09/28/2025 @ 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 […]
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1901 (Sep 28) – Ed Sullivan Born
09/28/2025 @ All Day – Ed Sullivan, TV host, The Ed Sullivan Singers and Orchestra. Introduced The Beatles and other UK acts to America via his Ed Sullivan TV show. The Beatles appearance on February 9th 1964 is considered a milestone in American pop culture; the broadcast drew an estimated 73 million viewers. Sullivan died on 13th October 1974.
2010 (Sep 28) – Ringo’s Childhood Home Vandalized
09/28/2025 @ All Day – Souvenir hunters were being condemned for “wanton vandalism” after sections of masonry were hacked off the house of Ringo Starr’s birthplace. Fans who were campaigning to halt town hall plans to demolish 9 Madryn Street, found that chunks of brickwork had been removed from the house.
1976 (Sep 28) – A&M Sues George For $6 Million
09/28/2025 @ All Day – A&M Records sued George Harrison for $6 million over non-delivery of a new album after he missed the deadline by two months.
1968 (Sep 28) – ‘Hey Jude’ #1 in the US
09/28/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles started a nine week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Hey Jude’. The Paul McCartney song written about John Lennon’s son Julian gave the group their 16th US No.1 and the biggest selling single of 1968. In 1996, Julian paid £25,000 for the recording notes to the song at an […]
2009 (Sep 28) – The ‘Lucy’ Who Inspired ‘Lucy In The Sky’ Dies
09/28/2025 @ All Day – Lucy Vodden, the childhood pal of John Lennon’s son Julian, passed away at the age of 46 after losing her battle with auto-immune disease lupus. She was the inspiration for The Beatles track ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’, written mostly by John after Julian showed his father a nursery school drawing he called Lucy […]
1967 (Sep 29) – John Hears Shakespeare and Decides to Incorporate It
09/29/2025 @ All Day – John Lennon flips on the radio while working on “I Am The Walrus” and hears a BBC broadcast of the Shakespeare play King Lear, which he decides to mix into the song.
1967 (Sep 29) – Work Continues on ‘I Am The Walrus’
09/29/2025 @ All Day – Working at Abbey Road in London, The Beatles mixed the new John Lennon song ‘I Am The Walrus’, which included the sound of a radio being tuned through numerous stations, coming to rest on a BBC production of William Shakespeare’s “King Lear”. Lennon composed the song by combining three songs he had been working on. […]
2008 (Feb 20) – Beatles’ Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned
09/29/2025 @ 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 […]
2015 (Sep 29) – Beatles First Contract With Brian Epstein Sold
09/29/2025 @ All Day – The original contract signed by The Beatles and manager Brian Epstein sold at Sotheby’s for £365,000, ($548.000). The 1962 document was said to be one of the most important contracts in popular music, marking the beginning of the band’s journey to international fame.