10/03/2025 @ 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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1969 (Oct 4) – ‘Abbey Road’ #1 in Britain
10/04/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles Abbey Road album went to No.1 on the UK chart. The final studio recordings from the group supposedly contained clues adding to the ‘Paul Is Dead’ phenomenon: Paul is barefoot and the car number plate ‘LMW 281F’ supposedly referred to the fact that McCartney would be 28 years old if he was still […]
1963 (Oct 4) – First Appearance on ‘Ready Steady Go’
10/04/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles made their first appearance on the UK ITV pop show ‘Ready Steady Go!’ The band is interviewed by Dusty Springfield.
1968 (Oct 4) – The Beatles Record ‘Martha My Dear’
10/04/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles record ‘Martha My Dear’. Martha is the name of Paul McCartney’s old English sheepdog.
2019 (Oct 4) – ‘Abbey Road’ Returns to #1 in Britain
10/04/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles’ Abbey Road returned to No.1 in the UK, 50 years after it first topped the album charts after the release of an expanded anniversary edition. The feat also sees the album set a record – the gap of 49 years and 252 days since its initial chart-topping run ended in early 1970 is […]
1988 (Oct 4) – Ringo Enters Rehab
10/04/2025 @ All Day – Determined to finally clean his system of the alcohol and drugs he’s been abusing for years, Ringo Starr, along with wife Barbara Bach, flies to Tucson, Arizona, to enter the Sierra Tucson Rehabilitation Clinic. He stays six weeks.
2008 (Feb 20) – Beatles’ Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned
10/04/2025 @ 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 […]
1967 (Oct 4) – John & George on David Frost
10/04/2025 @ All Day – George Harrison and John Lennon appear on David Frost’s TV show, where they take the “pro” side in a debate over Transcendental Meditation. On the panel is the author Juan Mascaro, who later sends Harrison a book containing a translation of Chapter 47 of Tao Te Ching, which he uses as the lyric for the […]
2008 (Feb 20) – Beatles’ Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned
10/05/2025 @ 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 […]