03/31/2025 @ All Day – American guitarist and session musician Hugh McCracken. He appeared on many recordings by Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, Billy Joel, Roland Kirk, Roberta Flack, B. B. King, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, The Monkees, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, James Taylor, Phoebe Snow, Bob Dylan, Carly Simon, Graham Parker, Eric Carmen, Loudon Wainwright III, Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, […]
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1964 (Mar 31) – Beatles Live Concert Footage For ‘A Hard Days Night’
03/31/2025 @ 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’.
1969 (Mar 31) – George and Pattie to Court
03/31/2025 @ 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
03/31/2025 @ 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
03/31/2025 @ 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 […]
1972 (Mar 31) – Beatles Fan Club Officially Closed
03/31/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles Official Fan Club closed. The Beatles Monthly magazine had ceased three years previously.
1969 (Mar 31) – John Lennon Film ‘Rape’ Airs in Australia
03/31/2025 @ All Day – A short John Lennon film entitled Rape appears on Australian TV.
1967 (Apr 1) – Paul to America to see Jane Asher
04/01/2025 @ 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’.
2013 (Apr 1) – Autographed ‘Sgt Pepper’s’ Brings Record Price
04/01/2025 @ All Day – A signed copy of The Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sold at Dallas-based Heritage Auctions for $290,500 (£191,000). The selling price far exceeded the $30,000 (£19,700) originally estimated for the rare LP record. The UK Parlophone copy of the album included a high gloss cover and vinyl gatefold sleeve.
1966 (Apr 1) – John Inspired for ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’
04/01/2025 @ 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 […]