01/05/2026 @ 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 […]
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1962 – ‘My Bonnie’ by Tony Sheridan Released
01/05/2026 @ 12:00 am – The single is released on Polydor. It’s billed as ‘Tony Sheridan and the Beatles’ or ‘Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers’.
1966 (Feb 18) – Brian Wilson Finishes ‘Good Vibrations’
01/05/2026 @ All Day – 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 […]
1997 (Jan 8) – Thieves Break Into George Harrison’s Estate
01/06/2026 @ 12:00 am – Two bronze busts worth $70,000 were stolen from a garden at George Harrison’s estate in Henley-on- Thames, Oxfordshire. Thieves had climbed a 10- foot-wall and cut the figures of two monks from their stone plinths.
1968 (Jan 6) – Magical Mystery Tour #1 in the US
01/06/2026 @ 12:00 am – It would be #1 for eight weeks. It was the band’s 11th US chart topper.
2008 (Feb 20) – Beatles’ Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned
01/06/2026 @ 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 […]
1966 (Feb 18) – Brian Wilson Finishes ‘Good Vibrations’
01/06/2026 @ All Day – 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 […]
1964 (Jan 7) – Beatles Record for BBC’s ‘Saturday Club’
01/07/2026 @ 12:00 am – The Beatles recorded a seven-song appearance for the BBC Radio program Saturday Club. They played ‘All My Loving’, ‘Money’, ‘The Hippy Hippy Shake’, ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’, ‘Roll Over Beethoven’, ‘Johnny B. Goode’, and ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’. The show was broadcast on February 15, while the Beatles were in the US.
1944 (Jan 7) – Michael McCartney (Mike McGear) Born
01/07/2026 @ 12:00 am – The brother of Paul McCartney was also an entertainer. His group, ‘The Scaffold’, had the 1968 Christmas UK Number 1 single ‘Lily The Pink’. (pics below)
1966 (Feb 18) – Brian Wilson Finishes ‘Good Vibrations’
01/07/2026 @ All Day – 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 […]