10/06/2025 @ All Day – A set of John Lennon’s fingerprints were seized by the FBI from a New York memorabilia dealer who intended to sell them for $100,000 (£62,621) minimum bid. The prints were taken at a New York police station in 1976 when Lennon applied for permanent US residence. The bureau believed the card was still government property […]
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1976 (Oct 7) – John Lennon Finally Gets Green Card
10/07/2025 @ All Day – John Lennon was awarded his ‘Green Card’ – permanent residency status, at a hearing in New York which overturned previous efforts by the US Government to deport him. The three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals ruled that his 1968 arrest in Britain for possession of marijuana was “contrary to US ideas of […]
1988 (Oct 7) – Documentary ‘Imagine: John Lennon’ Opens
10/07/2025 @ All Day – The documentary Imagine: John Lennon, commissioned by Yoko Ono and directed by Andrew Solt, opens in theaters.
2008 (Feb 20) – Beatles’ Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned
10/07/2025 @ 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 7) – Beatles Reject Million Dollar Shea Stadium Offer
10/07/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles rejected an offer of $1 million from promoter Sid Bernstein to make a second appearance at New York’s Shea Stadium. Bernstein had originally brought the group to Shea in August 1965. Sid Bernstein had actually successfully contracted the Beatles to play at Shea Stadium in both 1965 and 1966.
1963 (Oct 7) – Stones Record ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’
10/07/2025 @ All Day – The Rolling Stones recorded the Lennon and McCartney penned song ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’ at De Lane Lea Studios in London. The song which was primarily written by Paul McCartney, was finished by Lennon and McCartney in the corner of a room while Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were talking. The song peaked at […]
2016 (Oct 7) – Paul & ‘The Stones’ at the Desert Trip Festival
10/07/2025 @ All Day – The Rolling Stones played the first night of the Desert Trip festival, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. The event also featured Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Roger Waters and the Who. The six-day (split over two weekends) event rakes in $160 million, making it the highest-earning music festival ever.
2012 (Oct 8) – EMI Recalls Anniversary edition of ‘Love Me Do’
10/08/2025 @ All Day – Record label bosses at EMI recalled a vinyl, anniversary edition of The Beatles’ hit single ‘Love Me Do’ after discovering they had accidentally pressed a version that included session musician Andy White playing drums instead of Ringo Starr. Copies of the disc featuring the wrong version were reportedly selling on eBay.
1968 (Oct 8) – Beatles in Studio
10/08/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles record “Long, Long, Long,” “I’m So Tired,” and “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill.”