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The Beatles on this Day 12.10.

1962

• Performance at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, as main support act for Little Richard, along with 10 other Liverpool groups. Among them: the Undertakers, Rory Storm, Billy J. Kramer, Lee Curtis, and the All Stars (with Pete Best). It is rumored that during the evening Little Richard tries to seduce Paul.
  Later, performance at the Cavern, with Little Richard.

1963

• 'Please Please Me' LP number 1, 23rd week (UK Record Retailer chart).
• [Some day between 7-13 October.] Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play 'A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum'.

1964

• Studio 2 (control room only). 10.00-10.30am. Mono mixing: 'She's A Woman' (remix 1, from take 6). Stereo mixing: 'She's A Woman' (from take 6). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott. Studio 2 (control room only). 2.30-3.00pm. Mono mixing: 'Eight Days A Week' (remix 1, from take 13). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott.
• Brian Epstein Automobiles Limited is incorporated, with Brian one of its opening directors.
• Wendy Hanson returns from the USA to work at Argyll Street NEMS office.
• US LP release: 'Songs, Pictures And Stories Of The Fabulous Beatles'.

1965

• Studio 2. 2.30-7.00pm. Recording: 'Run For Your Life' (takes 1-5). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott/Phil McDonald. Studio 2. 7.00-11.30pm. Recording: 'This Bird Has Flown' (working title of 'Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)') (take 1). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott.
  First session for 'Rubber Soul'. First use of the sitar.
• Opening night of James Baldwin's play 'Amen Corner', at the Saville Theatre, presented by Brian. Attendance of Brian, and his guests, Dusty Springfield, Sir Joseph Lockwood, Lionel Bart, Andrew Oldham, Walter Shenson, Dick James.

1966

• 'Yellow Submarine', 10th and last week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart).
  'Eleanor Rigby', 10th and last week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart).
• NEMS Enterprises admits that the Moody Blues have splitted up.

1967

• De Lane Lea Music Recording Studios. 2.30-8.00pm. Mono mixing: 'It's All Too Much' (remixes 1, 2, from take 2). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Dave Siddle; 2nd Engineer: Mike Weighell. Studio 3. 6.30pm-2.00am. Mono mixing: 'Blue Jay Way' (remixes 2-9, from take 3). Editing: 'Blue Jay Way' (of mono remixes 6, 9). Recording: 'Accordion (Wild)' (working title of 'Shirley's Wild Accordion') (takes 1-8, tape reduction take 8 into takes 9, 10, overdub onto take 10, takes 11-15). Mono mixing: 'Accordion (Wild)' (working title of 'Shirley's Wild Accordion') (remixes 1, 2, 3, from takes 10, 7, 14, respectively). Producer: John Lennon; Engineer: Ken Scott; 2nd Engineer: Richard Lush.
  First John official credit as producer in a Beatles session.

1968

• Studio 2 (control room only). 7.00pm-5.45am. Stereo mixing: 'Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey' (remix 1, from take 12); 'Helter Skelter' (remix 1-5, from take 21); 'Mother Nature's Son' (remixes 1, 2, from take 26); 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da' (remixes 1-4, from take 23). Mono mixing: 'Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey' (remix 1, from take 12); 'Mother Nature's Son' (remixes 1, 2, from take 26); 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da' (remix 10, from take 23); 'Long Long Long' (remix 1, from take 67). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Ken Scott; 2nd Engineer: John Smith.
• 1st showing on US television of a 7-minute promotional short called 'A Mod Odyssey', including a footage of the Beatels at TVC (TV Cartoons Ltd).

1969

• Russ Gibbs, of the WKNR-FM, affirms he has received an anonymous phone call saying that Paul has died.
• Yoko miscarries. End of Yoko's stay at the King's College Hospital, London.

1974

• 'Whatever Gets You Thru The Night', 2nd week in the Top 40 (Billboard).

1983

• 'Say Say Say' number 1, 1st week (Billboard).

1997

• John Denver dies in the Monterrey Bay, San Francisco, California, when the plane he flies falls in the sea.
• Free concert to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Summer of Love.