08/15/2025 @ All Day – During a US tour The Beatles appeared at the D.C. Stadium in Washington DC to over 32,000 fans. Tickets cost $3. Five members of the Ku Klux Klan, led by the Imperial Wizard of Maryland, picketed the concert.
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1962 (Aug 16) – It’s Official! Pete Fired.
08/16/2025 @ All Day – Brian Epstein told Pete Best that the other Beatles wanted him out of the group, and that he was being replaced. Epstein then asked Best to perform with The Beatles that night at the Riverpark Ballroom in Chester, Cheshire. Pete Best does not show up, drummer Johnny Hutchinson of The Big Three filled in the […]
1964 (Aug 16) – Concert in Blackpool
08/16/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles appear at the Opera House in Blackpool.
1968 (Aug 16) – Work on ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ Continues
08/16/2025 @ All Day – Working at Abbey Road studios on George Harrison song ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’, taking the song from its early acoustic version into an electric version.
1977 (Aug 16) – Beatles Influencer Elvis Presley Dies
08/16/2025 @ All Day – Elvis Presley was found dead lying on the floor in his bathroom by his girlfriend Ginger Alden, he had been seated on the toilet reading ‘The Scientific Search For Jesus’. He died of heart failure at the age of 42. His first record for RCA, ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ was also his first US No.1. He starred […]
1960 (Aug 17) – Beatles First Hamburg Engagement Begins
08/17/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles began their first Hamburg engagement at the Indra Club, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, West Germany, playing the first of 48 nights at the Club. The owner, Bruno Koschmider, asked The Beatles to “Mach Shau”, or really put on a show, which led to the band screaming, shouting, and leaping about the stage and sometimes […]
1964 (Aug 17) – Glasgow Addresses ‘Beatle Haircuts’
08/17/2025 @ All Day – Glasgow council in Scotland announced that all boys and men with Beatle styled haircuts would have to wear bathing caps after a committee was told that hair from ‘Beatle-cuts’ was clogging the pools filters.
1964 (Aug 18) – The Beatles Arrive in San Francisco
08/18/2025 @ All Day – Over 9,000 frenzied fans met The Beatles as they arrived in San Francisco, to begin an American tour. The Beatles were driven into a protective fence enclosure so that photographers could take pictures. As the 9,000 fans pressed against the fencing, it gave way, with The Beatles managing to get out split-seconds before it came […]
1962 (Aug 18) – Ringo’s Debut With The Beatles
08/18/2025 @ All Day – Ringo Starr made his debut with The Beatles at the horticultural society Dance, Birkenhead, England, having had a two-hour rehearsal in preparation. This was the first appearance of The Beatles as the world would come to know them: John, Paul, George, and Ringo.