04/01/2025 @ 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).
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1967 (Apr 1) – Sgt. Pepper’s Marathon Recording Sessions End
04/01/2025 @ All Day – Effectively the last day of recording for ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’.
2015 (Apr 1) – Cynthia Lennon Dies
04/01/2025 @ All Day – Cynthia Lennon, first wife of The Beatles’ John Lennon died at her home in Spain following a short battle with cancer. At the height of The Beatles’ early success she was, at the insistence of the band’s management, kept in the background so their legions of female fans were not aware of her existence. The […]
1961 (Apr 1) – Beatles Begin Residency in Hamburg
04/01/2025 @ 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 […]
1969 (Apr 2) – John & Paul and the Bankers
04/02/2025 @ All Day – John and Paul meet with bankers to try and retain control of Northern Songs. Dick James wants to sell his shares to ATV.
2006 (Apr 2) – John Lennon Schoolbook Sells at Auction
04/02/2025 @ All Day – A John Lennon schoolbook containing the 12-year-old’s drawing of Lewis Carroll’s poem The Walrus and the Carpenter was sold at auction for £126,500, ($239,733). The poem inspired Lennon to write The Beatles’ 1967 song ‘I Am The Walrus’. Also sold for £12,000, ($22,741) was a ship’s log book written by Lennon during a stormy trip […]
1964 (Apr 2) – Beatles #1 in the UK with ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’
04/02/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles had their fourth UK No.1 single with ‘Can’t Buy Me Love.’ With advanced sales of over 2.1 million, it holds the record for the greatest advanced orders for a single in the UK.
1966 (Apr 2) – Herb Alpert Albums Top The Beatles
04/02/2025 @ All Day – Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass become the first act with four albums in the US Top 10 simultaneously. Alpert’s albums spend more weeks at #1 in 1966 than The Beatles.
1973 (Apr 2) – Beatles Release Two Compilation Albums
04/02/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles release two compilation albums: ‘The Beatles 1962-1966’ and ‘The Beatles 1967-1970’. Both will land in the Top 10 on the US and UK albums charts, with ‘1967-1970’ hitting #1 in the US.