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[In My Life]

March 3rd

1961:  Performance at St. John's Hall, Bootle in Lancashire. 

1962:  Performance at the Cavern, with Jim McHarg's Jazzmen. 

1963:  Live: Gaumont Cinema, Stoke-on-Trent
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/03/03/live-gaumont-cinema-stoke-on-trent/

Helen Shapiro…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303544604576433814108614294.html

…and the song she never recorded
http://www.beatlesebooks.com/misery

1964:  Mixing: I Should Have Known Better, If I Fell, Tell Me Why, And I Love Her, I'm Happy Just To Dance With You, I Call Your Name
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/03/03/mixing-i-should-have-known-better-if-i-fell-tell-me-why-and-i-love-her-im-happy-just-to-dance-with-you-i-call-your-name/

1964:  Filming: A Hard Day's Night
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/03/03/filming-a-hard-days-night-2/



1965: Filming: Help!, the Bahamas
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1965/03/03/filming-help-9/

1967:  Recording, mixing: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1967/03/03/recording-mixing-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds/

1973: George Harrison's album, The Concert for Bangladesh, is awarded the Grammy for 1972 "Album of the Year."

George Harrison - Here Comes The Sun, Concert For Bangladesh

1990:  Paul's concert in Tokyo (`Get Back Tour'). 

[In My Life]

March 4th

1961:  Performance at Aintree Institute in Aintree, Liverpool. 

1962: Performance at the Casbah Coffee Club

1963: Live: Plaza Ballroom, St Helens
This was The Beatles' fifth and final appearance at the Plaza Ballroom in St Helens, Lancashire. They had first performed there on 25 June 1962. This was the first time The Beatles were paid £100 for a performance. As an indication of how far they had come in less than a year, they were paid just £25 for their first show at the venue. Beatles Bible



1964:  Mixing: I Call Your Name
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/03/04/mixing-i-call-your-name/

1964: `Please Please Me' LP, 50th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 15th week (UK New Musical Express chart). 

1964: Filming: A Hard Day's Night
As on the previous day, The Beatles travelled between Acton, in west London, and Minehead in the west of England, filming more of the train sequences in their debut film A Hard Day's Night. The train stopped briefly at Crowcombe Heathfield Station in Somerset, where The Beatles ran and cycled alongside the slow-moving train to taunt a fellow passenger, played by Richard Vernon. BeatlesBible

A Hard Day's Night Train Ride (Mister, Can We Have Our Ball Back?)

1965: Filming: Help!, the Bahamas
This was the last day of filming on Victoria Beach, Rose Island in the Bahamas, for Help!, The Beatles' second feature film. BeatlesBible

1966: UK EP release: `Yesterday'


1966: John Lennon Interview: London Evening Standard, "More Popular Than Jesus" 3/4/1966:
http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1966.0304-beatles-john-lennon-were-more-popular-than-jesus-now-maureen-cleave.html

Maureen Cleave Remembers John Lennon
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/the-beatles/6769205/Nowhere-Boy-Maureen-Cleave-remembers-John-Lennon.html



1967: Michael Bullock is reinstated by Brian as Saville Theatre house manager.  He was fired after the February 19th incident at the Chuck Berry concert.

1969: “It was now almost five weeks since the Get Back recording sessions, in which time, it seems, the Beatles had decided to all but wash their hands of the entire project. One day in early March John and Paul called Glyn Johns into EMI, pointed to a pile of eight-track tapes-the result of those ten January days at Apple- and offered Johns free rein in preparing a finished album. Glyn duly booked time at his favourite venue, Olympic Sound Studios, and set to work.” The Complete Beatles Chronicle, Mark Lewisohn, page 316

Lewisohn goes on to say that new records uncovered at EMI in 1991 contain different and, he feels, more reliable information about Glyn John’s work on this project than he had offered in his 1988 book The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. He also comments on the thoroughness of EMI’s records of all The Beatles recording sessions.

1969: Visitors on the set of “The Magic Christian”:
“On Tuesday, March 4, 1969, Princess Margaret made an unscheduled visit to Twickenham Film Studios to watch Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers during the filming of “The Magic Christian”. She remained on the set from 11am until 5pm. Other visitors to the set that day were Paul and Linda McCartney and Mary Hopkin”. ©Bill Harry/Mersey Beat Ltd.
(This was actually a week before their wedding so she was still Linda Eastman.)

1969: Paul and Linda attended the London premiere of the film "Isadora at the Odeon Theatre, London.

[In My Life]

March 5th

1961: Performance at the Casbah Coffee Club in West Derby, Liverpool. 

1962: Lunchtime performance at the Cavern Club
Night performance at the Kingsway Club, Southport

1963: It was very confusing trying to find the correct date on which Angus McBean captured the photo that graced the cover of “Please Please Me”. Some sources said it happened in February, some say today and some don’t even venture a guess. I think the confusion stems from the fact that there were two sessions with different photographers in and around EMI in February and March. Both involved stairs. I believe this account may be correct:
http://www.norwegianwood.org/beatles/english/albumcovers.html

The site linked below has the photos from today’s photo session with EMI photographer John Dove, taken outside EMI and then later inside, before and during the recording session. There are two pages and also links to mp3s of the session. These are for download but can also be found on YouTube.

http://beatlesource.com/savage/1963/63.03.05%20EMI/63.03.05emi1.html


Recording: From Me to You, Thank You Girl, One After 909
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/03/05/recording-from-me-to-you-thank-you-girl-one-after-909/


1964: Filming: A Hard Day's Night
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/03/05/filming-a-hard-days-night-4/

1965: Filming: Help!, the Bahamas
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1965/03/05/filming-help-11/

@ 3:28

The Beatles - Help 1965 (Part 9)

1969: `Yellow Submarine', 7th week in the ranking (UK New Musical Express chart). 

1990:  Paul's concert in Tokyo (`Get Back Tour'). 

1993: Paul's concert in Perth, Australia. Start of the `New World Tour'. 

[Badgirl66]

Julia,John's Oldest Halfsister  was Born 1957

[In My Life]

March 6th

1961: Lunchtime performance at the Cavern Club.
Night performance at the Liverpool Jazz Society, Temple St., Liverpool

“The LJS date marked the Beatles’ first appearance at what had previously been and would eventually re-emerge as the famous Iron Door Club”
The Complete Beatles Chronicle, Mark Lewisohn, page 41


A Famous Evening Before The Cavern
http://www.rickresource.com/irondoorclub/
Scroll down to click on the article’s title.

Taken by Mike McCartney, most likely at the LJS:


1962: Night performance at the Cavern Club

1963: Radio: Here We Go
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/03/06/radio-here-we-go-2/

1964: Filming: A Hard Day's Night
Day five of the filming for A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles' debut feature film. As on the previous three days, the group boarded a train at Acton Main Line in west London, to film railway scenes for the early part of the film. On this day their train travelled between London and Newton Abbot in the county of Devon. BeatlesBible

1966: Paul McCartney and Jane Asher began a skiing vacation today, during which Paul composed “For No One”.
During March 1966, Paul McCartney took a two week ski vacation in Klosters, Switzerland, with his girlfriend, Jane Asher. It was there that he wrote one of his greatest, yet somewhat overlooked, compositions. The evocative lyrics are descriptive of the end of a relationship and the melody, although simple, fits perfectly with the baroque pop style that was coming into play about this time. In The Beatles Anthology book, John Lennon is quoted as saying it was a nice piece of work and called it one of his favorites of Paul’s.
http://www.thebeatlesrarity.com/2011/08/15/beatles-rarity-of-the-week-for-no-one-vocal-overdub-session-may-1966/

1967: Recording, mixing: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1967/03/06/recording-mixing-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-2/

1970: UK single release: Let It Be
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1970/03/06/uk-single-let-it-be/

1972: Five days after it was granted, the temporary extension of John Lennon's US visitor's visa is cancelled. Efforts to deport Lennon heat up. The Lennons engage specialist immigration lawyer, Leon Wildes, to handle their case. http://history.absoluteelsewhere.net/March/march6.html

[In My Life]

March 7th

1961: Performance at the Casanova Club, Sampson and Barlow's New Ballroom in Liverpool. 

1962: “On March 7 1962 the Beatles entered a BBC studio for the first time. It was the beginning of a long and productive relationship between the group and BBC radio.
Between March 1962 and June 1965 the Beatles appeared on over fifty radio shows and progressed from a group without a record contract to a group with the world at their feet.
In the three years of regular broadcasts for the Beeb, the Beatles performed eighty-eight different songs. Thirty-two of those songs were Lennon-McCartney originals; the others were cover versions-mostly American rhythm and blues songs. Thirty-six  of the songs were never issued on disc by the Beatles.” The Beatles at the Beeb, Kevin Howlett, page 10


The Beatles' first radio session
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1962/03/07/the-beatles-first-radio-session/

The Beatles - Dream Baby ("Teenager's Turn", 7/3/1962)

The Beatles - Memphis, Tennessee ("Teenager's Turn", 7/3/1962)

The Beatles - Please Mister Postman ("Teenager's Turn", 7/3/1962)

http://beatlesource.com/savage/1962/62.03.07%20bbc/62.03.07bbc.html

According to Beatles at the Beeb the band, with Pete Best on drums, also performed “Hello Little Girl”, which was not broadcact.

1963: Live: Mersey Beat Showcase, Nottingham
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/03/07/live-mersey-beat-showcase-nottingham/



“In the audience that night was local lad Rob Taylor, then in his twenties. He reminisced about enjoying the show, but it was an event afterwards that stands out in his mind above everything else:

"When the show had ended I nipped off quickly to the loo before me and my mates left for home. After a while wandering around, I realized I was lost. One of the doors I randomly tried led into a sitting area where I could see some people chatting. When they heard the door open they turned around and I could see that it was the Beatles. It could have been very awkward, me walking in on them like that, but they were very nice about it. They directed me to the toilet and I went on my way." multiplusbooks.com

1964: The Beatles take the weekend off from filming their first movie, "A Hard Day's Night." http://history.absoluteelsewhere.net/March/march7.html

1964: `With The Beatles' number 1, 14th week (UK Record Retailer chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 6th week, 8th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `She Loves You', 7th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `Please Please Me', 6th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `I Saw Her Standing There', 5th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `From Me To You', 1st week in the Top 100 (Billboard). 

1964:  Brian Epstein was interviewed today by Bill Grundy for BBC radio. This interview aired on the March 23rd edition of Frankly Speaking.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/mersey/5184.shtml

1965: Filming: Help!, the Bahamas
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1965/03/07/filming-help-13/

1967:   Recording: Lovely Rita
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1967/03/07/recording-lovely-rita-2/

1967:  Broadcast of Paul McCartney’s interview on the British television program, "So Far Out It's Straight Down".  This was filmed on January 18th.

1970:  `Live Peace In Toronto', 9th week in the ranking (Billboard). `Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)', 3rd week in the ranking (Billboard). 

1982:  “On 7 March 1982, Radio One celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the first Beatles’ radio broadcast with a special programme called “The Beatles at the Beeb”. Many songs, not available on disc but recorded by the BBC, were aired for the first time since the early sixties”. Howlett, page 10

I was hoping they would repeat this tomorrow and put it on their website but I have been unable to find any information suggesting they are:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mc0c5


1988:  CDs release: `The Beatles Past Masters, Volume One', `The Beatles Past Masters, Volume Two'.

[In My Life]

March 8th

1961:  Lunchtime performance at the Cavern Club
Night performances at the Aintree Institute, Aintree, Liverpool and Hambleton Hall, Huyton, Liverpool

1962:  Yesterday’s taping at the BBC for Teenager’s Turn was aired today from 5:00 to 5:30.

1962: Performance at the Storyville Jazz Club, Liverpool

1963:  The prefix “45” is dropped off EMI singles’ catalogue numbers. 

1963: Performance at the Royal Hall, Harrogate, Yorkshire






1963:  `Please Please Me' single number 1, 3rd week (UK New Musical Express chart). 

1965: Help!: Filming continues at the hospital on New Providence Island.

1965: Brian attended the evening presentation of this year's Mecca Carl Alan awards at the Empire Ballroom, Leicester Square, London. He accepted awards from Princess Margaret behalf of the Beatles for best group. The awards were televised by BBC1.  This award is sometimes referred to as the Oscar of the dance world.


1969:`Yellow Submarine' LP, 8th week in the Top 30 (Billboard). 

1969: George Harrison is interviewed for the BBC's Scene and Heard
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1969/03/04/george-harrison-interview-bbc-scene-and-heard/

1971:  UK single release: `Another Day'. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Day_(Paul_McCartney_song)

1982: Startling Studios. Recording basic tracks for Ringo’s  LP `Old Wave'. Producer: Jim Nipar. 




1982: Elton John’s tribute to John Lennon, Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny), was released.

“The track became a Top 20 hit during the spring of 1982, although Elton abandoned performing it live until the mid ‘90s because -- as the artist explained to interviewer David Frost in 1994 -- it was “simply to painful to play.” However, he did begin adding it to his repertoire later in the decade.” http://www.allmusic.com/song/empty-garden-hey-hey-johnny-t1868713

Elton John Empty Garden Live

[In My Life]

March 9th

1962: The Beatles appeared at the Cavern today for both lunchtime and night performances.

1963:  Live: Granada Cinema, London

Just five days after their tour with Helen Shapiro ended, The Beatles embarked on another. Their second theatre tour began at the Granada Cinema on Barking Road, East Ham, London

http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/03/09/beatles-second-theatre-tour-begins-granada-cinema-london/






multiplusbooks


1964:  NEMS Enterprises moves location to Sutherland House, 5-6 Argyll Street, 5th floor, London. 

1964: Filming: A Hard Day's Night
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/03/09/filming-a-hard-days-night-6/

The Beatles' final day of filming in the Bahamas for Help!, their second feature film, involved a return to Paradise Island for some final scenes. The following day they left the islands to return to England.
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1965/03/09/filming-help-15/

I’m not sure who everyone is in these movies but Dick Lester, director of Help!, appears at 3:28.

The Beatles in the Bahamas filming "Help!' February '65

Murray the K was always turning up…
http://beatlechat.blogspot.com/2009/11/murray-k-in-bahamas.html

1966: `Rubber Soul', 14th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). 

1967:   Recording: Getting Better
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1967/03/09/recording-getting-better/

[In My Life]

March 10th

1961: Lunchtime performance at the Cavern Club
Night performances at the Grosvenor Ballroom, Liscard, Wallesy and St. John’s Hall, Tuebrook, Liverpool
The Wallasey dance was the last date arranged by Allan Williams. (He hadn’t booked them anywhere other than at this hall since their return from Hamburg three months previously.) The Complete Beatles Chronicle, Mark Lewisohn, page 41

1962: Performance at the Youth Club, St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church Hall, Tranmere, Birkenhead

This ticket sold for $1,195 at auction in 2007.

HeritageAuctions
http://entertainment.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=648&lotNo=23303

1963: Hippodrome Theater, Hurst St., Birmingham, Warks
Second date of the Roe/Montez theater package tour.


Although The Beatles hadn't been placed on the top of the bill prior to the tour, the audience reaction after the first night in London ensured that the group closed the show on this and all subsequent tour dates. BeatlesBible.com

1964: Filming: A Hard Day's Night
On this day Ringo Starr filmed part of his solo sequence for The Beatles' debut film A Hard Day's Night. The location was the Turks Head pub on Winchester Road in Twickenham, Middlesex. BeatlesBible.com

Ringo Starr lost (scene from "A Hard Day's Night")

1964: Recording, mixing: Can't Buy Me Love, Long Tall Sally, I Call Your Name, You Can't Do That, Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand, Sie Liebt Dich
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/03/10/recording-mixing-cant-buy-me-love-long-tall-sally-i-call-your-name-you-cant-do-that-komm-gib-mir-deine-hand-sie-liebt-dich/


1965: Travel: Bahamas to London

Following a fortnight of filming on New Providence Island, Bahamas, The Beatles began their long journey back to London, flying from Nassau International Airport.
They arrived in London Airport the following day at 7.05am.

1965:  Brian reveals his plan to film the Shea Stadium concert. 

1967:  Recording: Getting Better
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1967/03/10/recording-getting-better-2/

1969: Mixing: Get Back, Teddy Boy, Two Of Us, Dig A Pony, I've Got A Feeling, The Long And Winding Road, Let It Be, Rocker, Save The Last Dance For Me, Don't Let Me Down, For You Blue, The Walk
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1969/03/10/mixing-get-back-teddy-boy-two-of-us-dig-a-pony-ive-got-a-feeling-the-long-and-winding-road-let-it-be-rocker-save-the-last-dance-for-me-dont-let-me-down-for-you-blue-the-walk/
 
1971:  This is the alleged date on which John may or may not have thrown a brick through a window of Paul's Cavendish Avenue house.

1971:  A court names J. D. Spooner as trustee of the Beatles goods. 

1975:  US release of John’s single “Stand by Me'/`Move Over Ms. L.”. 

[In My Life]

I just noticed something; this is the same picture that's the avatar for this particular part of the forums. 

[In My Life]

March 11th

1961: The Beatles performed the “Beatles Farewell Show” at Aintree Institute in Aintree, Liverpool with the Night Boppers, Ray and the Del Renas, the Cliff Roberts Rockers and the Ravens. Then they performed at the Liverpool Jazz Society in Liverpool with Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Remo Four, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, the Big Three, Dale Roberts and the Jaywalkers, Derry and the Seniors, Ray and the Del Renas, the Pressman, Johnny Rocco and the Jets, and Faron and the Tempest Tornadoes. 

“The LJS engagement was a true innovation on the part of Sam Leach, certainly the most adventurous and ambitious rock dance promoter in the Merseyside area: a 12-group, 12-hour, all-night session, commencing at 8.00 Saturday night and finishing at 8.00 Sunday morning…..Although the attendance capacity of the Temple Street cellar was 1000, approximately 2000 people saw at least some part of the show. Leach was to hold similar marathon “Big Beat Sessions” over the next two years at several different venues, most (although not all) of which featured the Beatles as the main attraction.” The Complete Beatles Chronicle, Mark Lewisohn, page 41


1963: EMI House, ground floor studio. Recording for Radio Luxembourg's `The Friday Spectacular'. 

The Beatles' UK tour with Tommy Roe and Chris Montez had a rest day on 10 and 11 March 1963. On this second day, however, the group made an appearance - their fourth and final one - on the Radio Luxembourg show The Friday Spectacular. The group was interviewed at EMI House in London's Manchester Square. The studio versions of Please Please Me and Ask Me Why were played in between sections of interview, and the show was broadcast from 10pm on 15 March. BeatlesBible.com

1963: Brian Epstein's letter to Stowe schoolboy David Moores:

BE/J/BA:

11th March 1963


Dear David,

Thank you for your recent letter, enclosing £1. 10. 6 for the BEATLES L.P. Record; I am enclosing your receipt and, as soon as the record is available, a copy will be sent to you.

We have today written to the Green Man Hotel at Syresham to see if they can accommodate the group and, if this is possible, it would be appreciated if you could show them the way; after which they will take you back to school.

With regard to autographs, the boys will be very pleased to sign these for you during the time they are at the [?]

Looking forward to seeing you.

Yours sincerely,
Brian Epstein.
multiplusbooks

1964: Filming: A Hard Day's Night
This was The Beatles' first day in Twickenham Film Studios, where they would later shoot Help!, Let It Be and a number of promotional videos and solo projects. On this day The Beatles worked from 8am to 10pm, filming the I Should Have Known Better sequence. A set was built to resemble a train guard's van, which was rocked while The Beatles mimed to the song. At one point, however, director Richard Lester had to stop the shoot because the technicians were rocking the set in time with the song.

I Should Have Known Better (High Quality)

1964: `Please Please Me' LP, 51st week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 16th week (UK New Musical Express chart). 

1969: Paul McCartney and George Harrison produce a Jackie Lomax session
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1969/03/11/paul-mccartney-george-harrison-produce-jackie-lomax-session/

Jackie Lomax "Thumbin' A Ride"

1969: Mixing: Two of Us, The Long And Winding Road, Lady Madonna
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1969/03/11/mixing-two-of-us-the-long-and-winding-road-lady-madonna/


1970: US single release: Let It Be
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1970/03/11/us-single-let-it-be/

1997: Paul was knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II
http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9703/11/mccartney/

[In My Life]

March 12th

1961:  Performances at the Casbah Coffee Club and the Cassanova Club, Liverpool

1962: Performance at the Kingsway Club, Southport

1963:  Granada Cinema, Bedford
Back to the Roe/Montez tour. This was a three-man Beatles performance because a heavy cold kept John in bed. The songs, particularly “Please Please Me”, were re-arranged so that George and Paul could take over his vocal lines. The Complete Beatles Chronicle, Mark Lewisohn, page 103



1963:  “Here We Go”, taped on March 6th for the BBC was aired today from 5:00-5:30.

1964: Filming: A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles filmed the hotel room scenes of A Hard Day's Night on this day at Twickenham Film Studios.

Fan Mail

1964:  Studio 3 (control room only). 10.00am-12.00noon. Stereo mixing: `Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand' (from edit of takes 5, 7); `Sie Liebt Dich' (from take 14). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: not assigned. Remixes of `Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand' and `Sie Liebt Dich' for the US and Germany. 

1965:  The New York Daily news published an interview with Brian in which he states that “ten years from today The Beatles will still be popular and that The Rolling Stones are “a fine group”.

1969: George and Pattie Harrison's home is raided by the Drugs Squad
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1969/03/12/george-pattie-harrison-drugs-squad-raid/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Pilcher

1969: Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1969/03/12/paul-mccartney-marries-linda-eastman/

Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman at Marylebone Register Office. Paul's brother Mike is best man, Mal Evans is a witness, and Linda's daughter, Heather, is flower girl. Magistrate E.R. Sanders performs the ceremony, which is followed by a luncheon at the Ritz Hotel. None of the other Beatles or family members are in attendance (they weren't invited). A throng of crying female fans waited outside for the newlywed couple to make their way to their car. (The fact that Paul was no longer a bachelor was not well-received at the time.)

http://history.absoluteelsewhere.net/March/march12.html

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/beatle-paul-weds/query/paul+McCartney+wedding

1969:  Mixing: The Long and Winding Road, Let It Be
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1969/03/12/mixing-the-long-and-winding-road-let-it-be/

1969:  `Yellow Submarine', 8th and last week in the ranking (UK New Musical Express chart). 

1971: A court ruling grants Paul McCartney's request that a receiver be appointed to control the finances of The Beatles & Company. James Douglas Spooner is appointed to that role. http://history.absoluteelsewhere.net/March/march12.html

[In My Life]

March 13th

1958: Performance by the Quarrey Men at the Morgue Skiffle Cellar, Oakhill Park, Broadgreen, Liverpool

This was opening night for the short-lived venue run by 18 year old Alan Caldwell. He and his group, the Texans, as well as several other local groups were on the bill. This dark, airless club closed by April 22nd but Alan Williams’ Beatles connection didn’t end there. The following year Ringo Starr joined the band which later became known as Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. They went on to play with The Beatles at the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg, Germany. And then there’s Alan’s sister Iris, who dated both George and Paul. (ML)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Storm

1961:  Lunchtime performance at the Cavern Club

Night performance at the Liverpool Jazz Society in Liverpool:
"Beat Night" from 7:30pm til midnight with The Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers and Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes
http://www.rickresource.com/irondoorclub/irondoorclubtimeline.html


1962: Lunchtime performance at the Cavern Club.

1963: Recording, mixing: Thank You Girl
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/03/13/recording-mixing-thank-you-girl/

1963:  Live: Rialto Theatre, York
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/03/13/live-rialto-theatre-york-2/



1964:  Brian flew to the Netherlands to arrange the Beatles’ summer tour. 

1964: Mixing: Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand, Sie Liebt Dich

http://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/03/13/mixing-komm-gib-mir-deine-hand-sie-liebt-dich/

1964:  Filming: A Hard Day's Night

Following two days at Twickenham Film Studios, work on A Hard Day's Night moved to Gatwick Airport. The Beatles arrived at 10am. The first scene to be shot was the one which closes the film, in which the group run to board a helicopter and reams of signed promotional photographs are scattered as they ascend.
A Hard Day's Night (End) (Embedding disabled, limit reached)


In the afternoon The Beatles were filmed fooling around on a helipad. A helicopter was flown overhead, with an airborne cameraman filming their antics. The footage was later incorporated into one of the film's two Can't Buy Me Love scenes. BeatlesBible.com
Can't Buy Me Love - A Hard Day's Night (5/10) Movie CLIP (1964) HD (Embedding disabled, limit reached)


1965:  Travel: London to Austria
Two days after arriving back in the UK from the Bahamas, The Beatles boarded the 11am flight from London Airport to Salzburg, Austria to continue filming Help! Four thousand fans witnessed their arrival in Salzburg Airport, as did dozens of journalists and film crews. The group held a press conference at a nearby hotel before checking into the Hotel Edelweiss in the village of Obertauern. BeatlesBible.com
The Beatles leaving for Austria (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

More pictures here:
http://beatle-girls.blogspot.com/2009/07/trip-to-austria-1965.html

1965:  `Eight Days a Week' number 1, 1st week (Billboard). 

1967: Recording: Good Morning Good Morning
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1967/03/13/recording-good-morning-good-morning-2/

1969: From  http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/archive/index.php/t-195205.html:
 …according to Lewisohn's Complete Beatles Recording Sessions p164 - Friday 17th January, 1969:

For there remains in the EMI library a master tape for a seven-inch mono EP (recently released on Mono Masters), to run at 331/2 rpm (LP Speed), compiled and banded on 13th March 1969 by Abbey Road employee Edward Gadsby-Toni, with the following line up:

Side A

1. Only A Northern Song
2. Hey Bulldog
3. Across The Universe

Side B

1. All Together Now
2. It's All Too Much

1969:  Mixing: I've Got A Feeling, Dig It, Maggie Mae, Shake Rattle And Roll, Kansas City, Miss Ann, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Blue Suede Shoes, You Really Got A Hold On Me

http://www.beatlesbible.com/1969/03/13/mixing-ive-got-a-feeling-dig-it-maggie-mae-shake-rattle-and-roll-kansas-city-miss-ann-lawdy-miss-clawdy-blue-suede-shoes-you-really-got-a-hold-on-me/


1976: Paul’s father Jim McCartney died on this date. 

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=50140245



1981: US single release of John’s “Watching the Wheels”/”Yes I'm Your Angel”. 
 

[In My Life]

March 14th

1961:  Lunchtime performance at the Cavern Club. 

1962: Night performance at the Cavern Club.

1963:  First recording session of Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas. Recording: `Do You Want To Know A Secret'. 

1963:  Editing, mixing: From Me to You
Although The Beatles were not present, George Martin oversaw mixes of From Me To You during a three-hour session on this day. Before he could do so, however, final edits were made to the song. It was then mixed for mono and stereo ahead of its 11 April release. BeatlesBible.com

1963:  Live: Gaumont Cinema, Wolverhampton
John Lennon missed a third concert on this day due to his persistent cold. He rejoined The Beatles onstage the following night in Bristol. The Beatles' setlist on this tour, in which they appeared on a bill with Tommy Roe and Chris Montez, was: Love Me Do, Misery, A Taste Of Honey, Do You Want To Know A Secret, Please Please Me and I Saw Her Standing There.The group returned to Wolverhampton on 19 November 1963, again playing at the Gaumont Cinema. BeatlesBible.com


1964:  `With The Beatles' number 1, 15th week (UK Record Retailer chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 7th and last week; 9th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `She Loves You' number 2, 8th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `Please Please Me' number 3, 7th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `I Saw Her Standing There' number 15, 6th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `From Me To You' number 73, 2nd week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `Twist And Shout' number 55, 1st week in the Top 100 (Billboard). 

1964:  Video tape of The Beatles’ February 11th concert at the Washington Coliseum was shown in select theaters across the United States via closed circuit TV.


In mid-March 1964, the CBS filming of the Beatles’ live D.C. show – together with separate footage of performances by the Beach Boys and Lesley Gore – was shown in selected U.S. movie theaters as a closed-circuit concert. Billed in advertising as — “The Beatles: Direct From Their First American Concert” — the complete 90-minute film was then transmitted to selected U.S. theaters over telephone lines on four separate occasions over two weekends in March.



The first round of closed circuit concerts occurred on Saturday, March 14, 1964, and among the receiving theater locations on that day were: the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the Hippodrome Theater in Cleveland, Ohio; the El Monte Legion Stadium in El Monte, California; the Public Auditorium in Portland, Oregon.
http://www.losboulevardosmessageboard.com/showthread.php?1080-The-town-I-live-in-OR-Memories-of-El-Monte

I sure hope Chuck and Chick found some wheels and made the scene…
Beatles Original TV Commercial 1964 (Embedding disabled, limit reached)


1964:  Brian returns from Holland to England. 

Filming: Help!, Austria
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1965/03/14/filming-help-16/

1968:   BBC-TV's Top of The Pops airs the promotional video for "Lady Madonna"

It’s really “Hey Bulldog”
The Beatles - Lady Madonna (Promo #3) [HiQ] (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

 1970:  `Let It Be' enters the ranking as number 6 (new record), 1st week in the Top 30 (Billboard). `Live Peace In Toronto', 10th week in the ranking (Billboard). `Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)' number 1, 1st week; 4th week in the ranking (Billboard).   

[In My Life]

March 15th

1961: Lunchtime performance at the Cavern Club
Afternoon performance at the Liverpool Jazz Society

After the Beatles’ lunchtime spot at the Cavern Club (12.00 noon-1:00 pm on this occasion), they shifted their equipment over Victoria Street and into the Liverpool Jazz Society for a five-hour afternoon session alternating with Rory Storm and the Wild Ones (Rory plus assorted guest musicians) and Gerry and the Pacemakers. The Beatles’ first appearance was at 2:00 pm.
The Complete Beatles Chronicle, Mark Lewisohn, page 42

1962: Lunchtime performance at the Cavern Club
Night performance at the Storyville Jazz Club, Liverpool (formerly known as the Liverpool Jazz Club) This was their last performance there before their April return to Hamburg:

The Beatles' final performance was on March 15, 1962 which was dubbed the "Beatles' Farewell Party." Sue Shead remembers

"We were in the coffee bar area on the evening the Beatles were given the "Freedom of the City." Everyone was rushing out to Dale Street to see them going past. But we were upset with them, as they'd recently relocated to the London area and we figured we were their original fans and their "roots" so we stayed put. The year before, we'd queued all night outside the Empire to get tickets to see them. How fickle."
http://www.rickresource.com/irondoorclub/irondoorclub3.html

1963:   `Please Please Me' single number 1, 4th and last week (UK New Musical Express chart). 

1963:  Colston Hall, Colston St., Bristol
John resumed performing with the Roe/Montez tour. I wonder if he caught that cold from Helen Shapiro?


1964:  Day 2 of “The Beatles: Direct From Their First American Concert”

The following day, on Sunday, March 15, 1964, the show went out again to a number of locations, including: the Norva Theater in Norfolk, Virginia; Lake Theater in Oak Park, Illinois; Fox Theater in San Jose, California; and the Washington Coliseum in Washington, D.C. The Lyric Theater in Indianapolis, Indiana also received the show on March 14th and March 15th, as did a big screen theater at the State Fair Coliseum in Dallas, Texas.The total audience for the special closed-circuit broad- casts of the Beatles’ concert film was expected to exceed 500,000. The shows were seen in more than 100 theaters in the U.S. and Canada. The promoters – identified in advertising as the National General Corporation, or their subsidiary, Theater Color Vision — made millions. One 1964 estimate placed the take at some $4 million, or roughly $30 million in today’s money. This Beatles’ concert showing was apparently the first use of closed-circuit broadcasting for a rock concert, as previously this closed-circuit theater network had been used only for championship boxing matches.



http://wogew.blogspot.com/2010/12/washington-goes-big-screen.html

1965: The Beatles filming "Help!" in Austria: this day and the next spent shooting various scenes cavorting in the snow and on a ski lift.
http://history.absoluteelsewhere.net/March/march15.html

1965:  Studio 2 (control room only). 10.00-11.00am. Mono mixing: `Ticket To Ride' (remix 2, from take 2). Producer: not assigned; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: unknown. Mix of `Ticket To Ride' for United Artists. 

1966: The Beatles fail to win any Grammy Awards
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1966/03/15/the-beatles-fail-to-win-any-grammy-awards/

1967:  Studio 2. 7.00pm-1.30am. Recording: `Untitled' (working title of `Within You Without You') (take 1). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Richard Lush. Visit at the studio: Peter Blake. 

1968: In Rishikesh, The Beatles serenade Beach Boy Mike Love with a specially composed ditty Happy Birthday, Michael Love, which is preceded by another impromptu tune called Spiritual Regeneration. These acoustic performances are preserved on tape. By now, the mood of The Beatles at the Maharishi’s ashram is turning restless: Ringo Starr is missing his home cooking, and John Lennon is starting to find that the clearing of his mind, induced by meditation, is leading as often to cynicism as to inner peace.
http://history.absoluteelsewhere.net/March/march15.html

The Beatles - Spiritual Regeneration (Very Rare Bootleg) (Embedding disabled, limit reached)



1968:  UK single release: `Lady Madonna'/`The Inner Light'.


1969:  `Yellow Submarine' LP, 9th week in the Top 30 (Billboard). 

[In My Life]

March 16th

1961:  Performance at noontime at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. 

1963:  Radio: Saturday Club
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/03/16/radio-saturday-club-3/

The Beatles Radio Show - Saturday Club - march 16 , 1963 (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

1963:  Concert at the City Hall, Sheffield (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour). 

This autographed program from this show was discovered 45 years later in an attic:


http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/sheffield-beatles-memorabilia-up-for-grabs-1-244669


1964: Filming: A Hard Day's Night
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/03/16/filming-a-hard-days-night-11/

1964:  US single release: `Can't Buy Me Love'/`You Can't Do That'.



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1964:  US gold certification: `Can't Buy Me Love'/`You Can't Do That'. 

1966: Filming: Help!, Austria
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1965/03/16/filming-help-18/

The Beatles with their skiing doubles:


1966:  `Rubber Soul', 15th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). 
 
1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono fly to Paris (moved from 3/14)
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1969/03/16/john-lennon-and-yoko-ono-fly-to-paris/

1972:  John Lennon receives a deportation order to leave the United States; he appeals immediately. He and Yoko are able to persuade the US Immigration authorities to let them stay for another four weeks. Outside the court, John says: “We want to stay permanently because New York is the center of the earth; and also because we want to find Yoko’s daughter, Kyoko.” http://history.absoluteelsewhere.net/March/march16.html

[pinio65]

13 January 1962
First mention of The Beatles name in America was January 13. 1962 issue of Cash Box.
 International Section: ,,A new rock' n' roll team Tony Sheridan and The Beatles make their debut on the Polydor label with My Bonnie. Sheridan was discovered by Polydor producer Bert Kaempfert while playing night spots in Hamburg's famous Reeperbahn”

[In My Life]

March 17th

1944:  Patricia Anne Boyd was born on this date and named for the holiday.

Kenya, 1952 Pattie with Jenny, Colin, Paula, and their mother Diana in Kenya in 1952:

http://iwasdreamingofthepast.blogspot.com

Celebrating her birthday in India:


1961:  Performance at Mossway Hall in Croxteth, Liverpool and at the Liverpool Jazz Society in Liverpool. 

1962:  Night performance at the Village Hall in Knotty Ash, Liverpool


Following this show The Beatles attended an engagement party for the event’s promoter, Sam Leach and his fiancée  Joan McEvoy.


More pictures and some of the juicy details:
http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1962/62.03.17%20huyton/62.03.17huyton.html

1963:  Live: Embassy Cinema, Peterborough
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/03/17/live-embassy-cinema-peterborough-2/


Pat tells how she got these great autographs that night:
“I went to see the Beatles in early 1963 live on stage (as a support act) at the Embassy Theatre in Peterborough. After the show my friend and I heard that they were in a pub near the theatre. We found the 'Fab Four' stood by the bar having a drink. They were pleased to give me their autographs as they were relatively new on the scene at that time.”
Multiplus books


1964: Filming: A Hard Day's Night
 http://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/03/17/filming-a-hard-days-night-12/

1965: Help! filming:
Location: Obertauern, Austria 
    Scenes: 
        Curling sequence 
        Filming amid bushes 
http://www.jibboo.com/beatles/help/helpsched.htm

curling scene from "Help!" (Embedding disabled, limit reached)


1967:  Recording: She's Leaving Home
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1967/03/17/recording-shes-leaving-home/

Harpist Shelia Bromberg talks about the recording session:
Sgt Pepper 'She's Leaving Home' Harpist Meets Ringo Starr (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

1969:  US single release of the Eric Clapton/George Harrison penned song “Badge”. George also played rhythm guitar but was credited as   "L'Angelo Misterioso" for contractual reasons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badge_(song)

Cream - Badge (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

1970:  US gold certification: single `Let It Be'. US gold certification: “Live Peace in Toronto 1969”. 

[In My Life]

March 18th

1962: Performance at the Casbah Coffee Club, West Derby, Liverpool

1963:  Concert at the Regal Cinema, Gloucester, Gloucestershire (Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour). 





From the tour; not sure of the exact date:


http://wogew.blogspot.com/2009/01/montezroe-tour-march-1963.html

1964:  `Please Please Me' LP, 52nd week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 17th week (UK New Musical Express chart). 

1964:  Filming: A Hard Day's Night
Day 13 of the shoot for A Hard Day's Night took The Beatles back to Twickenham Film Studios, where they filmed the dressing room sequences.

1964: Public Ear Interview
During a day of filming at Twickenham, The Beatles used some of their time off from filming to record a number of items for the BBC radio program The Public Ear, to be broadcast from 3:00 to 4:00 PM on March 22, 1964. It was also broadcast on the British Forces Broadcasting Service at the same time in West Germany. The Beatles interviewed themselves, instead of having a BBC announcer do so. The program opened with a letter being read from a fan, who suggested that listeners be told in advance were The Beatles to appear on the program, so fans could contact each other and let each other know to tune in. After reading this letter, Ringo announced "We're on today, later on, so don't forget, get on the phone and get your friends listening!" When The Beatles actually did appear on the program later on, George interviewed the other Beatles, faking a plum accent and discussing John's book, In His Own Write, first with Ringo, and then with John. John then read an excerpt from his book, the poem 'Alec Speaking.' George then talked about the film A Hard Day's Night with Paul, then being joined by Ringo, who read the cast and production credits. He credited themselves as producers, along with the real incumbent, John Fawcett Wilson. http://www.beatleswiki.org/wiki/Recording_for_The_Public_Ear_-_March_18,_1964 Source LEWISOHN M., 1992, The Complete Beatles Chronicle

Interview transcript:
http://dmbeatles.com/interviews.php?interview=13
 
1965: Filming for Help!:
“…another busy day, filming at an Olympic jump location, on the mountainside and in an après-ski cellar… The Complete Beatles, Mark Lewisohn, page 186

1967:  (John)Lennon bought Dorinish Island off the Mayo coast (on this date) in 1967 and got planning permission from Mayo County Council to build a house there for himself and Yoko Ono.

Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/John-Lennons-Irish-island---Beatle-legend-was-ready-to-settle-in-his-Irish-home-says-lawyer-104403684.html#ixzz1pQKHihF6


1968: UK single release: `Lady Madonna'/`The Inner Light'.

1969:   John and Yoko were featured on the cover of Look magazine and in an article, which is summarized here;
http://collectingoldmagazines.com/3118/look-magazine-march-18-1969/


1969:   Lower Richmond Road, London
Location filming with Ringo for The Magic Christian, shooting outside the Star and Garter public house, by the River Thames in Putney, with Spike Milligan acting the part of a ticket-eating traffic warden. Lewisohn, page 317

And yet again :
The Magic Christian (1969): Yellow Cash Road (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

1969:  George and Pattie Harrison appear in court on drugs charges
George Harrison and his wife Pattie had an initial court appearance following their drugs bust six days earlier. The hearing took place at Esher and Walton Magistrates' Court. The couple charged for cannabis possession, and were released on the surety of Apple's press officer Derek Taylor. They returned for the actual trial on 31 March 1969. The court closed in 1993 and is now a youth club and theatre school. BeatlesBible.com

At least it wasn’t on her birthday.

[In My Life]

March 19th

1955:   Brian is appointed a director of S. E. Gadd Limited, one of two companies controlling the furniture dealing side of the family business. 

1961:  Performance at the Casbah Coffee Club in West Derby, Liverpool. 

1962: Performance at the Kingsway Club, Southport

1963:  Performance at the Regal Cinema, Cambridge
(Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour). 

1964:  Filming for The Beatles' first movie, "A Hard Day's Night" continues at Twickenham Film Studios. Shooting of the "TV studio corridor" scenes (John Lennon meets a woman who thinks he looks like "him," only to change her mind, which causes John to walk away muttering and grousing). On the movie set The Beatles tape a radio interview for the BBC program "Movie-Go-Round," for broadcast on April 12. At lunchtime The Beatles rush to the Dorchester Hotel to receive an award, and that evening they tape an appearance for the most famous pop show in the UK, "Top of the Pops". An exhausting day for the much-in-demand Beatles.
http://history.absoluteelsewhere.net/March/march19.html

A hard days night - "Mistaken identity" (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

The Beatles with Lyn Fairhurst, Movie-Go-Round interview


http://beatlechat.blogspot.com/2009/12/ben-hair.html

1964:  The Beatles are given Variety Club awards
On this day The Beatles attended the 12th annual luncheon held by the Variety Club of Great Britain, where leader of the opposition Harold Wilson presented them with the Show Business Personalities of 1963 award. The ceremony took place at the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane, London, and was filmed by a number of TV and news organisations. The BBC made a 30-minute show out of the footage, which was screened from 10.30pm the following day.

The Beatles and the Taxman:
The Beatles - 1964 Variety Club of Great Britain Award Ceremony (Embedding disabled, limit reached)


1964: The Beatles' first Top of The Pops appearance
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/03/19/television-top-of-the-pops/


1965: Filming: Help!, Austria
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1965/03/19/filming-help-21/

1996:  CD release: `Anthology 2'.