This Day in Beatle History

December 26

1939 - Phil Spector Born

1962 (Jun 6) - First Beatles Recordings at What Will Become 'Abbey Road'

The first Beatles recording session took place at EMI studios. The group recorded four tracks, one of which was ‘Love Me Do’ the four musicians received payments for the session of £7.10 ($12.07) each.

1963 - Capitol Releases 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' and 'I Saw Her Standing There'

Capitol was an EMI affiliated company. Until this date, they had rejected the US rights to all Beatles records. Five weeks after its release, ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ was number one in the US. It stayed on top for seven weeks.

1964 - 'I Feel Fine' #1 in the US

The song would be #1 for three weeks. It was the Beatles’ sixth number one song of 1964. They were #1 a total of 18 weeks that year.

1965 - Paul McCartney Injured in Moped Crash

While visiting his father in Cheshire, Paul crashes a moped and suffers a cut to his mouth and a chipped tooth. Details and pictures of the event were later used to support the ‘Paul is Dead’ rumors.

1966 - John Appears on the BBC's 'Not only..But also'

John makes an appearance as a men’s room attendant in the Peter Cook-Dudley Moore vehicle.

1966 (Feb 18) - Brian Wilson Finishes 'Good Vibrations'

Beach Boy Brian Wilson finished recording the future classic song ‘Good Vibrations’, which went on to become the band’s third US number-one hit. As a child, his mother told him that dogs could pick up “vibrations” from people, so that the dog would bark at “bad vibrations” Wilson turned this into the general idea for the song.