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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 22, 1965 (Wednesday) - 0 Comments

Going Home

September 22, 1965 - Nine-day-old Zak Starkey leaving Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital with his parents and nurse Marion Bramwell en route to his London home at 34 Montagu Square for the first time.

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 21, 1965 (Tuesday) - 0 Comments

A show called `Brian Epstein's Evening of Popular Music' is presented at the Commonwealth Arts Festival, Royal Festival Hall, London. The Moody Blues are in the bill, being their first major engagement since Brian is their manager. The concert is presented as `Pop From Britain'. The compere is Brian...

The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 20, 1965 (Monday) - 0 Comments

Top #5 songs in the USA

  • The Beatles – Help!
  • The McCoys – Hang on Sloopy
  • Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction
  • Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone
  • We Five – You were on my mind

Top #5 songs in the UK

  • The Rolling Stones – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
  • Sonny & Cher – I Got you Babe
  • The Walke...
The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 19, 1965 (Sunday) - 0 Comments

The Beatles enjoying their six-week break.

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 18, 1965 (Saturday) - 0 Comments

September 18, 1965 ...... that special week of September people in US were listening to Help! by The Beatles.

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 17, 1965 (Friday) - 0 Comments
Still going strong.................The #1 song in the US on September 17, 1965
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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 16, 1965 (Thursday) - 0 Comments

Ringo and Zak!

September 16, 1965 - New dad Ringo holding his adorable three-day-old son Zak in his wife Maureen’s private room at London’s Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital. Zak arrived weighing 8 lbs. on September 13, 1965.

 

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 15, 1965 (Wednesday) - 0 Comments

Still........The #1 song in the US on September 15, 1965

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 14, 1965 (Tuesday) - 0 Comments

Following the completion of the Beatles' 1965 tour of North America, the weary group took the month of September off to relax and enjoy home life. This gave John and Paul opportunity to finish songwriting for the group's upcoming album, Rubber Soul. It also allowed time for Ringo Starr and his wife ...

The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 13, 1965 (Monday) - 0 Comments

Although The Beatles chose not to release Yesterday as a single in the UK, their US record label Capitol Records decided otherwise and released it with the b-side Act Naturally.

The single hit the charts by September 29, 1965, and from October 9th spent four weeks at number one. Altogether it spen...

The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 12, 1965 (Sunday) - 0 Comments

The Ed Sullivan Show 50 years ago today.

Ed and Soupy Sales reminisce about their European vacation with Soupy narrating a series of silent film clips illustrate their pratfalls. English singer Cilla Black performs two songs and Fantasio delivers a set of slight-of-hand magic tricks. The Beatles re...

The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 11, 1965 (Saturday) - 0 Comments

Just over a year after the Beatles first soundtrack, A Hard Day’s Night, hit Number One on the Top LP’s chart, the Fab Four was back on top with its second soundtrack, Help!

Although longtime Beatles producer George Martin had proven quite adept at scoring with A Hard Day’s Night, he wasn’t used on H...

The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 10, 1965 (Friday) - 0 Comments

The Beatles enjoying their 6 week break.

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 9, 1965 (Thursday) - 0 Comments

The Beatles taking a 6 week break.

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 8, 1965 (Wednesday) - 0 Comments

The Beatles still enjoying their break.

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 7, 1965 (Tuesday) - 0 Comments

Beatles still enjoying their 6 week break.

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 6, 1965 (Monday) - 0 Comments

The Beatles has the number one hit this week with Help!. Finding a spot at number two this week is I Got You Babe by Sonny & Cher.  At number three this week is The Beach Boys with California Girls.

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 5, 1965 (Sunday) - 0 Comments

The Beatles - enjoying their break from the long US Tour.

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 4, 1965 (Saturday) - 0 Comments

September 4, 1965 "Beatles' ""Help!,"" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks"

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 3, 1965 (Friday) - 0 Comments

In this special week of September people in US were listening to Help! by The Beatles.

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 2, 1965 (Thursday) - 0 Comments

The Beatles and their manager, Brian Epstein, return to England after touring the United States.

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: September 1, 1965 (Wednesday) - 0 Comments

 Today the Beatles had a break

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: August 31, 1965 (Tuesday) - 0 Comments

Cow Palace, San Francisco, USA

The tenth and final concert of the 1965 North American tour, at the venue which had opened the 1964 itinerary. There were two shows - a matinee seen by 11,700 and an evening performance seen by 17,000. The Beatles flew home during the evening of September 1st, landing...

The Beatles - A Day in The Life: August 30, 1965 (Monday) - 0 Comments

This was The Beatles' third and final concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California, following performances on August 23, 1964 and August 29, 1965.

As with the previous night's show, tickets retailed for $3, $4, $5, $6 and $7. For the two concerts The Beatles earned $90,000 from the tot...

The Beatles - A Day in The Life: August 29, 1965 (Sunday) - 0 Comments

Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, USA

The Beatles had performed a triumphant show at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl on August 23, 1964.  A little over a year later, they returned for two further sell-out shows.

In the afternoon of 29 August 1965 they gave a press conference at the Capitol Tower at Hollyw...

The Beatles - A Day in The Life: August 28, 1965 (Saturday) - 0 Comments

Balboa Statium, Russ Blvd. San Diego, California, USA. Here is the setlist.

  1.  Twist And Shout
  2. I Feel Fine
  3. Dizzy Miss Lizzy
  4. Ticket to Ride
  5. Everybody's Tryin' to be my baby
  6. Can't buy me Love
  7. Baby's in Black
  8. I wanna be your man
  9. A Hard Day's Night
  10. Help!
  11. I'm Down

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: August 27, 1965 (Friday) - 0 Comments

Late in the evening of August 27th, the group drove across to Perugia Way, Beverly Hills, to meet their one-time idol Elvis Presley, a summit conference arranged by Presley's manager, "Colonel" Tom Parker, and greatly anticipated by the Beatles and Brian Epstein. But the meeting was not a great succ...

The Beatles - A Day in The Life: August 26, 1965 (Thursday) - 0 Comments

The Beatles still taking a (much needed) rest before the concert in San Diego.

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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: August 25, 1965 (Wednesday) - 0 Comments

This was The Beatles' third rest day in Los Angeles. They were halfway through a five-day break in their 1965 tour of North America, staying in a mansion owned by actress Zsa Zsa Gabor at 2850 Benedict Canyon, Beverly Hills.

After the events of the previous day, in which the group took LSD with Th...

The Beatles - A Day in The Life: August 24, 1965 (Tuesday) - 0 Comments

This was The Beatles' second day off during their five-day break in the 1965 North America tour. They rented a house owned by Zsa Zsa Gabor at 2850 Benedict Canyon, Beverly Hills, where they were visited by a number of people.

This was the day on which John Lennon and George Harrison had their sec...

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