September 1 in The Beatles History

** The following events in Beatles history all took place on September 1. **

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Beatles * [J] John * [P] Paul * [G] George * [R] Ringo * [O] Other
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1960
The Beatles perform at the Indra Club, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg,
West Germany.

1961
The Beatles perform at the ****rn Club at lunchtime and then again
at night.

1962
The Beatles perform at the Subscription Rooms, Stroud.

1963
The Beatles record an appearance for the ABC Television program
"Big Night Out", a comedy program. The Beatles perform lip-sync to
"From Me to You", "She Loves You", and "Twist and Shout", taping
before a studio audience of 600. Recorded at Didsbury Studio
Centre, Manchester. Broadcast on September 7.

1967
The four Beatles meet at Paul McCartney's house to decide upon
their next course of action. They decide to postpone their planned
trip to India and to begin the already-delayed production of the
"Magical Mystery Tour" movie. They have two songs already recorded
for the movie, "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Your Mother Should
Know". A recording session is set for September 5, and filming is
scheduled to begin on September 11.

[J] 1969
John, George, and Ringo attend Bob Dylan's concert at the Isle of
Wight Festival.

1972
Re-release in Sweden of Beatles LP "Something New" (Odeon).

[P] 1986
UK release of Paul McCartney CD and LP "Press to Play"
(Parlophone). Songs: "Press", "Stranglehold", "Good Times
Coming/Feel the Sun", "Talk More Talk", "Footprints", "Only Love
Remains", "Pretty Little Head", "Move Over Busker", "Angry", and
"However Absurd". The CD release has the bonus tracks "Write
Away", "Tough On a Tightrope", and "It's Not True".

1999
US premiere of the restored and digitally remastered animated
Beatles motion picture "Yellow Submarine". The film's audio track
has been remixed in 5.1 Surroundsound. First US showings are in
Boston and Seattle. Other cities in which the movie will be
screened through mid-September: Los Angeles, San Diego, San
Francisco, Minneapolis, Denver, New York, and Chicago.



** The following events all took place sometime in September. **
1960
The Beatles become friends with Klaus Voorman and Astrid Kirchherr,
who belong to a group of existentialist intellectuals/artists known
as 'exis'. Voorman is a beat music fan and wants to design record
covers (he will design the cover for The Beatles' 1966 album
"Revolver"). Kirchherr is a photographer, and she takes many
photographs of The Beatles. Astrid and Stu Sutcliffe fall in love
and they become engaged in November or December.

1961
"Mersey Beat" reports the formation of the first Beatles fan club
by Bernard Boyle.

1961
Germany release of EP "Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers", the
first release of the songs "Why" and "Cry For a Shadow". This
makes "Cry For a Shadow", a George Harrison/John Lennon
instrumental on which only The Beatles play, the first Beatles
composition to appear on record.

1967
The Beatles hire a group of three Dutch designers, who go by the
name "The Fool", to design a boutique. The initial investment is
100,000 pounds. The Fool agreed to stock the boutique with their
own unique clothing designs. Paul made the suggestion that the
boutique be named "Apple". Unfortunately, it wasn't long before
problems arose with The Fool taking Apple merchandise home without
paying for it.

1967
A papier-mâché caricature of the Beatles, created by British
cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, appears on the cover of the US news
magazine "TIME".

[P] 1971
Paul McCartney and Wings record the "Wild Life" LP.

[J] 1971
John and Yoko, in a room at the St. Regis Hotel in New York, record
the soundtrack for their film "Clock". The film will be screened
at Yoko's art exhibit in Syracuse, New York, on October 9.

[R] 1972
Ringo Starr records the songs "Fiddle About" and "Tommy's Holiday
Camp", from the Who rock opera "Tommy", with the London Symphony
Orchestra and Chamber Choir for an LP of the entire rock opera.
Other artists appearing on the album are The Who, Steve Winwood,
Richie Havens, Rod Stewart, Richard Harris, Maggie Bell, Sandy
Denny, Graham Bell, and Merry Clayton.

1977
UK re-release of Beatles singles box set "The Beatles Collection"
(EMI). Same as the UK singles set released on March 6, 1976 except
for adding a 24th single, "Back in the USSR/Twist and Shout". In
June 1978 a 25th single was added to the set, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help From My Friends/A Day In the
Life". The set was available through mail order. It was deleted
in April 1981.

[R] 1981
US re-release of Ringo Starr LP's "Beaucoups of Blues" and "Blast
From Your Past" (both Capitol).

1982
US re-release of Beatles LP "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
(Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs). Half-speed master recording.

1982
US release of 13-LP boxed set "The Beatles: The Collection" (Mobile
Fidelity Sound Labs). Half-speed master recordings of the 12
original stereo UK Beatles albums [*] plus the US LP "Magical
Mystery Tour". [*"Please Please Me", "With the Beatles", "A Hard
Day's Night", "Beatles For Sale", "Help!", "Rubber Soul",
"Revolver", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "The Beatles",
"Yellow Submarine", "Abbey Road", and "Let It Be".]



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