The Beatles Lyrics Repository

The Beatles on this Day 24.2.

1961

• Performance at the Grosvenor Ballroom, Wallasey.

1962

• Performance at the Cavern.

1963

• Concert at the Coventry Theatre, Coventry (Helen Shapiro tour).

1964

• The Beatles appear on cover of US 'Newsweek'. Cover headline: 'eeeeeeeeeeeee... EEEEEEEEEEEEE, EEEEEEEEEEEE!'

1965

• Start of 'Help!' shootings in Bahamas.

1967

• Studio 2. 7.00pm-1.15am. Recording: 'Lovely Rita' (overdub onto take 9, tape reduction take 9 into takes 10, 11). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Richard Lush.
• Date planned for meeting of Brian and Nat Weiss.

1969

• Trident Studios. Time unknown. Tape copying: 'I Want You' (later known as 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' (of unnumbered Trident master). Producer: not assigned; Engineer: Barry Sheffield; 2nd Engineer: Richard Lush.
  Security copy of 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)'.
• Triumph Investment gets control over NEMS.

1973

• 'Hi Hi Hi', 9th and last week in the Top 40 (Billboard).

1982

• John is awarded a posthumous Grammy for 'Double Fantasy'.

2004

• CD boxed set: The Dark Horse Years, 1976-1992.