09/09/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles record ‘Helter Skelter’
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2005 (Sep 9) – Liverpool Council Confirms Ringo Birthplace Demolition
09/09/2025 @ All Day – Liverpool City Council confirmed it was to demolish Ringo Starr’s birthplace because it had “no historical significance.” The house in Dingle, was one of 460 properties to be demolished for a regeneration project. The council said Madryn Street had no significance because Ringo had spent only three months of his life there.
1963 (Sep 10) – Chance Meeting With The Stones
09/10/2025 @ All Day – During a chance meeting between The Rolling Stones at Studio 51 Jazz Club in London with Paul McCartney and John Lennon, the two played the Stones a partly finished song ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’ which the Stones later record.
1939 (Sep 10) – Cynthia Lennon Born
09/10/2025 @ All Day – Cynthia Lennon first wife of John Lennon, the couple divorced on 8th November 1968. She died at her home in Spain on 1st April 2015 following a short battle with cancer.
1966 (Sep 10) – Revolver #1 in the States
09/10/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles started a six-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Revolver the group’s ninth US chart topper. The title ‘ Revolver ‘, like Rubber Soul before it, is a pun, referring both to a kind of handgun as well as the “revolving” motion of the record as it is played on […]
2005 (Sep 10) – ‘A Day In The Life’ Voted Best British Song Of All Time
09/10/2025 @ All Day – The 1967 Beatles track ‘A Day In The Life’ from Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was voted the best British song of all time by music experts. The survey by Q magazine called the track “the ultimate sonic rendition of what it means to be British”. The Kinks’ song ‘Waterloo Sunset’ came second in […]
1963 (Sep 10) – Daily Mirror Features The Beatles
09/10/2025 @ All Day – The Daily Mirror published a two-page article about The Beatles. Written by Donald Zec, the feature is entitled ‘Four Frenzied Little Lord Fauntleroys Who Are Earning 5,000 Pounds A Week’ Zec, who had attended a Beatles concert in Luton on Sept. 6 and then invited them to his home to complete the interview, […]
1963 (Sep 10) – John and Paul Attend Stones Rehearsal
09/10/2025 @ All Day – While traveling in London, John Lennon and Paul McCartney encounter Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, who worked as a promoter for The Beatles earlier in the year. Oldham invites them to The Stones rehearsal, where Lennon and McCartney complete a song they were working on, “I Wanna Be Your Man,” and give it to […]
1968 (Sep 10) – ‘Hey Jude’ at #1 in the UK
09/10/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Hey Jude’, the group’s 15th UK No.1 and the longest chart topper ever at seven minutes and ten seconds. The single was the first release on the group’s Apple records label.
2015 (Sep 11) – ‘Uptown Funk’ Passes ‘Mull of Kintyre’
09/11/2025 @ All Day – Mark Ronson’s hit ‘Uptown Funk!’ became the fifth biggest-selling single in British chart history with over two million UK sales and overtaking Paul McCartney & Wings’ 1977 chart-topper ‘Mull Of Kintrye/Girls’ School’.