1964 London England Prince of Wales Theatre
Spring / Summer 1964 World Tour
Summer 1964 UK & Sweden Tour
Summer 1964 (First) USA & Canada Tour
19 August 1964 Daly City, California United States Cow Palace
20 August 1964 Las Vegas, Nevada Convention Hall
21 August 1964 Seattle, Washington Seattle Coliseum
22 August 1964 Vancouver, British Columbia Canada Empire Stadium
23 August 1964 Los Angeles, California United States Hollywood Bowl
26 August 1964 Morrison, Colorado Red Rocks Amphitheatre
27 August 1964 Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati Gardens
28 August 1964 New York City, New York Forest Hills
29 August 1964
30 August 1964 Atlantic City, New Jersey Convention Hall
2 September 1964 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Convention Hall
3 September 1964 Indianapolis, Indiana Indiana State Fair Coliseum
4 September 1964 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Milwaukee Arena
5 September 1964 Chicago, Illinois International Amphitheatre
6 September 1964 Detroit, Michigan Olympia Stadium
7 September 1964 Toronto, Ontario Canada Maple Leaf Gardens
8 September 1964 Montreal, Quebec Montreal Forum
11 September 1964 Jacksonville, Florida United States Gator Bowl Stadium
12 September 1964 Boston, Massachusetts Boston Garden
13 September 1964 Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore Civic Center
14 September 1964 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Civic Arena
15 September 1964 Cleveland, Ohio Public Auditorium
16 September 1964 New Orleans, Louisiana City Park Stadium
17 September 1964 Kansas City, Missouri Municipal Stadium
18 September 1964 Dallas, Texas Memorial Auditorium
20 September 1964 New York City, New York Paramount Theater
1964 Autumn UK Tour
9 October 1964 Bradford England Gaumont
10 October 1964 Leicester De Montfort Hall
11 October 1964 Birmingham Odeon
13 October 1964 Wigan ABC Cinemas
14 October 1964 Manchester ABC Cinemas
15 October 1964 Stockton-on-Tees Globe
16 October 1964 Hull ABC Cinemas
19 October 1964 Edinburgh Scotland ABC Cinemas
20 October 1964 Dundee Caird Hall
21 October 1964 Glasgow Odeon
22 October 1964 Leeds England Odeon
23 October 1964 Kilburn Gaumont State Cinema
24 October 1964 Walthamstow Granada
25 October 1964 Brighton Hippodrome
28 October 1964 Exeter ABC Cinemas
29 October 1964 Plymouth ABC Cinemas
30 October 1964 Bournemouth Gaumont
31 October 1964 Ipswich Gaumont
1 November 1964 Finsbury Park Astoria
2 November 1964 Belfast Northern Ireland King’s Hall
4 November 1964 Luton England Ritz
5 November 1964 Nottingham Odeon
6 November 1964 Southampton Gaumont
7 November 1964 Cardiff Wales Capitol Centre
8 November 1964 Liverpool England Liverpool Empire Theatre
9 November 1964 Sheffield City Hall
10 November 1964 Bristol Colston Hall
The Beatles 1964 Christmas Shows
24 December 1964 London England Odeon Cinemas
25 December 1964
26 December 1964
28 December 1964
29 December 1964
30 December 1964
31 December 1964
1965
The Beatles 1964 Christmas Shows (Continued)
1 January 1965 London England Odeon Cinemas
2 January 1965
4 January 1965
5 January 1965
6 January 1965
7 January 1965
8 January 1965
9 January 1965
11 January 1965
12 January 1965
13 January 1965
14 January 1965
15 January 1965
16 January 1965
Spring 1965 Wembley Show
11 April 1965 London England Empire Pool
Summer 1965 Europe Tour
Summer 1965 United Kingdom
1 August 1965 Blackpool England ABC Theatre
Summer 1965 USA & Canada Tour
Autumn 1965 UK Tour
3 December 1965 Glasgow Scotland Odeon
4 December 1965 Newcastle England Newcastle City Hall
5 December 1965 Liverpool Liverpool Empire Theatre
7 December 1965 Manchester Manchester Apollo
8 December 1965 Sheffield Sheffield City Hall
9 December 1965 Birmingham Odeon
10 December 1965 London Hammersmith Odeon
11 December 1965 Finsbury Park Astoria
12 December 1965 Cardiff Wales Capitol Centre
1966
Spring 1966 Wembley Show
1 May 1966 London England Empire Pool
Summer 1966 Germany Mini-Tour
24 June 1966 Munich Germany Circus Krone Building
25 June 1966 Essen Grugahalle
26 June 1966 Hamburg Ernst Merck Halle
Summer 1966 Asia Mini-Tour
30 June 1966 Tokyo Japan Nippon Budokan
1 July 1966
2 July 1966
4 July 1966 Manila Philippines Rizal Memorial Football Stadium
Summer 1966 USA & Canada Tour
12 August 1966 Chicago, Illinois United States International Amphitheatre
13 August 1966 Detroit, Michigan Olympia Stadium
14 August 1966 Cleveland, Ohio Municipal Stadium
15 August 1966 Washington, D.C. D.C. Stadium
16 August 1966 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia Stadium
17 August 1966 Toronto, Ontario Canada Maple Leaf Gardens
18 August 1966 Boston, Massachusetts United States Suffolk Downs
19 August 1966 Memphis, Tennessee Mid-South Coliseum
21 August 1966 Cincinnati, Ohio Crosley Field
22 August 1966 St. Louis, Missouri Busch Stadium
23 August 1966 New York City, New York Shea Stadium
25 August 1966 Seattle, Washington Seattle Coliseum
28 August 1966 Los Angeles, California Dodger Stadium
29 August 1966 San Francisco, California Candlestick Park
1969
30 January 1969 London England Apple Records headquarters rooftop
(with keyboardist Billy Preston). This was the Beatles’ last live performance together.
