07/18/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles begin recording their second album at Abbey Road.
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1969 (Jul 18) – Beatles Record ‘Octopus’s Garden’
07/18/2025 @ All Day – During sessions at Abbey Road studios, London, Ringo Starr recorded his vocal to ‘Octopus’s Garden’, for the Abbey Road album. Starr had written the song when he ‘quit’ The Beatles the previous year and was staying on actor Peter Seller’s yacht in the Mediterranean.
1974 (Jul 18) – US Justice Dept Orders John Out of the Country
07/18/2025 @ All Day – The US Justice Department ordered John Lennon out of the country by September 10th. The Immigration and Naturalization Service denied him an extension of his non-immigrant visa because of his guilty plea in England to a 1968 marijuana possession charge. The US Court of Appeal would overturn the deportation order in 1975 and Lennon was […]
1975 (Jul 19) – ‘Listen To What The Man Said’ #1 in the US
07/19/2025 @ All Day – Paul McCartney and Wings went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Listen To What The Man Said’, his fourth US No.1, and No.6 hit in the UK, (the track features Tom Scott playing the saxophone solo). It would go on to sell a million copies in America and reach No.6 in the UK. […]
1968 (Jul 19) – Recording Begins on ‘Sexy Sadie’
07/19/2025 @ All Day – It’s the first day of recording for The Beatles’ “Sexy Sadie.”
1967 (Jul 19) – ‘All You Need Is Love’ #1 in Britain
07/19/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘All You Need Is Love’ the group’s 12th UK No.1 single. The Beatles had been selected to represent the UK for the first-ever global-wide satellite broadcast. The group agreed to be shown in the studio recording a song written especially for the occasion, (which […]
1965 (Jul 19) – Ringo Buys Sunny Heights in Weybridge.
07/19/2025 @ All Day – Ringo buys Sunny Heights in Weybridge.
1961 (Jul 20) – ‘The Beat Brothers’ Get Press
07/20/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles, known as The Beat Brothers, get some press in the British paper Mersey Beat, which announces their first record deal.
2011 (Jul 20) – Never Before Seen DC Concert Photos Sold
07/20/2025 @ All Day – Never-before seen photographs of The Beatles’ first US concert in Washington DC sold in New York for more than $360,000 (£223,600). The Fab Four played their first US concert on February 11 1964, at the Washington Coliseum, two days after their debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. Mike Mitchell, of Washington, was 18 at the […]
1968 (Jul 20) – Jane Asher Announces Engagement to Paul is Off
07/20/2025 @ All Day – Jane Asher announced on the national British TV show, Dee Time, that her engagement to Paul McCartney was off. Paul reportedly was watching at a friend’s home and was surprised by the news. She was said to have inspired many of McCartney’s songs, such as ‘All My Loving’, ‘And I Love Her’, and ‘We Can […]