01/10/2026 @ 12:00 am – The first US Beatles album, ‘Introducing The Beatles’, was released on Vee-Jay records. Vee-Jay would be forced to stop selling the disc by the end of the year because of legal complications, but by then over 1.3 million copies had been sold.
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2008 (Feb 20) – Beatles’ Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned
01/11/2026 @ 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 […]
1963 (Jan 11) – Beatles Record ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’
01/11/2026 @ 12:00 am – The Beatles recorded their first national TV show ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’. They mimed to their new single ‘Please Please Me’ which was released on this day. This was the first of eight appearances on the show between January, 1963 and March, 1965.
1966 (Feb 18) – Brian Wilson Finishes ‘Good Vibrations’
01/11/2026 @ 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 […]
2008 (Jan 11) – Ringo Helps Launch Liverpool ‘European Capital of Culture’
01/11/2026 @ 12:00 am – Ringo Starr helped launch the celebrations for Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture. The opening party kicked off a year-long program of more than 350 events. Organisers hoped the ‘Capital of Culture’ tag would attract an extra two million visitors to Liverpool and boost the economy by £100m.
1963 (Jan 11) – ‘Please Please Me/Ask Me Why’ Released In The UK
01/11/2026 @ 12:00 am – Please Please Me/Ask Me Why released in the UK. On Parlophone.
1964 (Jan 11) – Final Night of the ‘Beatles Christmas Show’
01/11/2026 @ 12:00 am – Final night of the show held at London’s Finsbury Park Astoria.
1964 (Jan 12) – Beatles Appear on ‘Sunday Night at the London Palladium’
01/12/2026 @ 12:00 am – They performed ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’, ‘This Boy’, ‘All My Loving’, ‘Money’ and ‘Twist And Shout’. Their fee had risen sharply. When The Beatles appeared on this show on October 13, 1963, their fee had been £250, now, just three months later, their fee was £1,000.
1981 (Jan 12) – John Lennon’s ‘Woman’ Released in the US
01/12/2026 @ 12:00 am – The second single released from the Double Fantasy album, and it was the first Lennon single issued after his murder on 8 December 1980. The B-side of the single is Ono’s song “Beautiful Boys”. The single debuted at number 3 in Lennon’s native UK, then moving to number 2 and finally reaching number 1, where […]
2008 (Feb 20) – Beatles’ Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned
01/12/2026 @ 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 […]