March 16
1963 (Mar 16) - Live Appearance on BBC's 'Saturday Club' |
1964 (Mar 16) - Beatles Set Record For Advance Sales |
The Beatles set a new record for advance sales in the US with 2,100,000 copies of their latest single ‘Can’t Buy Me Love.’ When pressed by American journalists in 1966 to reveal the song’s ‘true’ meaning, Paul McCartney stated ‘I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ is about a prostitute, I draw the line’. |
1969 (Mar 16) - Paul and Linda Fly to America |
 Married just four days, Paul and Linda fly to America for a three week visit.
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1972 (Mar 16) - John Lennon Appeals To Immigration |
John Lennon lodged an appeal with the US immigration office in New York, after he was served with deportation orders arising from his 1968 cannabis possession conviction. |
1979 (Mar 16) - CBS Airs 'Wings Over the World' |
March 17
1944 (Mar 17) - Pattie Boyd Born |
 Pattie Boyd is born in Taunton, Somerset, England. She would later marry George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Clapton’s song ‘Layla’ was inspired by her.
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1967 (Mar 17) - Finishing Touches on 'She's Leaving Home' |
1979 (Mar 17) - Bee Gees Tie Beatles #1 Mark |
 The Bee Gees went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their fifteenth studio album release Spirits Having Flown, the group’s first album after their collaboration on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. The album’s first three tracks were released as singles and all reached No.1 in the US, giving the Bee Gees an unbroken run of six US chart-toppers and tying a record set by The Beatles. |
2008 (Mar 17) - Heather Mills Awarded $47 Million in Divorce |
 Heather Mills is awarded about $47 million in her divorce from Paul McCartney. It is substantially more than the $32 million originally offered by Paul. Throughout the ordeal, Mills is vilified in the British press as being a ‘gold digger’ and ‘opportunistic’.
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2013 (Mar 17) - John & George Honored at Apple Boutique Site |
John Lennon and George Harrison were honoured with a blue plaque at the site of the former Apple Boutique in a ceremony in London held at at 94 Baker Street. The new plaque reads “John Lennon, M.B.E., 1940-1980, and George Harrison, M.B.E., 1943-2001, worked here.” |
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