09/26/2025 @ All Day – Returning to Abbey Road studios in London, ex-Beatle John Lennon begins work on his first proper solo album, John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band.
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1969 (Sep 26) – ‘Abbey Road’ Released in the UK
09/26/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles released Abbey Road in the UK. The final studio recordings from the group featured two George Harrison songs ’Something’ (Harrison’s first A-side single), and ‘Here Comes The Sun’. In their interviews for The Beatles Anthology, the surviving band members stated that, although none of them ever made the distinction of calling it the […]
1989 (Sep 26) – Paul McCartney Begins World Tour
09/26/2025 @ All Day – Paul McCartney started his world tour at The Drammenshallen, in Drammen, Norway. It was McCartney’s first major tour outing in ten years, since Wings UK Tour 1979, and his first appearances in North America in thirteen years.
1976 (Sep 27) – Ringo Releases ‘Ringo’s Rotogravure’
09/27/2025 @ All Day – Ringo Starr releases Ringo’s Rotogravure.
2008 (Feb 20) – Beatles’ Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned
09/27/2025 @ All Day – A 1976 Rolling Stones album bought for £2 at a car boot sale sold for £4,000 at an auction. The ‘Black and Blue’ LP was signed by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul and Linda McCartney and George Harrison as well as members of the Rolling Stones. The seller obtained the album after haggling the cost […]
1979 (Sep 27) – Former Wings Guitarist Jimmy McCullough Dies
09/27/2025 @ 12:00 am – Scottish guitarist Jimmy McCullough died from a heroin overdose in his flat in Maida Vale, London, aged 26. Member of Stone The Crows, Thunderclap Newman and Wings (1974 to 1977). When ‘Something in the Air’ by Thunderclap Newman went to No.1 in 1969, it made McCulloch the youngest guitarist to ever play on a UK […]
1967 (Sep 27) – Band Works on a Walrus Song and a Fool Song
09/27/2025 @ All Day – Working on new songs The Beatles recorded various parts for the new John Lennon song ‘I Am The Walrus’ and the new Paul McCartney song ‘Fool On The Hill.’ Lennon received a letter from a pupil at Quarry Bank High School, that mentioned an English teacher was making his class analyse Beatles’ lyrics. Lennon, amused […]
1986 (Sep 27) – ‘Twist And Shout’ Re-enters The Charts
09/27/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles track ‘Twist and Shout’ re-entered the US singles chart over twenty-five years after it first appeared, after the song was featured in the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
2007 (Sep 28) – John Lennon Northern Lights Festival Held
09/28/2025 @ All Day – The John Lennon Northern Lights Festival was held in Durness, Scotland, the most northwesterly and remote village on mainland Britain. Lennon spent his childhood holidays between the ages of nine and 13 in the village and returned with his son Julian, Yoko Ono and her daughter Kyoko in 1969.