Beatles history - 1966 July
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Friday |
2nd concert at the Budokan Hall (Martial Arts Hall), Tokyo. Filmed. |
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Saturday |
From Japan, The Beatles send a telegram to EMI with their final decision concerning next LP's title: `Revolver'. | |
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2
Saturday |
``Yesterday'... And Today', 2nd week in the Top 30 (Billboard). | |
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2
Saturday |
3rd and last concert at the Budokan Hall (Martial Arts Hall), Tokyo. | |
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Saturday |
Brian signs Lomax Alliance to Nemperor Artists. | |
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3
Sunday |
Trip to Manila. On arriving, from the airport they are taken to a dock and separated from their luggage for half an hour. | |
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3
Sunday |
The New York `Times Magazine' publishes an article about the Beatles by Maureen Cleave. | |
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4
Monday |
Brian decides that the Beatles should not attend a reception organized by Imelda Marcos. 4.00pm. Concert at the Araneta Collosseum, Manila. 8.30pm. Concert at the Araneta Collosseum, Manila. | |
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Tuesday |
The Beatles take the KLM flight number 862, from Manila to New Delhi. | |
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6
Wednesday |
Britain's Embassy at Manila protests after the incidents occurring yesterday, during the Beatles leave from Philippines. | |
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8
Friday |
UK EP release: `Nowhere Man'.
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8
Friday |
Arrival at the London Airport, with Brian, who says: `I am cancelling tours to the Philippines by Cilla Black and Sounds Incorporated'. 6.30am. Press conference at the London Airport.
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Friday |
US gold certification: ``Yesterday'... And Today'. | |
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8
Friday |
The Cyrkle reach number 2 on the Billboard chart with `Red Rubber Ball'. | |
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9
Saturday |
According to Epstein, `You Make Me Feel Like Someone', with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas is a `Top Ten certainty'. | |
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9
Saturday |
``Yesterday'... And Today', 3rd week in the Top 30 (Billboard). | |
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Monday |
It is reported that the company that took the Beatles to Manila was adjudicated a bankrupt. | |
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11
Monday |
Brian buys Bernard Delfont and Tom Arnold's part of Saville Theatre shares, getting complete control over its leasing. | |
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12
Tuesday |
The Beatles receive 3 1965 Ivor Novello prizes: `Yesterday' (most broadcast song), `We Can Work It Out' (most sold song) and `Help!' (2nd most sold song). | |
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14
Thursday |
`Revolver' goes to the disc cutting room. George Martin phones Geoff Emerick, telling him to replace remix 11 of `Tomorrow Never Knows', marked `best', by the original best, remix 8. | |
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14
Thursday |
US gold certification for `Paperback Writer'/`Rain'. | |
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15
Friday |
Klaus Voorman is released from his NEMS contract by Epstein so that he can join Manfred Mann as bassist. | |
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15
Friday |
NEMS, acting as agents, cancels Freddie and the Dreamers' concerts in the Philippines, due to have started on 5 August. | |
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15
Friday |
Georgie Fame's management decline an offer from Epstein for Fame to star in an autumn concert tour of the UK. | |
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16
Saturday |
``Yesterday'... And Today', 4th week in the Top 30 (Billboard). | |
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18
Monday |
Epstein announces that Cilla Black is to co-star with Frankie Howerd in the review `Way Out In Piccadilly'. | |
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Friday |
Brian, suffering from glandular fever, cancels a trip to the USA planned for the weekend of 23-24 July. | |
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22
Friday |
Photographer Michael Cooper opens his studio at Chelsea Manor Studios, London. | |
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23
Saturday |
Harold Wilson re-opens the Cavern Club. Brian sends a congratulatory telegram and declines an invitation to attend the proceedings. | |
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23
Saturday |
Brian was supposed to fly to USA this day to prepare the next Beatles North American tour. | |
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23
Saturday |
``Yesterday'... And Today', 5th week in the Top 30 (Billboard). | |
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24
Sunday |
Brian was supposed to fly back to England from the USA this day, a trip to prepare the next Beatles' North American tour. | |
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Saturday |
Brian goes to Portmeirion village, North Wales, with George Martin, to recover from his glandular fever. | |
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30
Saturday |
``Yesterday'... And Today', 6th week in the Top 30 (Billboard). | |
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Sunday |
US `Datebook' magazine publishes John declarations on Christianism. |
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