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1967 (Feb 28) – Work Begins on ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’

02/28/2026 @ All Day – On the last day of February, work begins on the song ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’

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1968 (Mar 1) – Ringo and Maureen Leave Rishikesh

03/01/2026 @ All Day – Ringo and Maureen Leave Rishikesh

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1967 (Mar 1) – Beatles Working on ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’

03/01/2026 @ All Day – Working at Abbey Road studios, London, The Beatles started recording a new John Lennon song ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’.  Despite the supposed drug references, John always insited the song was inspired by a drawing his 3 year-old son Julian returned home from school with one day.  The picture, which was of a little […]

1985 (Mar 1) – ‘Help!’ Licensed to Ford Motor Co.

03/01/2026 @ All Day – Ford licenses The Beatles song ‘Help!’ for a commercial. This is the first time a fab four song is used in a TV ad.

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1966 (Mar 1) -Cavern Club The Site of a ‘Sit In’

03/01/2026 @ All Day – A hundred Beatles fans stage a sit-in at Liverpool’s Cavern Club. It is the first live home for the band and it is closing due to bankruptcy.

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1967 (Feb 29) – John’s US Visa Expires

03/01/2026 @ All Day – John Lennon’s US Visa expires.  He now begins a four year fight for immigrant status.

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1968 (Feb 29) – ‘Sgt Pepper’ Cleans Up At The Grammys

03/01/2026 @ All Day – The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band won album of the year, best cover and best-engineered and recorded album at this year’s Grammy Awards.

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1970 (Mar 1) – Beatles’ Last Ed Sullivan Appearance

03/01/2026 @ All Day – The Beatles make their last appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Music videos for ‘Let It Be’ and ‘Two Of Us’ are aired.

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2013 (Mar 2) – Paul Childhood Pencil Doodles Fetch Big Bucks

03/02/2026 @ All Day – A pencil doodle by Paul McCartney when he was a teenager sold for over $5,000. The sketches were drawn by McCartney during the late 1950s while a student at the Liverpool Institute High School For Boys. The drawings showed multiple faces with different expressions on a single sheet of paper in pencil. The auction house […]

1964 (Mar 2) – Beatles Begin Filming ‘A Hard Days Night’

03/02/2026 @ All Day – The Beatles began filming what would become their first feature film A Hard Day’s Night at Marylebone train station in London.

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