06/04/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles played two performances at the KB Hallen, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark on the first date of a 27-day world tour. Drummer Jimmy Nicol replaced Ringo Starr who was ill in hospital.
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1967 (Jun 4) – Sgt Pepper Goes to #1 in the UK
06/04/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles started a 23 week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Recorded over a 129-day period beginning in December 1966, the album widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time, includes songs such as ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ and ‘A Day […]
1986 (Jun 4) – Beatlemania! Producers Forced to Pay Up
06/04/2025 @ All Day – A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that the primary purpose of the stage show “Beatlemania” was to commercially exploit the Beatles’ popularity and that the show and movie producers should pay $10 million to Apple Corps Ltd.
1967 (Jun 4) – Jim Hendrix Plays Sgt Pepper Open; Paul Attends
06/04/2025 @ All Day – Jimi Hendrix is at the Saville theater. He opens his show with the opening intro to Sgt Pepper. Paul McCartney is in the audience.
1963 (Jun 4) – First ‘Pop Goes The Beatles’ Airs
06/04/2025 @ All Day – The first Pop Goes The Beatles program is aired on the BBC in the UK. The band plays a version of ‘Pop Goes The Weasel’ on the show.
1942 (Jun 4) – Capitol Records Founded
06/04/2025 @ All Day – Glenn Wallichs launched Capitol Records in the US. The label became home to such artists as Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, Glen Campbell, Steve Miller, Dr. Hook, Bob Seger, Tina Turner, Heart and countless others. Wallichs was the man who invented the art of record […]
1962 (Jun 4) – Beatles Sign First EMI Contract
06/04/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles sign their first record contract with EMI, though it’s merely to produce a series of demos. The band will have to pass its upcoming audition to get signed to make actual records.
2014 (Jun 4) – John Lennon Artifacts Sold at Auction
06/04/2025 @ All Day – Handwritten letters, notes, poems and sketches by John Lennon all exceeded pre-sale estimates at an auction at Sotheby’s in New York. The Fat Budgie, a nonsensical poem, sold for $143,000 (£85,000), having been valued at up to $35,000 (£21,000). A handwritten manuscript called I Sat Belonely went for $137,000 (£82,000), four times its estimate. The […]
1965 (Jun 4) – EP ‘Beatles For Sale 2’
06/04/2025 @ All Day – ‘Beatles For Sale 2’ EP Release in the UK.
1971 (Jun 5) – Grand Funk Passes Shea Stadium Gross
06/05/2025 @ All Day – Grand Funk Railroad beats The Beatles’ 1965 Shea Stadium record gross for a concert, after manager Terry Knight has the idea to raise ticket prices at Shea just enough to make that possible.