03/23/2025 @ 12:00 am – At a ceremony held at the Playhouse Theatre in London, The Beatles were awarded three Ivor Novello awards for 1966: Best-selling British single ‘Yellow Submarine’, most-performed song ‘Michelle’, and next-most-performed song ‘Yesterday’. None of the Beatles attended and the winning songs were played by Joe Loss and his Orchestra. The lead vocal for ‘Michelle’ was […]
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2008 (Mar 23) – Neil Aspinall Dies
03/23/2025 @ All Day – Neil Aspinall, who ran the Apple Corps music empire for the Beatles from 1970 – 2007 died at a hospital in New York from cancer aged 66. A school friend of Sir Paul McCartney and George Harrison, he was regarded by some of the band as the ‘fifth Beatle’ becoming The Beatles road manager in […]
2000 (Mar 24) – Yoko’s Lost Film of John Lennon Sold
03/24/2025 @ All Day – A film company paid £635,000, ($1,079,500) for over nine hours of film shot during the 70s by Yoko Ono. The film contained shots of Lennon smoking hash and talking about his political beliefs.
1969 (Mar 24) – John and Yoko Lunch with Salvadore Dali
03/24/2025 @ All Day – In Paris, John and Yoko have lunch with Salvadore Dali.
1964 (Mar 23) – ‘In His Own Write’ Published
03/24/2025 @ All Day – John Lennon’s book of verse and rhyme ‘In His Own Write’ was published in the UK. Some of the content was first published in Lennon’s ‘Beachcomber’ column in the Liverpool weekly paper Mersey Beat.
1974 (Mar 24) – Paul Celebrates ‘Venus And Mars’ Release
03/24/2025 @ All Day – To celebrate the release of the Wings album ‘Venus and Mars’, Paul McCartney throws a party on the Queen Mary to celebrate. Bo Dylan and Joni Mitchell are among the guests.
2013 (Mar 24) – Shea Stadium Pics Sold At Auction
03/24/2025 @ All Day – Pictures of The Beatles’ 1965 Shea Stadium concert, taken by an amateur photographer who bluffed his way backstage, sold for £30,000 at auction. Marc Weinstein used a fake press pass to get next to the stage for the historic New York show. His 61 black and white images with copyright fetched £30,680, the successful bidder […]
1965 (Mar 24) – Filming on ‘Help!’ Continues
03/24/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles continued filming Help! at Twickenham Studios, England. They shot the interior temple scenes, including the one where they dive through a hollow sacrificial altar and into water. That scene was then cut to the swimming pool scene filmed in the Bahamas on February 23.
1970 (Mar 23) – Paul Finishes Mixing ‘McCartney’
03/24/2025 @ All Day – Paul finishes mixing the master tapes of his solo album ‘McCartney’.