01/24/2026 @ 12:00 am – The Quarry Men performed at The Cavern Club in Liverpool. It was three years later when they appeared again at the Cavern but under their new name ‘The Beatles’.
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1984 (Jan 25) – Yoko Donates to Strawberry Fields
01/25/2026 @ 12:00 am – Yoko Ono donates £250,000 ($425,000) to Liverpool old people’s home Strawberry Fields.
1965 (Jan 25) – Beatles on Vacation
01/25/2026 @ 12:00 am – John & Cynthia join George Martin and his future wife in St Moritz; George & Patti are in Europe; Paul and Jane visit Tunisia.
2008 (Feb 20) – Beatles’ Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned
01/25/2026 @ 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 […]
1968 (Jan 25) – The Beatles Film Their ‘Yellow Submarine’ Cameo
01/25/2026 @ 12:00 am – Their appearance is inserted at the end of ‘Yellow Submarine’
1967 (Jan 25) – Last Minute Remix of ‘Penny Lane’
01/25/2026 @ 12:00 am – The Beatles, at the last minuted, remixed ‘Penny Lane’ before the pressing of their next double A sided single ‘Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane’. Both songs had originally intended for the forthcoming album ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’.
1966 (Feb 18) – Brian Wilson Finishes ‘Good Vibrations’
01/25/2026 @ 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 […]
2011 (Jan 25) – First Masters Degree in ‘The Beatles’ Awarded
01/25/2026 @ 12:00 am – Canadian singer Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy becomes the first person in the world to graduate with a Masters degree in The Beatles. She was one of the first students to sign up for the course on the Fab Four when it launched at Liverpool Hope University in March 2009. The ground-breaking course looked at the studio sound […]
1964 (Jan 25) – ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ is Beatles’ First US #1
01/25/2026 @ 12:00 am – The Beatles score their first No.1 in the US when ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ reaches the top of the Cash Box Magazine music chart. The Fab Four would eventually rack up 25 No.1’s in America.
1963 (Jan 26) – Beatles Play Two Gigs
01/26/2026 @ 12:00 am – The Beatles played two gigs. First at the El Rio Club/Dance Hall in Macclesfield, Cheshire, supported by Wayne Fontana and the Jets. Then they drove 20 miles to their next gig at King’s Hall, Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire.