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The Beatles on this Day 9.10.

1940

• 18.30. John Lennon is born at the Maternity Hospital, Oxford Street, Liverpool.

1962

• Cavern lunchtime session: the Big Three.
  Cavern evening session: Buddy Brittain and the Regents, the Big Three, the Undertakers, and the Strangers.
• Visit to the editorial office of 'Record Mirror', 116 Shaftesbury Avenue, London.

1963

• 'She Loves You', 6th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
  'Please Please Me' LP, 29th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
• BBC Paris Studio, London. 10.00-11.00pm. Recording for BBC's 'The Ken Dodd Show': 'She Loves You'.
• Broadcast of 'The Mersey Sound' ['The Mersey Beat'?], television BBC documentary. It includes images and an interview with Brian.
• [Some day between 7-13 October.] Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play 'A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum'.
• Recording for BBC's 'The Public Ear'.
• (After 8 October's midnight.) The Beatles see a Ronald Kirk performance at the Ronnie Scott Club, London.

1964

• 18.15 and 20.40. Concert at the Gaumont Theatre, Bradford.
  Start of UK tour, with Mary Wells, Tommy Quickly, Sounds Incorporated, Michael Haslam, the Remo Four, the Rustiks, and Bob Bain.
• Brian and Lionel Bart announce a concert starring Judy Garland.It never materializes.
• Recording of three themes at the Granville Theatre, London, before an audience, for the US TV programme 'Shindig'. One of the songs is 'The House Of The Rising Sun'.

1965

• Party organized by Lionel Bart to celebrate the opening of his new musical 'Twang!'. Brian and all 4 Beatles among the guests.
• 'Help!' single, 9th week in the Top 40 (Billboard).
  'Yesterday', 2nd week in the Top 40 (Billboard).

1968

• Studio 2. 7.00pm-5.30am. Stereo mixing: 'The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill' (remix 1, 2, from take 3). Mono mixing: 'The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill' (remix 1, from take 3). Recording: 'Long Long Long' (overdub onto take 67). Tape copying: 'Helter Skelter' (of take 3). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Ken Scott; 2nd Engineer: John Smith. Studio 1. Time unknown. Recording: 'Why Don't We Do It In The Road' (takes 1-5). Producer: not assigned; Engineer and 2nd Engineer: Ken Townsend.
  Copy of take 3 of 'Helter Skelter', for Paul. Paul alone works on 'Why Don't We Do It In The Road'.

1969

• Yoko is taken to the King's College Hospital, London. She suffers a miscarriage.

1970

• Abbey Road. End of recordings for 'John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band'.

1971

• Opening of Yoko's exhibition 'This Is Not Here' at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York. John is guest artist.
• John, Yoko, Ringo, Mal Evans, Allen Ginsberg, Eric Clapton, Phil Spector, Klaus Voorman, Neil Aspinal and Jim Keltner celebrate John's birthday in a New York hotel room. Drunken jam session.
• 'Uncle Albert', 8th week in the Top 40 (Billboard).

1975

• 1.00am. Yoko has throes of childbirth.
  New York Hospital. Morning. Sean Taro Ono Lennon is born.

1979

• John and Sean's birthdays are celebrated at the restaurant Tavern on the Green, Central Park, New York.

1980

• In New York's sky, planes write congratulatory words for John and Sean, for their birthday.

1989

• Paul concert at the Palais Omnisport De Bercy, Paris (Get Back Tour).

1993

• Paul concert at the Ahoy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (The New World Tour).

2001

• CD release: Listen To What The Man Said.