03/31/2026 @ All Day – Filming for A Hard Day’s Night, The Beatles played a ‘live television performance’ in front of a studio of screaming fans (one of those fans was Phil Collins). The four songs used in the film were ‘Tell Me Why’, ‘I Should Have Known Better’, ‘And I Love Her’, and ‘She Loves You’.
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1969 (Mar 31) – George and Pattie to Court
03/31/2026 @ All Day – George and Pattie Harrison appear in court in Surrey to answer recent charges of marijuana resin possession. Each are fined 250 pounds.
1963 (Mar 31) – The Beatles Play Strouds’ Subscription Room
03/31/2026 @ All Day – The Beatles play Strouds’ Subscription Rooms. It’s the last night of the Tommy Roe/Chris Montez tour.
1949 (Mar 31) – RCA Introduces the 45 Record
03/31/2026 @ All Day – RCA Victor introduced the 45rpm single record, which had been in development since 1940. The 7-inch disc was designed to compete with the Long Playing record introduced by Columbia a year earlier. Both formats offered better fidelity and longer playing time than the 78rpm record that was currently in use. Advertisements for new record players […]
1961 (Apr 1) – Beatles Begin Residency in Hamburg
04/01/2026 @ All Day – The Beatles began a three-month residency at The Top Ten Club, Hamburg, playing 92 straight nights. The group played for seven hours a night on weekdays and eight hours at weekends with a fifteen-minute break every hour. It was during this visit that Astrid Kirchherr cut Stuart Sutcliffe’s hair into the style destined to become […]
1967 (Apr 1) – Paul to America to see Jane Asher
04/01/2026 @ All Day – Upon the completion of the Sgt Pepper’s sessions, Paul boards Frank Sinatra’s private jet to fly to America to meet up with Jane. During this trip he comes up with the idea for ‘Magical Mystery Tour’.
1966 (Apr 1) – John Inspired for ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’
04/01/2026 @ All Day – John Lennon bought a copy of Timothy Leary’s ‘The Psychedelic Experience’ and ‘The Tibetan Book Of The Dead’, where he read near the beginning of the book’s introduction; “When in doubt, relax, turn off your mind, float downstream,” which captured Lennon’s imagination and became the first line of ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’, (which he recorded 5 […]
1970 (Apr 1) – Phil Spector Brings Orchestra in for Beatle Sessions
04/01/2026 @ All Day – 50 musicians recorded the orchestral scores for The Beatles tracks ‘The Long And Winding Road’ and ‘Across The Universe’ for the Phil Spector produced sessions. The bill for the 50 musicians was £1,126 and 5 shillings, ($1.914).
1967 (Apr 1) – Sgt. Pepper’s Marathon Recording Sessions End
04/01/2026 @ All Day – Effectively the last day of recording for ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’.
