05/31/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles record ‘It’s All Too Much.’
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1964 (May 31) – Brian Epstein Promotes ‘Pops Alive Concert’
05/31/2025 @ All Day – A Brian Epstein promoted ‘Pops Alive’ concert is held at the Prince of Wales Theater in London.
1962 (May 31) – Beatles End Seven Weeks at the ‘Star Club’
05/31/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles played the last night of a 7-week run at the Star-Club, Hamburg, West Germany. During their residency they would play for four-and-a-half hours on weekdays and six hours on Saturdays, with some songs lasting over 20 minutes to fill out the time.
1967 (Jun 1) – Sgt Pepper Released in the UK
06/01/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles released Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, in the UK. Recorded over a 129-day period beginning in December 1966, the album is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time and was the first Beatles album where the track listings were exactly the same for the UK and US versions. As […]
1962 (Jun 6) – First Beatles Recordings at What Will Become ‘Abbey Road’
06/01/2025 @ All Day – The first Beatles recording session took place at EMI studios. The group recorded four tracks, one of which was ‘Love Me Do’ the four musicians received payments for the session of £7.10 ($12.07) each.
1964 (Jun 1) – The Beatles in Studio Working on ‘A Hard Days Night’
06/01/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles work on the ‘A Hard Days Night’ album at Abbey Road.
2007 (Jun 1) – Sgt Pepper Cover Album Released
06/01/2025 @ All Day – Contemporary musicians recorded their own versions of songs from the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper album to mark 40 years since it was released. Acts including Oasis, Travis, The Fray, Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, Bryan Adams and The Magic Numbers all worked with Geoff Emerick – the engineer in charge of the original 1967 sessions, using the original […]
1969 (Jun 1) – Plastic Ono Band Records ‘Give Peace A Chance’
06/01/2025 @ All Day – The Plastic Ono Band recorded ‘Give Peace A Chance’ during a ‘bed-in’ at the Hotel La Reine in Montreal, Canada. Producer Phil Spector, poet Allan Ginsberg and writer Timothy Leary all sang on the song.
1966 (Jun 1) – Overdubs for ‘Yellow Submarine’
06/01/2025 @ All Day – During a 12 hour session at Abbey Road studios, The Beatles added overdubs on ‘Yellow Submarine’, with John Lennon blowing bubbles in a bucket of water and shouting “Full speed ahead Mister Captain!” Roadie Mal Evans played on a bass drum strapped to his chest, marching around the studio with The Beatles following behind (conga-line […]
1962 (Jun 6) – First Beatles Recordings at What Will Become ‘Abbey Road’
06/02/2025 @ All Day – The first Beatles recording session took place at EMI studios. The group recorded four tracks, one of which was ‘Love Me Do’ the four musicians received payments for the session of £7.10 ($12.07) each.