1965, October

50 years ago today people in US were listening to Yesterday by The Beatles. In UK Get Off Of My Cloud by The Rolling Stones Both in the top 5 hits.

50 years ago today people in the US were listening to Yesterday by The Beatles. In UK Tears by Ken Dodd was in the top 5 hits. 

Studio Two, EMI Studios, London

Vocal repair work was effected onto take two of "We Can Work It Out" between 2:00 and 4:00 pm, and from then until 5:00 both this song and also "Day Tripper" were mixed twice into mono - once for record release and once for TV play-back on November 1-2.

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Studio One, EMI Studios, London

A rough mono mix of "We Can Work It Out", made between 5:00 and 5:30 pm, not for record release but for the Beatles to mime to during the video-taping of The Music Of Lennon & McCartney.

It was only when they heard a playback of this mix-for-TV that the Beatles real...

The number one song in the US on October 27, 1965 was Yesterday by The Beatles.

Stereo mixes of "Drive My Car", "Day Tripper", "In My Life", "If I Needed Someone", "Norwegian Wood", and "Nowhere Man", were prepared by George Martin between 10:00 am and 12:00 pm this day in studio one at EMI.

Although the Beatles were beginning to attend mix sessions they certainly missed this ...

Studio One, EMI Studios, London

Mono mixes of "Drive My Car", "In My Life", "If I Needed Someone", "Day Tripper", "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" and "Nowhere Man", produced by George Martin from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm, probably without the Beatles in attendance.

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Studio Two, EMI Studios, London

Though stacked with potential, Paul's new song "I'm Looking Through You", wasn't easy to realize on tape. The Beatles spent the first half of this nine-hour session, 2:30-7:00 pm, recording one take of the song's rhythm track and overdubbing onto this, then spent the...

On this date, 50 years ago, people in US were listening to Yesterday by The Beatles.

Studio Two, EMI Studios, London

The day began with a 10:30-11:30 morning session - probably without the Beatles in attendance - during which George Martin filled the hole in the middle of the otherwise complete "In My Life" with a beautiful baroque-style piano solo. To achieve the desired texture h...

Studio Two, EMI Studios, London

"This Bird Has Flown", now "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), was re-made from start to finish during the afternoon, 2:30-7:00 pm, in just three more takes. Without breaking for dinner, the Beatles then began to tackle John's "Nowhere Man". Two takes were attempt...

Studio Two, EMI Studios, London

The song which shared with "Day Tripper" the A-Side of the first single, "We Can Work It Out", was begun and virtually completed (but for a little overdubbing on October 29th) during two Abbey Road sessions this day, 2:30-6:30 and 7:00-11:45 pm. Once again, it displa...

The Beatles had recorded messages for their fan club in 1963 and 1964, however, it took them two attempts to complete the 1965 recording, the first of which was made on this day.

The recording took place at Marquee Studio in London. Situated at 10 Richmond Mews, the studio was affiliated to the Ma...

Studio Two, EMI Studios, London

"If I Needed Someone" was the first priorty of this afternoon session, from 2:30 to 5:45, George's lead vocal, John and Paul's backing vocal and Ringo's tambourine being overdubbed onto the previous night's take one rhythm track.

The remainder of the afternoon was s...

Studio Two, EMI Studios, London

Interveiwed in 1966, John and Paul admitted that "Day Tripper" was a "Forced" composition, written under the pressure of having to come up with a single. Well, other composers would have been proud to have come up with a song like this. It formed one of the two A-sid...

Studio Two, EMI Studios, London

This session was to prove a landmark in the Beatle's recording career, extending past midnight for the first time. The May 10 1965 session had also run into the following morning, but that was only for the mixing. There would soon come a time when a session not runni...

The Beatles had released two albums in 1963 and 1964, and now in 1965 they did the same again. The problem was, they had little material to work with and time was passing by. John and Paul had to force themselves to come with more than a dozen new songs and then, with George and Ringo, zip through a...

The #1 song in the US on October 11, 1965

Yesterday - The Beatles

Top #5 songs in the USA

• The Beatles – Yesterday
• The McCoys – Hang On Sloopy
• Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction
• Roy Head – Treat Her Right
• We Five – You Were On My Mind

Top #5 songs in the UK

• Ken Dodd – Tears
• Andy Williams – Almost there
• Manfred Mann – If You Gotta Go Go Now
• Barry McG...

The Beatles all attended a party to celebrate the imminent opening of Lionel Bart's musical Twang!, which ran briefly at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London in December 1965.

The party was held at Bart's home, The Priory, at 3a Seymour Walk, London. 9 October 1965 was also John Lennon's 25th birthda...

Found this photo of George....50 years ago today

Nothing much happening today....

The Beatles enjoying a break.....

The Beatles taking a day off.......

Peter Best, former drummer with the band, files an $8 million lawsuit against Playboy magazine, the Beatles en masse and Beatle drummer Ringo Starr in particular. Best charges that in an interview with the Beatles, published in Playboy last February, a statement attributed to Starr served to hinder ...