12/26/2025 @ All Day –
Blog Archive
1980 – ‘Double Fantasy’ #1 in the US
12/27/2025 @ All Day – The John and Yoko collaboration would be #1 for eight weeks. Also on this date, ‘Just Like Starting Over’ began a five week run as #1 on the singles charts.
1960 – The Beatles Appear at Litherland Town Hall Ballroom (Liverpool)
12/27/2025 @ All Day – The group was added at the last minute. Banners were pasted on posters saying ‘Direct From Hamburg, The Beatles!’. Most of the audience assumed they were a German group.
1962 – ‘Love Me Do’ reaches #17 on the British charts
12/27/2025 @ All Day – 17 was the highest position the single would reach.
2008 (Feb 20) – Beatles’ Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned
12/27/2025 @ All Day – 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 […]
1963 – Lennon/McCartney Named ‘Outstanding Composers of 1963’
12/27/2025 @ All Day – The honor was bestowed by ‘The Times’. Two days later, Sunday Times music critic Richard Buckle proclaimed the two as “the greatest composers since Beethoven”.
2008 – Delaney Bramlett Dies
12/28/2025 @ All Day – Died from complications due to gall bladder surgery. A member of ‘Delaney, Bonnie & Friends’, and had worked with John Lennon, George Harrison and Eric Clapton.
2008 (Feb 20) – Beatles’ Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned
12/28/2025 @ All Day – 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 […]
1964 – Beatle Haircuts announced as ‘Job Prohibitors’
12/29/2025 @ All Day – The Liverpool Youth Employment Service says that some young men were having trouble finding jobs. Employers said their ‘Beatle style’ haircuts weren’t acceptable.