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1962

1926

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• George Martin , Beatles musical director, born January 3, in London
  
  
  
  
• All You Need Is Ears by George Martin
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• George Martin Rarities
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  1929

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• The residence at 3 Abbey Road is bought by The Gramophone Company Limited

  1931

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• Allen Klein is born in Newark, New Jersey, December 18

  1932

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• Richard Lester is born in Philadelphia, January 19
  
  
  
• The Man Who "Framed" the Beatles:
  A Biography of Richard Lester by Andrew Yule, Paul McCartney, introduction
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  1933

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• Yoko Ono is born in Tokyo, February 18
  
  
  
  
• Y E S Yoko Ono by Yoko Ono
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  1934

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• Brian Samuel Epstein, Beatles manager, born September 19 (in Rodney Street, in Liverpool)
  
  
  
  
• The Man Who Made the Beatles: An Intimate Biography of Brian Epstein by Ray Coleman
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  1939

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• Cynthia Powell is born in Blackpool, September 10
  
  
  
  
• A Twist of Lennon by Cynthia Lennon
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  1940

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• June
  Stuart Sutcliffe, born July 7, in Edinburgh
  
  
  
  
• The Beatles' Shadow: Stuart Sutcliffe & His Lonely Hearts Club by Pauline Sutcliffe
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  July
  Richard Starkey ( Ringo Starr), born July 7 (in family home, 9 Madyrn Street, Dingle, in Liverpool)
  
  
  
  

• Ringo Starr -- Straight Man or Joker? by Alan Clayson
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  October
  John Winston Lennon, born October 9 (at Oxford Maternity Hospital in Liverpool)
  
  
  
  

• Lennon : Definitive Biography, The by Ray Coleman
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  December
  Phil Harvey Spector is born in the Bronx, New York, USA, December 26
  
  
  
  

• He's A Rebel, Phil Spector Biography by Mark Ribowsky
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  1941

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• September
  Linda Eastman, is born in Scarsdale, New York, September 24
  
  
  
  
• Linda McCartney by Danny Fields
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  October
  Neil Aspinall, is born October 13
  

  1942

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• James Paul McCartney, born June 18 (at Walton General Hospital in Liverpool)
  
  
  
  
• Paul McCartney Encyclopedia by Bill Harry
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  1943

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• George Harold Harrison, born February 25 (in family's terraced home, 12 Arnold Grove, in Liverpool)
  
  
  
  
• I, Me, Mine by George Harrison
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  1946

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• Billy Preston, born September 9 in Houston, Texas
  
  
  
  
• Ultimate Collection by Billy Preston
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  1950

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• George Martin, after working three months for the BBC, leaves and takes job at Parlophone Records as a result of being paid £7, four shillings and threepence, £1 more than the BBC was paying at the time. George Martin becomes an assistant to chief producer/owner of the label, Oscar Preuss. George is immediately given the task of handling the classical repertoire which included baroque, orchestral and choral music

  1950

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• Brian starts working at his family furniture store, I. Epstein & Sons, Walton Road, Liverpool

  1952

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• September
  John Lennon enters Quarry Bank High School

  1955

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• February
  Brian Epstein is appointed a director of NEMS Enterprises

  March
  Brian Epstein appointed a director of S. E. Gadd Limited, one of two companies controlling the furniture dealing side of the family business

  August
  Brian Epstein appointed a director of I. Epstein & Sons (Liverpool) Limited, one of the two furniture-dealing sides of the family business

  1956

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• September
  Brian Epstein a private test with John Fernald, the Director, and is admitted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London

  1957

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  January 16th
  The Cavern Club opens
  
  
  
  

• The Beatles - from Cavern to Star Club by Olaf Gottfridsson
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  March
  

• John Lennon with Pete Shotton forms the group The Black Jacks . The Black Jacks become The Quarrymen a week after forming and the band performs what's known in England as skiffle

• Get Back Together by Quarrymen - buy: cd

  July 6
  The Quarry Men perform at St. Peter's Church Garden Fete. John and Paul meet, introduced by Ivan Vaughan and the pair find out that they have similar pop idol interests: "Paul, what kind of music do you like?" asked John. "Well I used to like Lonnie Donnegan but now that skiffle is fading out I love the music of Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochrane, Gene Vincent, Little Richard..." "Hey," John interrupted, "they're all the people I'm into."

  July 12
  John invites Paul to join The Quarrymen
  

  August 7
  The debut at Cavern Club, without Paul, where the audience gives them a hard time for their for performing rock numbers such as Hound Dog and Blue Suede Shoes. The Cavern is located in Liverpool's market district

  September
  John Lennon commences studies at the Liverpool College of Art

  October 18
  Evening performance of the Quarrymen in a ball held by the Conservative Club, at the New Clubmoor Hall, Broadway, Liverpool. Paul's debut.  Paul plays for John a couple of tunes he had composed, one of them being I Lost My Little Girl

  1958

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  February 8th
  

• Evening performance of the Quarry Men at the Wilson Hall, Garston.  Paul introduces George to John

  July 15
  Julia Lennon , John's mother, is fatally struck down by a car driven by an off-duty drunken police officer. (When the trial ends, the officer was acquitted of the offence.)
  

  1959

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  August
  

• Ringo Starr begins drumming for Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. ( Ringo would be Rory's drummer right up until August 18, 1962)
  August 29th
  
• Opening night of the Mona Best's Casbah Coffee Club in West Derby. Show by the ( Quarrymen ( John, Paul, George, Ken Brown). The group continues to play there each Saturday well into October. Sometimes, with name The Rainbows. The group know the Mona' son, Pete Best , a drummer with a group called The Blackjacks. The new entry, Ken Brown, performs on bass with John, Paul and George for very short time here

  October 10th
  

• Ken Brown quits the Quarrymen

  October 31
  

• Quarry Men audition for Carrol Levis show in Liverpool. During this audition period, the band would change its name from Quarry Men to Johnny and the Moondogs by November 15.
  

  November 15th
  

• Manchester. Regional finals of a competition to appear on TV's Star Search. The Beatles find the last bus back to Liverpool leaves before curtain call and return dejected.

1960

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January


• Stuart Sutcliffe joins the Quarrymen, having acquired a bass guitar that he never really learns to play. April 23rd
  
• John and Paul perform as a duet at Caversham, Berkshire, calling themselves the Nerk Twins

  April 24th
  

• John and Paul perform as a duet at Caversham, Berkshire, calling themselves the Nerk Twins

  May
  

• John asks Allan Williams to manage The Moondogs. The group play at Williams' Jacaranda Coffee Bar

  May 10th
  

• Audition for Larry Parnes. This time the drummer is Tommy Moore, but he arrives late for the audition, and for this reason Johnny Hutchinson is used , lent from Cassanovas

  May 20th
  

• Contract with Paramount Enterprises, to play the Grosvenor Ballroom, Wallasey.  -- Start of tour of Scotland as backup band for Johnny Gentle

  May 23rd
  

• Johnny Gentle crashes the van carrying himself and the Beatles. Tommy Moore is hit in the mouth by a guitar

  May 25th
  

• The Cavern changes style and opens its doors to rock'n'roll groups.

June 6th


• Performance at the Grosvenor Ballroom, Wallasey, with Gerry and the Pacemakers
  
  
  
  
• The Best of Gerry & the Pacemakers: The Definitive Collection by Gerry and the Pacemakers
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  June 13th
  

• Tommy Moore's last performance on drums at Jacaranda

June 16th


• Performance at the Neston Institute, Hinderton Road, Neston, Wirral, Cheshire

  June 16th - July 30th
  

• Perform at Neston Istitute and Grosvenor Ballroom. The Silver Beetles employ Norman Chapman, as their drummer

  June 18th - July 30th
  

• Perform at the Grosvenor Ballroom, Grosvenor Road, Liscard, Wallasey, Cheshire

  August 6th
  

• The Beatles visit the Casbah Coffee Club, seeing Pete Best perform with the Blackjacks

  August 12th
  

• The group audition Pete Best and invite him to travel to Hamburg with them and become their permanent drummer
  
  
  
  
• Beatle!: The Pete Best Story by Pete Best
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  August 16th
  

• Leave Liverpool for Hamburg

  August 17th
  

• Arrive in Hamburg. Evening: first performance at the Indra Club
  
  
  
• Beatles Bop-Hamburg Days / Hardcover Book by Tony Sheridan
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  August 19th
  

• The Beatles are hired to perform 2 additional months at the Indra Club

  December 5th
  The Beatles luck in Hamburg runs out:
  - Harrison ><is deported for being underage for working in a night club;
  - McCartney & Pete Best are arrested for pinning a condom to a brick wall and then igniting it.
  The two are told to leave Germany. The band returns home, discouraged.

  December 24th
  

• Concert at the Grosvenor Ballroom, Wallasey

  December 27th
  

• Perform at the Litherland Town Hall, Liverpool

  1961

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  February 14th
  

• Perform at the Casanova club, Liverpool. Filmed. Earliest Beatles footage known.
  Paul switched to bass sometime before.

  February 24th

• Perform at the Grosvenor Ballroom, Wallasey

  March 21st

• Performance at The Cavern , as support act to the Bluegenes

  March 27th

• The Beatles arrive in Hamburg, for performances in the Top Ten and, later, the Star Club (2nd Hamburg season).

  April 24th

• Brian arrives in Hamburg to attend a course in record retailing management, run by Deutsche Grammophon

  June 15th

• Perform at the Top Ten Club, Hamburg

  June 16th

• Perform at the Top Ten Club, Hamburg

  June 17th

• Perform at the Top Ten Club, Hamburg

  June 18th

• Perform at the Top Ten Club, Hamburg

  June 19th

• Perform at the Top Ten Club, Hamburg

  June 20th

• Perform at the Top Ten Club, Hamburg

  June 21st

• Perform at the Top Ten Club, Hamburg

  June 22nd & 23rd
  

• On this date, Tony Sheridan and The Beatles do first session recordings for Bert Kaempfert with the following songs: My Bonnie (Lies Over the Ocean), The Saints (When the Saints Go Marching In), Why, Cry For a Shadow, Ain't She Sweet, Take Out Some Insurance On Me Baby, and Nobody's Child". The German Polydor single, My Bonnie b/w When the Saints Go Marching In is released in August 1961 listed as Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers [Polydor / 24 673] which became a big top-ten hit for Sheridan in Germany. The UK release of the single was issued January 5, 1962 and listed as Tony Sheridan and The Beatles [Polydor NH 66-833]. Polydor then later decided to release a Tony Sheridan album aptly entitled My Bonnie in June of 1962 as Polydor LPHM 46-612 [mono] and Polydor SLPHM 237-112 [stereo]. The band's line-up for the album consisted for the most part of Tony Sheridan, Pete Best, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and featured pianist Roy Young on Sweet Georgia Brown

• The Beatles & Tony Sheridan by The Beatles
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  July 1st

• Start of a 1-year contract with Bert Kaempfert Produktions

  July 3rd

• Arrive back in Liverpool

  July 6th

• First issue of Mersey Beat is published
  
  
  
  
• Mersey Beat by Harry
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  July 14th

• Welcome to the Beatles at The Cavern Club. First performance at The Cavern after the return from Hamburg

  July 20st

• Mersey Beat front page: Beatles Sign Recording Contract (with Bert Kaempfert)

  July 21st

• 1st midday session. Perform at the Cavern

  July 25th

• Perform at the Cavern, with Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Bluegenes, and others

  July 26th

• Perform at the Cavern, with The Four Jays and Remo Four
  

  August
  

• My Bonnie / When The Saints (Go Marching In) (single) is released in Germany (Decca Records)

  August 2nd

• Perform at the Cavern

  August 3rd

• Brian's first record review column published in the 3rd issue of Mersey Beat

  August 5th

• First afternoon show: Perform at the Cavern, with Remo Four.

  August 31st

• Mersey Beat publishes an article by Bob Wooler about the Beatles

  September 1st

• Lunch time and afternoon: performance at the Cavern

  September 5th

• Perform at the Cavern, with Remo Four, the Bluegenes, and Gerry and the Pacemakers

  September 6th

• Perform at the Cavern, with Sandon and the Searchers, and Ian and the Zodiacs

  September 7th

• Perform at the Cavern. No other acts

  September 13th

• Perform at the Cavern, with The Remo Four, and the Pressman

  September 14th

• Perform at the Litherland Town Hall, Liverpool

  September 15th

• Lunch time performance at the Cavern

  September 19th

• Lunch time performance at the Cavern

  September 20th

• Afternoon performance at the Cavern, with Karl Terry and the Cruisers, and The Zombies

• The Zombies - Greatest Hits [SACD] by The Zombies
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  September 21st

• Lunch time performance at the Cavern . Perform at the Litherland Town Hall, Liverpool

  September 28th

• Perform at the Litherland Town Hall, Liverpool

  October 18th

• Perform at the Cavern , with Ian and the Zodiacs and the Four Jays

  October 19th

• Performance of part of the Beatles and part of Gerry and the Pacemakers, under the name of Beatmakers, at the Litherland Town Hall, Liverpool

  October 28th

• The ficticious Raymond Jones asks for a copy of My Bonnie, by the Beatles, at Brian Epstein's record store. Soon after, another youngster asks for a Beatles' record

  October 30th

• Two girls ask for more copies of My Bonnie at the NEMS record store

  November 8th

• Brian , phones to the Cavern, asking for a ticket

  November 9th

• Cavern lunch session: The Beatles. By 12.30pm, Brian and Alistair Taylor visit the Cavern, during the Beatles performance

  November 10th

• Perform at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton. Part of the Big-Beat operation, a festival with Gerry and the Pacemakers, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Remo Four, and Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes

  December 1st

• Meeting of Brian with Colin Borland and Beecher Stevens, both from Decca, to negotiate a recording contract, at their London office. -- Concert at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton

  December 3rd

• The Beatles and Bob Wooler meet Brian at NEMS record store. Before the meeting they go with Wooler to drink to the Bridge pub. 4.30pm. Time agreed for the 1st formal meeting with Brian. 5.30pm. John, George, Pete and Bob Wooler are the first to appear at the meeting. 6.00pm. Half an hour later than the rest, and after going home to take a bath, Paul appears at NEMS
  

  December 4th

• Representatives of Deutsche Grammophone London office visit Liverpool to meet Brian and listen to him requesting that My Bonnie be released as a single in the UK

  December 6th

• Meeting between the Beatles and Brian at NEMS

  December 7th

• Ron White writes to Brian, returning the Beatles' German contract

  December 8th

• Brian writes to Ron White, from the EMI sales department, to get them an EMI record contract. Brian has already sent him a copy of My Bonnie. -- Concert at the Tower Ballroom, Neeww Brighton.

  December 11th

• Afternoon meeting of the Beatles and Brian, at the Casbah Coffee Club

  December 12th

• Concert at the Nottingham Odeon

  December 13th

• Mike Smith, from Decca's A & R department, visits the Cavern -- Perform at the Casbah

  December 15th

• Perform at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton

  December 18th

• Ron White sends an apology to Epstein, rejecting the group

  December 23rd

• Perform at the Cavern

  December 27th

• Perform at the Cavern, with Gerry and the Pacemakers, and Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes

  December 29th

• Perform at the Cavern, with the Yorkshire Jazz Band

  December 31st

• The Beatles leave from Liverpool for London in Neil's car. Brian goes by train. They sleep at the Royal Hotel, Woburn Place, London

  1962

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  January 1st
  

• Test session for Decca due to start at 11.00am.  Decca Studios, at West Hampstead. Record: Like Dreamers Do; Money (That's What I Want)'; Till There Was You; The Sheik of Araby; To Know Her is to Love Her; Take Good Care of My Baby; `Memphis, Tennessee; Sure to Fall; Hello Little Girl; Three Cool Cats; Crying Waiting Hoping; Love of the Loved; September in the Rain; Besame Mucho; Searchin. After the session, Brian returns to Liverpool.   -- Decca's test session, at West Hampstead, with Brian Poole and the Tremeloes.

  January 4th
  

• Mersey Beat front page: Beatles Top Poll!. Issue almost completely dedicated to the Beatles

  January 5th
  

• UK single release: My Bonnie

  January 6th
  

• Perform at the Cavern, with the Collegians

• The Collegians II   by The Collegians
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  January 10th
  

• Perform at the Cavern, with Gerry and the Pacemakers, and the Strangers

  January 12th
  

• Perform at the Cavern, with Mike Cotton's Jazzmen

  January 17th
  

• Perform at the Cavern, with the Remo Four, and Ian and the Zodiacs

  January 24th
  

• Signing of a management contract between Brian and the Beatles, at Brian's office at the NEMS record store in Whitechapel

  February 1st
  

• Perform at the Thistle Cafe, West Kirkby, Wirral. 1st gig under Brian's management

  February 2nd
  

• Perform in Manchester. 2nd performance under Brian's management

  February 3rd
  

• Perform at the Cavern, with The Saints Jazz Band, and Gerry and the Pacemakers

  February 6th
  

• Lunch at the Decca's session executive club on Albert Enbankment, with Brian, Dick Rowe and Beecher Stevens ; Rowe and Stevens tell Brian of Decca's rejection

  February 8th
  

• Brian goes to HMV's store, 363 Oxford Street, London, to have acetates cut from tapes of some songs from the Decca audition, and chat with Bob Boast, disc-cutter Jim Foy, and Sid Colman, who introduces him to George Martin

  February 10th
  

• Brian writes to Dick Rowe, about Rowe's decision not to sign the Beatles to a recording contract with Decca

  February 20th
  

• Brian writes to Bert Kaempfert, asking him to release the Beatles from their contract

  February 24th
  

• Perform at the Cavern

  February 28th
  

• Perform at the Cavern, with Gerry and the Pacemakers, and the Searchers

• The Very Best of The Searchers   by Searchers
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  March 2nd
  

• Perform at the Cavern

  March 3rd
  

• Perform at the Cavern , with Jim McHarg's Jazzmen

  March 7th
  

• The Playhouse Theatre, Hulme, Manchester. 8.00-8.45pm. Recording for BBC's `Teenager's Turn (Here We Go): Hello Little Girl ; Memphis Tennessee; Dream Baby; Please Mister Postman .      1st BBC session. In front of a live audience. 1st public performance in the Beno Dorn worsted stage suits.     Pete Best on drums.     1st live show preserved on tape, only recording of Dream Baby , and only live performances of Memphis Tennessee and Please Mister Postman

  March 8th
  

• 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's Teenager's Turn (Here We Go) broadcast (all 7 March 1962 session except Hello Little Girl )

  March 23rd
  

• Perform at the Cavern, with Gerry and the Pacemakers

• Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying/Second Album by Gerry and the Pacemakers
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  March 24th
  

• Evening performance at a dance booked by the Heswall Jazz Club, at the Barnston Women's Institute, Wirral

  March 28th
  

• Perform at the Cavern, with Gerry and the Pacemakers and the Remo Four

• Very Best of Gerry & The Pacemakers by Gerry and the Pacemakers
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  March 29th
  

• Concert at The Odd Spot, with the Mersey Beats

  March 30th
  

• Perform at the Cavern , with The Dallas Jazz Band

  March 31st
  

• 1st professional performance in the South of England (Stroud), organized by Jack Fallon

  April 2nd
  

• Concert at the Pavilion Theatre, Liverpool

  April 4th

• Perform at the Cavern, with the Four Jays and The Dominoes

  April 5th

• Perform at the Cavern

  April 6th

• While shopping in Penny Lane, Cynthia begins feeling labour pains

  April 7th

• Perform at the Cavern, with the Saints Jazz Band

  April 8th

• Beatles leave once again for Hamburg, Germany

  April 10th

• Stuart Sutcliffe dies of a brain hemorrhage. 

  April 11th

• John, Paul and Pete arrive in Hamburg (3rd trip). They will play the Star Club

  April 12th

• Brian and George travel to Hamburg, for Star Club performances

  April 13th

• Start of Star Club performances

  April 23rd

• US single release: My Bonnie

  May 8th

• Brian meets at HMV Shop, Oxford St., London, with Bob Boast, Jim Foy, disc cutter, and Syd Coleman, general manager

  May 9th

• Mid-morning: meeting between Brian and George Martin at Abbey Road        Learn of a pending record deal with Parlophone via telegram. Reported in Mersey Beat the telegram from Brian Epstein went thus: "HAVE SECURED CONTRACT TO RECORDED (sic) FOR EMI ON PARLOPHONE LABEL 1ST RECORDING DATE FOR JUNE 6TH - BRIAN EPSTEIN."

  After receiving the good news from Brian Epstein, the band wrote back:
  Paul: "Please wire £10,000 advance royalties."
  George: "Please order four new guitars."
  John: "When are we going to be millionaires?"

  May 31st

• Date of end of Hamburg contract.  -- Mersey Beat announces Beatles recording contract with EMI

  June 2nd

• The Beatles return from Hamburg to Liverpool

  June 4th

• Signing of 1st recording contract with EMI

  June 6th

• Studio 2/3 6.00-8.00pm. Recording:
   - Besame Mucho (takes unknown)
   - Love Me Do (takes unknown)
   - P.S. I Love You (takes unknown)
  Producer: Ron Richards and George Martin
  Engineer: Norman Smith;
  2nd Engineer: Chris Neal

  Parlophone audition

  June 9th

• 7.00-12.00pm. 1st performance at the Cavern after returning from Germany, along with The Red River Jazzmen, Ken Dallas and the Silhouettes, and the Four Jays

  June 11th

• The Playhouse Theatre, Manchester. 8.00-9.00pm. Recording for BBC's Here We Go:
   - Ask Me Why
   - Besame Mucho
   - A Picture Of You
  Last available recording with Pete Best on drums. 1st available take of Ask Me Why . Only BBC take of Besame Mucho . Only recording of A Picture Of You, and 1st documented time of George taking the lead vocal

  June 15th

• 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's Here We Go broadcast (recorded 11 June 1962).  -- Lunch and evening: perform at the Cavern, with the Soiderman

  June 16th

• Evening: performance at the Cavern, with Tony Smith's Jazzmen

  June 19th

• Lunch time, evening. Perform at the Cavern, with the Bluegenes, and Ken Dallas and the Silhouettes

  June 20th

• Lunch time, evening.  Perform at the Cavern, with The Strangers and The Sorrals

  June 21st

• Perform at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, as one of the support acts for Bruce Channel, who heads the bill of the first pop dance/concert promoted by Brian

  
  
  
  
  

• Hey! Baby by Bruce Channel
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• Stand Up by Bruce Channel
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  June 22nd

• Perform at the Cavern, with The Cyclones

  June 26th

• Brian and Clive form NEMS Enterprises Limited, in which they are directors and shareholders.   -- Ron White writes Brian, on hearing of the Beatles' contract with George Martin   -- Joe Flannery forms his booking agency Carleton Brook Management

  June 27th

• Perform at the Cavern, with the Big Three

  June 28th

• Perform at the Majestic, Birkenhead

  June 29th

• Brian politely responds to Ron White's letter (written 26 June 1962) with another letter.   -- Concert at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton

  July 1st

• Perform at the Cavern, with Gene Vincent

• Race With the Devil: Gene Vincent's Life in the Fast Lane by Susan Vanhecke
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• Gene Vincent Rarities
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  July 26th

• Brian presents Joe Brown and his Bruvvers, heading a bill including the Beatles, at the Cambridge Hall, Southport

  July 27th

• Brian presents Joe Brown and his Bruvvers, heading a bill including the Beatles, at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton. A big fight occurs during the concert

  July 28th

• Concert at the Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead.  Perform at the Cavern, with The Red River Jazzmen, and Dee Fenton and The Silhouettes

  August 1st

• Perform at the Cavern, with Gerry and the Pacemakers, and the Mersey Beats

• Best Of-Ferry Cross the Mersey by Gerry and the Pacemakers
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  August 2nd

• Concert at the River Park Ballroom, Chester

  August 5th

• Perform at the Cavern, with The Saints Jazz Band

  August 6th

• Concert at the Grafton Ballroom, with Gerry and the Pacemakers, and The Big Three

• How Do You Like It by Gerry and the Pacemakers
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  August 8th

• Concert at the Cavern, with The Big Three, and Shane Fenton and the Fentones

  
  
  

• I'm a Moody Guy by Shane Fenton and the Fentones
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  August 14th

• Brian approaches Ringo as substitute for Pete Best

  August 15th

• Perform at the Cavern

  August 16th

• Brian sacks Pete Best  Ringo Starr is to become the band's new drummer. Neil Aspinall would later recall how it came about: "...so I drove him (Pete Best) into town to see him. I was in the record store looking at records, and he came down and said he had been fired. He was in a state of shock, really. We went over to the Grapes pub in Matthew Street, had a pint."

  -- Concert at the Riverpark Ballroom, Chester

  August 17th

• Perform at the Cavern. Last with Pete Best

  August 18th

• First performance of Ringo as Beatles' drummer. Perform at the Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight, Cheshire. Perform at the Cavern

  August 22nd

• Filmed performance at the Cavern, for a Granada Television programme.  First filmed record of the Beatles

  August 23rd

• John marries Cynthia, at the Mount Pleasant Register Office. Wedding lunch, funded by Brian,  for John and Cynthia, at Reece's cafeteria, Liverpool.   -- Evening: perform at the Riverpark Ballroom, Chester

  August 28th

• Perform at the Cavern with the Bluegenes, and Gerry Levine and the Avengers

  August 30th

• Perform at the Riverpark Ballroom, Chester

  September 3rd

• Perform at the Queen's Hall, Widnes, with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, and Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas

• At Abbey Road: 1963-1966 by Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas
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  September 4th

• 2.30-5.00pm. Ron Richards leads a rehearsal of six songs, including:
   - How Do You Do It?
   - Love Me Do
   - Please Please Me
  Dezo Hoffmann takes pictures during the pre-session rehearsal. First Hoffmann's Beatles publicity shots

  5.30-7.00pm. Restaurant Alpino. ;- Beatles dine with Neil Aspinall and George Martin

  
  
  

• With the Beatles: The Historic Photographs of Dezo Hoffmann by
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• Studio 2. 7.00-10.00pm. Recording:
   - How Do You Do It? (takes unknown)
   - Love Me Do (takes 1-15+).
  Mono mixing:
   - How Do You Do It? (from take 2)
   - Love Me Do (from unknown take number)
  Producer: George Martin
  Engineer: Norman Smith

  First session for the first single. Remixes for cutting acetates

  September 5th

• Brian listens to the first acetates of Love Me Do, at George Martin's office at EMI House, Manchester Square, London

  September 6th

• Perform at the Riverpark Ballroom, Chester.  -- The Mersey Beat publishes the article On Safari With Whide Hunter, written by John, under the pseudonym Beatcomber

  September 8th

• Perform at the Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead

  September 9th

• Perform at the Cavern, with Billy Kramer and the Coasters, and Clinton Ford

  September 10th

• Perform at the Queen's Hall, Widnes, along with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Geoff Stacey and the Wanderers

  September 11th

• Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm. Recording:
   - P.S. I Love You (takes 1-10)
   - Love Me Do [re-make] (takes 1-18)
   - Please Please Me (takes unknown)
  Mono mixing:
   - P.S. I Love You (from take 10)
   - Love Me Do (from take 18)
  Producer: Ron Richards
  Engineer: Norman Smith

  End of sessions for the first single. Andy White on drums

  September 17th

• Single release: Anna (Go To Him), with Arthur Alexandre.  -- Perform at the Queen's Hall, Widnes, with Billy Kramer with the Coasters, and the Vikings

  September 22nd

• Perform at the Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead

  September 23rd

• Perform at the Cavern, with the Dominoes and The Saints Jazz Band

  September 26th

• Noon: perform at the Cavern.  Evening: perform at the Cavern , with the Spiderman and the Dominoes

  September 28th

• Lunch time: perform at the Cavern

  September 30th

• Perform at the Cavern, with Clay Ellis and the Raiders, and the Red River Jazz Men

  October 1st

• A new and revised contract is signed by the Beatles and Brian

  October 2nd

• US release: Chains, with the Cookies

  October 3rd

• Perform at the Cavern, with Billy Kramer and the Coasters, and the Echoes

  October 5th

• UK single release: Love Me Do / P.S. I Love You.
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  -- First radio broadcast of a Beatles record (Radio Luxemburg)

  October 6th

• First autograph signing session of records by the Beatles (Love Me Do/`P.S. I Love You), at the Dawson's Music Shop, Widnes

  October 7th

• Night Cavern session: the Beatles, Red River Jazzmen, the Bluegenes, and the Zodiacs

  October 8th

• Lunch time Cavern session: The Beatles.  -- EMI House, ground floor studio. Recording for Radio Luxembourg's The Friday Spectacular

  October 9th

• 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

  October 10th

• Cavern lunch session: the Beatles . Cavern evening session: the Beatles, the Four Jays, Ken Dallas and the Silhouettes

  October 11th

• Love Me Do enters the favorite songs ranking published by Record Retailer.  -- Cavern lunch session: Freddie and the Dreamers

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  October 12th

• Perform 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

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  October 13th

• Cavern evening session: Zenith Six, the Beatles, Group One

  October 17th

• First TV performance, on TV Granada's People and Places.  -- Cavern Beatles. Cavern evening session: the Beatles, the Big Three, Group One

  October 22nd

• Concert at the Queen's Hall, Widnes, with Lee Curtis and the All Stars, and the Mersey Beats

  October 24th

• Brian writes to Tito Burns, giving him news of Beatles' availability for live shows

  October 25th

• The Playhouse Theatre, Manchester. 8.00-8.45pm. Recording for BBC's Here We Go: Sheila; Love Me Do; A Taste Of Honey;  P.S. I Love You. 1st Ringo session for the BBC. The only live take of P.S. I Love You. The only BBC take of Sheila.  -- 1st ever interview, for the Cleaver and Clatterbridge hospital radio , Wirral. Paul comments: `John Lennon is the leader of the group'

  October 26th

• Concert at the Liverpool Empire,  with Little Richard.  -- 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's Here We Go broadcast (25 October 1962 session, except Sheila).  -- Love Me Do enters the UK charts

  October 28th

• 1st ever concert at the Liverpool Empire Theatre, as principal support act for Little Richard, along with Craig Douglas, Jet Harris, Kenny Lynch, Sounds Incorporated. Hours before, via phone, Brian arranges a show with promoter Arthur Howes for 2 December, birth of the future Epstein-Howes concert promotions team

  October 30th

• Morning. The Beatles fly to Hamburg

  November 1st

• Night. Start of 4th season of performances at the Star Club

  November 2nd

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  November 3rd

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  November 4th

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  November 5th

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  November 7th

• Granada TV broadcasts, on the programme People And Places, a Beatles performance of Love Me Do.  -- Night. Perform at the Star Club

  November 8th

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  November 9th

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  November 10th

• Brian writes to Larry Parnes, asking him for £230.00 per week in reply to his offer of a tour.   -- Night. Perform at the Star Club

  November 11th

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  November 12th

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  November 13th

• Brian signs a contract for the band to perform at the Lewis' 527 club, Liverpool, for £25.00.  -- Night. Perform at the Star Club

  November 14th

• Night. End of performances at the Star Club (4th season)

  November 15th

• The Beatles and Brian return from Hamburg to England.  -- Brian replies to Larry Parnes by letter. Parnes has offered him a tour, £140.00 per week; Brian wants £200.00

  November 16th

• EMI House. Ground floor studio. Record a contribution for the Radio Luxembourg programme The Friday Spectacular.   -- The Beatles visit the editorial headquarters of Disc

  November 17th

• Recording of performances for Granada TV's People And Places, to be broadcast later

  November 18th

• Perform at the Cavern, with the Mersey Beats

  November 19th

• Cavern lunch session: the Beatles

  November 21st

• Perform at the Cavern, with Johnny Templer and The Hi-Cats, and the Zodiacs

  November 22nd

• Concert at the Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead and the Zodiacs

  November 23rd

• Cavern lunch session: the Beatles. Evening: concert at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton.   -- 12.20pm. Saint James's Church Hall. Audition before BBC producers for evaluation of television potential. Failed.

November 24th

• Brian sends a birthday greetings telegram to Pete Best: `Congratulations, many happy returns, all the best, John, Paul, George, Ringo and Brian.'

  November 25th

• Perform at the Cavern, with the Fourmost, the Dennisons, and the Zenith Six

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  November 26th

• 6.00pm. The Beatles go to the studio for a 1-hour rehearsal.  Studio 2. 7.00-10.00pm. Record:
   - Please Please Me [re-make] (takes 1-18)
   - Ask Me Why (takes 1-6)
   - Tip of My Tongue (takes unknown).
  Producer: George Martin
  Engineer: Norman Smith
  First session for Please Please Me / Ask Me Why

  November 27th

• Dick James Music office. Brian discusses a music publishing proposition with Dick James

  November 28th

• Perform at the Cavern, with Remo Four, and Dee Young and the Pontiacs

  November 29th

• Concert at the Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead

  November 30th

• Studio 2 (control room only). Time unknown. Mono mixing:
   - Please Please Me (from unknown take number)
   - Ask Me Why (from take 6)
  Producer: George Martin
  Engineer: Norman Smith
  End of sessions for Please Please Me / Ask Me Why

  December 1st

• 7.30pm-1.00am. Concert at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton,  with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Dale Roberts and the Jaywalkers, Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes, Derry and the Seniors, Steve Day and the Drifters

  December 2nd

• BBC Paris Studio, London. 7.00-8.00pm. Recording for BBC's The Talent Spot: Love Me Do; P.S. I Love You; Twist And Shout.   -- First Beatles show to be promoted jointly by Brian and Arthur Howes

  December 4th

• 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's The Talent Spot broadcast (recorded 2 December 1962).  -- Trip to London. Wembley TV Studios, Wembley, Middlesex. Live appearance on Associated-Rediffusion's Tuesday's Rendezvous

  December 8th

• 7.30pm-2.00am. Concert at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton,  as part of The Davy Jones Show. Davy Jones, supported by the Beatles, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Remo Four, Earl Preston and the T.T.s

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  December 9th

• Brian takes George Martin to the Cavern, to let him see the Beatles live for the first time

  December 10th

• Concert at the Embassy Theatre, Peterborough, with Frank Ifield, Julie Grant and Ted Taylor

  December 13th

• Martin & Epstein go to the Cavern, where they meet Priscilla White (Cilla Black), who receives them in wardrobe, where she works

  December 15th

• 7.30pm-1.00am. Perform at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Derry and the Seniors, Dale Roberts and the Jaywalkers

  December 17th

• Transmision of a performance for Granada TV's People And Places

  December 18th

• Ted Kingsize Taylor starts recordings of groups at the Star Club.    -- The Beatles go to Germany.  Night. Start of performances at the Star Club (5th season)

  December 19th

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  December 20th

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  December 21st

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  December 22nd

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  December 23rd

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  December 24th

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  December 25th

• Night off from performing at the Star Club

  December 26th

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  December 27th

• Night. Perform at the Star Club .   -- Love Me Do, number 17 in Britain

  December 28th

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  December 29th

• Night. Perform at the Star Club

  December 30th

• Night. Perform at the Star Club .  

  December 31st

• Night. End of performances at the Star Club (5th season). Performance recorded by Ted Kingsize Taylor.   -- Ted Kingsize Taylor ends recordings of groups at the Star Club, Hamburg

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