12/26/2019 @ All Day – The song would be #1 for three weeks. It was the Beatles’ sixth number one song of 1964. They were #1 a total of 18 weeks that year.
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1967 – BBC Broadcasts ‘Magical Mystery Tour’
12/26/2019 @ All Day – The film is aired in black and white. Reviews listed the film ‘an utter disaster’. Reaction was so negative that a US deal for airing the movie was cancelled.
1970 – George Harrison #1 with ‘My Sweet Lord’
12/26/2019 @ All Day – George becomes the first former Beatle to have a #1 in the US. He had written the song thinking it would be a good vehicle for Billy Preston.
1963 – Capitol Releases ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ and ‘I Saw Her Standing There’
12/26/2019 @ All Day – Capitol was an EMI affiliated company. Until this date, they had rejected the US rights to all Beatles records. Five weeks after its release, ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ was number one in the US. It stayed on top for seven weeks.
1963 – Lennon/McCartney Named ‘Outstanding Composers of 1963’
12/27/2019 @ All Day – The honor was bestowed by ‘The Times’. Two days later, Sunday Times music critic Richard Buckle proclaimed the two as “the greatest composers since Beethoven”.
1980 – ‘Double Fantasy’ #1 in the US
12/27/2019 @ All Day – The John and Yoko collaboration would be #1 for eight weeks. Also on this date, ‘Just Like Starting Over’ began a five week run as #1 on the singles charts.
1960 – The Beatles Appear at Litherland Town Hall Ballroom (Liverpool)
12/27/2019 @ All Day – The group was added at the last minute. Banners were pasted on posters saying ‘Direct From Hamburg, The Beatles!’. Most of the audience assumed they were a German group.
1962 – ‘Love Me Do’ reaches #17 on the British charts
12/27/2019 @ All Day – 17 was the highest position the single would reach.
2008 – Delaney Bramlett Dies
12/28/2019 @ All Day – Died from complications due to gall bladder surgery. A member of ‘Delaney, Bonnie & Friends’, and had worked with John Lennon, George Harrison and Eric Clapton.
1964 – Beatle Haircuts announced as ‘Job Prohibitors’
12/29/2019 @ All Day – The Liverpool Youth Employment Service says that some young men were having trouble finding jobs. Employers said their ‘Beatle style’ haircuts weren’t acceptable.