08/03/2025 @ All Day – Paul McCartney announced the formation of his new group Wings with his wife Linda and former Moody Blues guitarist and singer Denny Laine.
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1971 (Aug 3) – ‘It Don’t Come Easy’ Certified Gold
08/03/2025 @ All Day – Ringo Starr’s “It Don’t Come Easy” is certified Gold. (And Ringo plays piano with gloves!)
1963 (Aug 3) – Beatles Last Cavern Club Appearance
08/03/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles played their last ever performance at The Cavern Club in Liverpool. During their set a power cut silenced their instruments and plunged the Cavern into temporary darkness. Lennon and McCartney performed an acoustic version of ‘When I’m Sixty-Four’, a song they wouldn’t release until 1967, while waiting for the electricity to return. The […]
1958 (Aug 4) – Billboard’s Top 100 Introduced
08/04/2025 @ All Day – Billboard introduced ‘The Hot 100 Singles Chart’, Ricky Nelson was at No.1 with ‘Poor Little Fool’.
1963 (Aug 4) – Beatles in Blackpool
08/04/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles appeared at the Queen’s Theatre in Blackpool. So many fans crowded around the theatre, blocking every entrance, that The Beatles had to go through a construction area, up and across some scaffolding to the roof of the theatre, from where they were lowered through a trap door.
1963 (Aug 4) – Beatles About To Hit the US Charts
08/04/2025 @ All Day – UK music weekly The NME reported that The Beatles could score their first US hit with ‘From Me To You’ as the single was ‘bubbling under’ on the charts at No.116.
1946 (Aug 4) – Maureen Starkey Born
08/04/2025 @ All Day – Maureen Starkey is born Maureen Cox in Liverpool. She met Ringo at The Cavern Club and they married in 165. They divorced in 1975. She died in 1994 at the age of 48 due to complications from leukemia. Paul’s song ‘Little Willow’ from the ‘Flaming Pie’ album was written in her memory.
2007 (Aug 5) – Beatles Music Advertises Diapers
08/05/2025 @ All Day – Proctor and Gamble, maker of Luvs brand diapers, upsets Beatles fans around the world with their licensing of the song “All You Need Is Love” for a new television ad.
1969 (Aug 5) – George Gets a Moog
08/05/2025 @ All Day – George Harrison had his new Moog synthesizer brought into the studio for The Beatles to use in finishing their forthcoming album Abbey Road. Moog overdubs were recorded onto the new song ‘Because’.
1966 (Aug 5) – UK Single Release of ‘Yellow Submarine/Elearnor Rigby’
08/05/2025 @ All Day – ‘Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby’ released in the UK by Parlophone.