Today in Beatles History: August 8

** The following events in Beatles history all took place on August 8. **

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Beatles * [J] John * [P] Paul * [G] George * [R] Ringo * [O] Other
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1961
The Beatles perform at the ****rn Club at lunchtime.

1962
The Beatles perform at the Co-op Ballroom, St. Sepulchre Gate,
Doncaster, Yorkshire. The Beatles usually play at the ****rn Club
on Wednesday nights, but they are excused so they can appear in
Doncaster, which is 86 miles from Liverpool.

1963
The Beatles perform at the Au***orium in St. Peter Port, Guernsey,
Channel Islands. The third of five nights playing in the Channel
Islands. The first two nights had been on the island of Jersey.
This day they travel 30 miles to Guernsey in a 12-seater plane,
while their equipment is transported by ferry.

1964
"A Hard Day's Night" is the #1 single in the US for the second week
in a row.

1965
The Beatles' album "Help!" is #1 in the UK charts.

1966
US release of Beatles LP "Revolver" (Capitol). Songs: "Taxman",
"Eleanor Rigby", "Love You To", "Here There and Everywhere",
"Yellow Submarine", "She Said She Said", "Good Day Sunshine", "For
No One", "I Want to Tell You", "Got to Get You Into My Life",
"Tomorrow Never Knows". This is the last Beatles album to contain
different songs on the European and American versions. 77 weeks on
Billboard chart; highest position #1.

1966
Beatles records are banned from South Africa's airwaves, in a
punitive response to the "Beatles bigger than Jesus" fiasco.

1966
Release in Sweden of Beatles single "Yellow Submarine/Eleanor
Rigby" (Parlophone). Six weeks in the Swedish charts; highest
position #2.

1968
The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio Two, EMI Studios,
London). Final mixing for "Hey Jude" and "Revolution", the next
Beatles' single, which will be released in the UK on August 30.
The single will go on to sell over 8 million copies worldwide.
Then the Beatles spend the remainder of the 12-hour session working
on "Not Guilty", going up to take 101. Take 99 is determined to be
the best at this point.

1969
Photographer Iain McMillan, balanced on a step-ladder in the middle
of Abbey Road, takes photographs of John, Ringo, Paul, and George
walking across the zebra crossing (pedestrian cross-walk) just
outside Abbey Road studios. The Beatles cross several times,
McMillan taking six shots while a policeman holds up traffic for
them.

1969
The Beatles in the recording studio (Studios Two and Three, EMI
Studios, London). Recording drums and bass overdubs for "The End".
Then Ringo adds drums while John records an overdub of synthesizer
and white-noise onto "I Want You (She's So Heavy)". In another
studio, Paul records lead guitar and tambourine overdubs onto "Oh!
Darling".

[P] 1973
On the eve of Wings' departure for Lagos, Nigeria, members Henry
McCullough and Denny Seiwell quit the group. The remnants of the
band, Paul and Linda McCartney and Denny Laine, travel to Lagos,
where they will record the group's most successful album to date,
"Band On the Run". [Notes: Mark Lewisohn suggests that Henry
McCullough quit before the 8th. Keith Badman lists August 29 as
the correct date for this entry.]



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