September 9 in The Beatles History

** The following events in Beatles history all took place on September 9. **

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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 Aintree Institute, Aintree, Liverpool.

1962
The Beatles perform at the ****rn Club at night. Also on the bill
is Clinton Ford, who'd had two Top 30 singles.

1968
The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio Two, EMI Studios,
London). Chris Thomas, George Martin's assistant, assumes the
duties of producer for The Beatles from this date until Martin's
return from vacation on October 1. The Beatles record "Helter
Skelter" (21 takes). John played bass and honked on a saxophone.
Mal Evans tried his best at playing trumpet. Paul recorded his
lead vocal while George ran about the studio holding a flaming
ashtray above his head.

[J] 1971
US release of John Lennon LP "Imagine" (Apple). Songs: "Imagine",
"Crippled Inside", "Jealous Guy", "It's So Hard", "I Don't Want to
Be a Soldier Mama, I Don't Want to Die", "Gimme Some Truth", "Oh My
Love", "How Do You Sleep?", "How?", "Oh Yoko". 30 weeks on
Billboard chart; highest position #1. [Note: Later releases of the
album will change the name of "Gimme Some Truth" to "Give Me Some
Truth", and "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier Mama, I Don't Want to
Die" is changed to simply "I Don't Want to be a Soldier" (and the
original release liner has the spellings "Wanna" and "Mamma").]

[J] 1971
While John and Yoko are taping an appearance on the US televison
show "The Dick ****tt Show", John Lennon says The Beatles broke up
due to "Beatlemania and screaming crowds that drowned out the
music, not because of Yoko Ono." Broadcast on Sept. 23. [Note: a
reader has written in stating that a bootleg video of the taping of
this program shows a clapper board bearing the date September 8,
1971, a day earlier. Keith Badman also reports this event
occurring on the 8th.]

[J] 1973
John Lennon sells Tittenhurst Park to Ringo Starr.



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