07/23/2025 @ All Day – UK release of ‘Help!/I’m Down’
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1989 (Jul 23) – Ringo Kicks Off First ‘Post Beatles’ Tour
07/23/2025 @ All Day – Ringo Starr kicked off his first tour since the break-up of the Beatles with a show in Dallas. His backup band included guitarist Joe Walsh, organist Billy Preston and Bruce Springsteen’s sax man Clarence Clemons.
1964 (Jul 23) – ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ Single #1 in Britain
07/23/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, the group’s fifth UK No.1.
2001 (Jul 23) – Paul McCartney Becomes Engaged to Heather Mills
07/23/2025 @ All Day – 59-year-old Paul McCartney, who lost his first wife Linda to cancer three years ago, became engaged to 33-year-old Heather Mills, an activist for the disabled. It was the first marriage for the 33-year-old Mills, a former swimwear model whose left leg was amputated below the knee after she was run down by a police motorcyclist […]
1968 (Jul 23) – Beatles Work on ‘That Monkey Song’
07/23/2025 @ All Day – Working at Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles recorded ‘Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey’ for their forthcoming double album The Beatles.
1964 (Jul 25) – Album ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ Tops UK Charts
07/24/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles third album ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ started a twenty-one week run at the top of the UK charts. This was the first Beatles album to be recorded entirely on four-track tape, allowing for good stereo mixes.
1967 (Jul 24) – The Beatles Call For Legalizing Marijuana
07/24/2025 @ All Day – All four Beatles and their manager Brian Epstein signed a petition printed in The Times newspaper calling for the legalisation of marijuana.
1967 (Jul 24) – The Beatles Meet The Maharishi
07/24/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose lecture on Transcendental Meditation (TM) they had gone to hear at the Hilton Hotel in London. TM involved the silent repetition of a word or sound to produce a state of mind that reduces stress, calms the mind, and energizes both mind and body. The Maharishi invited The […]
1978 (Jul 24) – ‘Sgt Pepper’ Movie Released
07/24/2025 @ All Day – The Robert Stigwood film Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released, featuring The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton. The film received extremely negative reviews from most critics and barely broke even at the box office.