08/21/2025 @ 12:00 am – Sir Paul McCartney topped a list of the richest bassists in the world with estimated wealth of $1.2 billion according to the website www.therichest.com. Coming in at No.2 were Sting and Gene Simmons, both with a net worth of $300 million, followed by Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, U2’s Adam Clayton and Flea from the Red […]
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2006 (Aug 21) – Web Beatles Surfer Spoils Liverpool Burglary
08/21/2025 @ All Day – A man surfing the Internet in America foiled three men who broke into a Liverpool shop in Liverpool, England. The man who had logged onto a site streaming live footage of Mathew Street and a forthcoming Beatles festival saw the men smashing a window of a shop and climb inside. He phoned Merseyside police who […]
1967 (Aug 22) – Work Begins on ‘Your Mother Should Know’
08/22/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles are in studio working on ‘Your Mother Should Know’.
1968 (Aug 22) – Ringo Walks Out On The Beatles
08/22/2025 @ All Day – Ringo Starr quit The Beatles during The White Album sessions when the constant bickering and tension became too much for him. The news of Ringo’s departure was kept secret, and he rejoined the sessions on September 3rd. After Ringo walked out, the remaining Beatles recorded ‘Back In the USSR’, with Paul on drums and John […]
1963 (Aug 22) – Billy J Kramer #1 With Lennon’s ‘Bad To Me’
08/22/2025 @ All Day – Billy J Kramer And The Dakotas were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Bad To Me.’ A song John Lennon wrote for them while on holiday in Spain with Brian Epstein. The track later became the first Lennon–McCartney composition to reach the US Top 40 for an artist other than The Beatles.
2014 (Aug 22) – Mark David Chapman Denied Parole
08/22/2025 @ All Day – John Lennon’s killer, 59-year-old Mark David Chapman, was denied parole by New York State officials for the eighth time. In handing down their decision, the parole board said, “Your release would be incompatible with the welfare of society and would so deprecate the serious nature of the crime as to undermine respect for the law.”
1966 (Aug 22) – Girls Threaten ‘Ledge Jump’ Unless They Meet Beatles
08/22/2025 @ All Day – New York City teenagers Carol Hopkins and Susan Richmond climbed out onto the ledge on the second floor of a city hotel and threatened to jump unless they could get to meet The Beatles. Police talked then down.
1969 (Aug 22) – Beatles Final Photo Session
08/22/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles met at John Lennon’s Tittenhurst Park home in England for their final ever photo session. Three shots from this session (by Ethan Russell) formed the front and back covers of the Capitol compilation album Hey Jude. Yoko Ono and a pregnant Linda McCartney (she was to give birth to daughter Mary six days […]
1962 (Aug 22) – Beatles First Recorded for Television
08/22/2025 @ All Day – The first TV appearance of The Beatles was recorded by Manchester based Granada TV, who filmed a lunchtime session at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, (the performance was shown on 17th October 1962).
1966 (Aug 23) – Beatles #1 in Britain With ‘Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine’
08/23/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the double a sided ‘Yellow Submarine – Eleanor Rigby’. The group’s eleventh No.1. Paul McCartney said he came up with the name Eleanor from actress Eleanor Bron, who had starred with The Beatles in the film Help! Rigby came from the name of a […]