The Beatles Lyrics Repository

The Beatles on this Day 1.7.

1939

• Delaney Bramlett is born in Pontotoc County, Mississippi.

1961

• Start of validity of 1-year contract with Bert Kaempfert Produktions.

1962

• Performance at the Cavern, with Gene Vincent.

1963

• Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm. 7.00-10.00pm. Recording: 'She Loves You' (takes unknown); 'Get You In The End' (working title of 'I'll Get You') (takes unknown). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick.
  Start of sessions for the single 'She Loves You'/'I'll Get You'.
• Alley to the left of Abbey Road Studios. During a break in the recording session, photographic session.

1964

• 'With The Beatles', 32nd week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart).
• John buys a house in Surrey for £ 20,000.
• Cilla Black, with the Joe Loss Orchestra, sings before Princess Margaret and the Lord Chief Justice at a charity ball held at the Mansion House, London.
• Brian is appointed a director of W. A. Wilson & Farquharson (Investments) Limited, an investment and hire purchase company.
• Broadcast on Australian channel 9 TV programme 'The Beatles Sing For Shell' of the concert at the Melbourne Festival Hall (recorded 17 June 1964).
• The Beatles at Lime Grove BBC Studios.

1965

• S. E. Gadd Limited changes name to Clarendon Furnishing (Cheshire) Limited.
• US gold certification for 'Beatles VI'.
• The Beatles attend a party in their honour in Jerez, Spain.
• The Beatles [Lennon?] appear on cover of magazine ''Jet''.

1966

• Two concerts at the Budokan Hall (Martial Arts Hall), Tokyo. The first is filmed by Nippon Television.

1967

• 2nd concert of the Monkees at the Wembley Empire Pool, presented by NEMS Enterprises.

1968

• Studio 2. 5.00pm-3.00am. Recording: 'Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey' (overdub onto take 8, tape reduction take 8 into takes 9, 10, overdub onto take 10). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Richard Lush.
  Rough mix of 'Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey' in the control room, with John, Yoko, Geoff Emerick and Francie Schwartz in attendance. [26 June, 27 June?]
  Visits at the studio: Yoko Ono, Francie Schwartz. [26 June,27 June?]
• Robert Fraser Gallery, 69 Duke Street, Mayfair, London. Opening of John's art exhibition 'You Are Here (To Yoko From John Lennon, With Love').
  Before: launch ceremony, releasing 365 helium-filled white balloons.

1969

• Studio 2. 3.00-7.30pm. Recording: 'You Never Give Me Your Money' (overdub onto take 30). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: Chris Blair.
  Start of a new era of recordings.
• John, Yoko, Julian and Kyoko are involved in a car accident in Golspie, Scotland. They are hospitalised.

1996

• 10.30pm, Eastern Standard Time, USA. Premiere of restored version of 'A Hard Day's Night' on AMC (American Movie Classics).