01/19/2026 @ 12:00 am – Please Please Me enters the charts in the UK.
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2008 (Feb 20) – Beatles’ Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned
01/19/2026 @ 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 […]
2008 (Feb 20) – Beatles’ Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned
01/20/2026 @ 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 […]
1970 (Jan 20) – John and Yoko Return From Copenhagen
01/20/2026 @ 12:00 am – John & Yoko have their hair cropped in Copenhagen. They then return home after nearly a month in Denmark.
1945 (Jan 20) – Former Wings Member Eric Stewart Born
01/20/2026 @ 12:00 am – Eric Stewart who with the Mindbenders had the 1966 UK No.2 single ‘Groovy Kind Of Love’. With Hotlegs the 1970 UK No.2 single ‘Neanderthal Man’ and as a member of 10cc. He was the co-owner of Strawberry Studios in Stockport, England from 1968 to the early 1980s. He also collaborated with Paul McCartney extensively in […]
2000 (Jan 20) – ‘Birthplace Of The Beatles’ Signs Banned
01/20/2026 @ 12:00 am – Tourism departments in Liverpool were banned from putting up motorway signs saying ‘Liverpool, the Birthplace Of The Beatles’ because the Highways Agency thought the signs would distract motorists.
1966 (Feb 18) – Brian Wilson Finishes ‘Good Vibrations’
01/20/2026 @ 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 […]
1969 (Jan 20) – ‘Get Back’ Filming Moves to Apple Studios
01/20/2026 @ 12:00 am – The idea of a live concert is shelved. Filming of ‘Get Back’ is moved to the incomplete Apple Studios at 3 Saville Row.
2017 (Jan 20) – Sir Paul Sues Sony Over Beatles Catalog
01/20/2026 @ 12:00 am – Sir Paul McCartney was suing Sony over control of The Beatles’ back catalogue. McCartney had gone to a US court, seeking to regain the publishing rights to 267 of the band’s classic songs. He had been trying to get them back since the 1980s, when Michael Jackson famously out-bid him for the rights. Jackson’s debt-ridden […]
1988 (Jan 20) – Beatles Inducted Into RRHOF
01/20/2026 @ 12:00 am – The Beatles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Yoko, Sean, and Julian Lennon all attend. Paul McCartney did not attend, sending instead a letter stating that continuing business differences with the other ex-Beatles was the reason for his absence.