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.
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2012 – Autographed ‘Please Please Me’ Sold
12/30/2019 @ All Day – The copy of ‘Please Please Me’ sold for £12,000. The album was signed by John, Paul, George and Ringo after they used it as a drink coaster in 1963.
1947 – Jeff Lynne Born
12/30/2019 @ 12:00 am – Member of the Traveling Wilburys with George Harrison, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and others. English songwriter, singer, record producer Jeff Lynne was a member of Idle Race, then The Move who had the 1969 UK No.1 single ‘Blackberry Way’. He co-founded ELO who had the 1979 hit ‘Don’t Bring Me Down’ and many others. As […]
2016 – Allan Williams Dies
12/30/2019 @ All Day – The first manager of the Beatles, working with the group from 1960 to 1961. He worked to get the group gigs in Britain and Hamburg. He was 86.
1999- George and Olivia Harrison Attacked At Their Home
12/30/2019 @ All Day – The pair were at their home in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. After George was stabbed, Olivia beat off the attacker with a poker and heavy lamp. George was admitted to the hospital and treated for a collapsed lung and various stab wounds. Olivia had cuts and bruises. Michael Abram from Liverpool was arrested in the attack.
1959 – Tracy Ullman Born
12/30/2019 @ 12:00 am – Buds with Paul, she appeared in his ‘Give My Regards to Broad Street’ film, and he made a cameo in the video of her hit song ‘They Don’t Know’.
1996 – ‘Sir’ Paul McCartney Announcement
12/31/2019 @ All Day – Paul was listed in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List. The official ceremony would take place the following March.
2012 – John to Eric Clapton Letter Sold at Auction
12/31/2019 @ All Day – The letter, dated September 29, 1971, involved John asking Eric to collaborate on a musical project. The letter had been estimated at $20-$30,000. It sold for $35,000 at auction.
1969 – John & Yoko Spread Peace in Denmark
12/31/2019 @ All Day – John Lennon and Yoko Ono were in Aalborg in Denmark on this day. They stayed with Ono’s first husband Tony Cox, his new wife Melinde, and Kyoko, Cox and Ono’s six-year-old daughter. Lennon and Ono remained with the Coxes in their farmhouse in Ellidsbølvej over the new year period, returning to England on 25 January […]