This Day in Beatle History - The Beatle Zone

February 15

1964 (Feb 15) - 'Meet The Beatles' Becomes Band's First US #1

The Beatles scored their first US No.1 album with Meet The Beatles! The album stayed at No.1 for eleven weeks. The album sold over four million copies in the US by December 31, 1964.

1965 (Feb 15) - 'Eight Days A Week' and 'I Don't Want To Spoil The Party' Released

‘Eight Days A Week’ and ‘I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party’ are released.

1965 (Feb 15) - John Passes His Driving Test

John Lennon becomes a licensed driver.

1966 (Feb 18) - Brian Wilson Finishes 'Good Vibrations'

Beach Boy Brian Wilson finished recording the future classic song ‘Good Vibrations’, which went on to become the band’s third US number-one hit. As a child, his mother told him that dogs could pick up “vibrations” from people, so that the dog would bark at “bad vibrations” Wilson turned this into the general idea for the song.

1968 (Feb 15) - Part of the Band Heads to India

John and Cynthia Lennon, along with George and Patti Harrison and Cynthia’s sister Jenny, flew to India to study meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Paul and Ringo joined them a few days later, but Starr would become bored and leave on March 1st, comparing the experience to be like a ‘Butlins holiday camp.’ Much of the Beatles’ The White Album was written during their stay.

1974 (Feb 15) - 'Jet/Let Me Roll It' Released

>’Jet’ and B side ‘Let Me Roll It’ are releaed from Wings album ‘Band On The Run’.

2001 (Feb 15) - George Harrison on MSN Live

George Harrison enters the cyber age with an online chat on MSN Live.

2008 (Feb 15) - Former Beatles' Flat Goes Up For Auction

A flat once rented by The Beatles in London went up for sale for £1.75m. The band shared the three-bedroom top floor property in Green Street, Mayfair in the autumn of 1963. A publicity photo of the Fab Four peering over a banister, used as the cover for the December 1963 edition of The Beatles Book, was taken at the top of the property’s communal stairwell.

2008 (Feb 20) - Beatles' Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned

A 1976 Rolling Stones album bought for £2 at a car boot sale sold for £4,000 at an auction. The ‘Black and Blue’ LP was signed by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul and Linda McCartney and George Harrison as well as members of the Rolling Stones. The seller obtained the album after haggling the cost down from £3.

February 16

1964 (Feb 16) -The Beatles Second Live 'Ed Sullivan' Appearance

The Beatles made their second live appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, exactly one week after the first. Before an audience of 3,500 at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, The Beatles performed ‘She Loves You’, ‘This Boy’, ‘All My Loving’, ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, ‘From Me to You’, and ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’. Their appearance on the Sullivan show garners 70 million viewers nationwide.

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