Today in Beatles History: June 13

** The following events in Beatles history all took place on June 13. **

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Beatles * [J] John * [P] Paul * [G] George * [R] Ringo * [O] Other
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1960
The Silver Beetles perform at the Jacaranda Coffee Bar, Liverpool.
Tommy Moore makes his final appearance as the group's drummer.
(1417)

1961
The Beatles perform at the Top Ten Club, Reeperbahn, Hamburg, West
Germany. (1188)

1962
The Beatles perform at the ****rn Club at lunchtime and then again
at night. (1471)

1963
The Beatles perform at two venues on the same night. They perform
first at the Palace Theatre Club in Offerton, Stockport, Cheshire.
Then they travel ten miles to the Southern Sporting Club,
Manchester, Lancashire. (1813)

1964
The Beatles perform two more shows at Centennial Hall, Adelaide,
South Australia, Australia. For the four shows that The Beatles
performed in Adelaide there were 12,000 tickets, for which 50,000
requests had been placed. The two shows on this day are drummer
Jimmy Nicol's last as a "temporary Beatle". Ringo Starr will meet
The Beatles in Melbourne the next day and perform with them right
away. Jimmy Nicol's brief stint as a 'member' of the world's most
popular musical group is over. (2127)

1966
Release in Sweden of Beatles LP "The Beatles Second Album"
(Parlophone). (3808)

1966
Release in Sweden of Beatles LP "Beatles VI" (Parlophone). (3809)

[P] 1968
Paul is filmed in EMI Studios performing "Blackbird", for a short
film being assembled to promote Apple Records. (2848)

1970
The Beatles' LP "Let It Be" reaches #1 in the US album charts.
(3240)

1970
The Beatles' single "The Long and Winding Road" reaches #1 in the
US charts. (3674)

[J] 1975
John Lennon appears in a pre-taped television performance for the
special "Salute to Sir Lew Grade". This will be Lennon's final
stage appearance. John's backing group wears two-faced masks,
Lennon's unsubtle reference to his opinion of Sir Lew. Lennon and
his group are billed as "John Lennon and Etcetera". One of the
three songs performed for the special, "Imagine", is included on
the 1992 videocassette "The John Lennon Collection". They had
taped, in ad***ion to "Imagine", the songs "Stand by Me" and
"Slippin' and Slidin'", but "Stand by Me" was not included in the
broadcast. (3525)

1977
US release of Beatles double LP "The Beatles Live! At the Star-Club
in Hamburg, Germany; 1962" (Lingasong). Songs: "I'm Gonna Sit
Right Down and Cry Over You", "Roll Over Beethoven", "Hippy Hippy
Shake", "Sweet Little Sixteen", "Lend Me Your Comb", "Your Feets
Too Big", "Where Have You Been All My Life", "Mr. Moonlight", "A
Taste of Honey", "Besame Mucho", "Till There Was You", "Kansas
City/Hey Hey Hey Hey", "Hallelujah I Love Her So", "Ain't Nothin'
Shakin' (But the Leaves On the Trees)", "To Know Her is to Love
Her", "Little Queenie", "Falling in Love Again", "Sheila",
"Be-Bop-a-Lula", "Red Sails in the Sunset", "Everybody's Trying to
Be My Baby", "Matchbox", "I'm Talking About You", "Shimmy Shake",
"Long Tall Sally", and "I Remember You". Recorded live in Hamburg
on December 31, 1962. Highest position in Billboard charts: #111.
(220)

[P] 1980
UK release of Paul McCartney single "Waterfalls/Check My Machine"
(Parlophone). The B-side does not appear on the "McCartney II" LP.
(690)



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