Today in Beatles History: July 12

** The following events in Beatles history all took place on July 12. **

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Beatles * [J] John * [P] Paul * [G] George * [R] Ringo * [O] Other
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1962
The Beatles perform at the ****rn Club at lunchtime and at the
Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead, that night. (1496)

1963
UK release of Tony Sheridan and the Beatles EP "My Bonnie"
(Polydor). Songs: "My Bonnie", "The Saints", "Why", and "Cry for a
Shadow". (501)

1963
UK release of Beatles EP "Twist and Shout" (Parlophone). Songs:
"Twist and Shout", "A Taste of Honey", "Do You Want to Know a
Secret", and "There's a Place". Highest chart position: #1. (502)

1963
The Beatles perform two shows at the Winter Gardens, Margate, Kent.
(1844)

1964
The Beatles perform at the Hippodrome Theatre in Brighton. Also
appearing are The Fourmost and the Shubdubs (whose drummer, Jimmy
Nicol, filled on for the hospitalized Ringo Starr on The Beatles'
world tour--but he and The Beatles do not meet on this night).
That night in the United States, "The Ed Sullivan Show"
re-broadcasts The Beatles' first live television appearance on the
Sullivan show (from February 9). (2149)

[G] 1964
On his way to a Beatles' performance in Brighton, George Harrison
is involved in an auto accident in his E-type Jaguar at the
intersection of New King's Road and Munster Road in London. (2396)

1968
The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio Two, EMI Studios,
London). "Don't Pass Me By" is brought to near-completion.
Overdubs include bass, piano, and violin (played by Jack Fallon).
Fallon was also an agent, and he had booked The Beatles for a
performance in Stroud on March 31, 1962. A second recording
session, begun at midnight, sees John Lennon overdub another lead
guitar part onto "Revolution" (the faster version released on the
flip side of the "Hey Jude" single"). Paul adds another bass part.
(2868)


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