February 15
1964 (Feb 15) - 'Meet The Beatles' Becomes Band's First US #1 |
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1965 (Feb 15) - 'Eight Days A Week' and 'I Don't Want To Spoil The Party' Released |
1965 (Feb 15) - John Passes His Driving Test |
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1966 (Feb 18) - Brian Wilson Finishes 'Good Vibrations' |
1968 (Feb 15) - Part of the Band Heads to India |
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1968 (Jan 20) - 'Judy In Disguise' is #1. Inspired by 'Lucy In The Sky'? |
One Hit Wonders John Fred and the Playboy Band started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Judy In Disguise, (With Glasses)’. It topped at No.3 in the UK. The song was allegedly inspired by The Beatles ‘Lucy In The Sky’. |
1974 (Feb 15) - 'Jet/Let Me Roll It' Released |
2001 (Feb 15) - George Harrison on MSN Live |
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2008 (Feb 15) - Former Beatles' Flat Goes Up For Auction |
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2008 (Feb 20) - Beatles' Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned |
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The Beatles scored their first US No.1 album with Meet The Beatles! The album stayed at No.1 for eleven weeks. The album sold over four million copies in the US by December 31, 1964.
John Lennon becomes a licensed driver.
John and Cynthia Lennon, along with George and Patti Harrison and Cynthia’s sister Jenny, flew to India to study meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Paul and Ringo joined them a few days later, but Starr would become bored and leave on March 1st, comparing the experience to be like a ‘Butlins holiday camp.’ Much of the Beatles’ The White Album was written during their stay.
George Harrison enters the cyber age with an online chat on MSN Live.
A flat once rented by The Beatles in London went up for sale for £1.75m. The band shared the three-bedroom top floor property in Green Street, Mayfair in the autumn of 1963. A publicity photo of the Fab Four peering over a banister, used as the cover for the December 1963 edition of The Beatles Book, was taken at the top of the property’s communal stairwell.
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