Today in Beatles History: June 24

** The following events in Beatles history all took place on June 24. **

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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 Top Ten Club, Reeperbahn, Hamburg, West
Germany. (1199)

1962
The Beatles perform at the Casbah Coffee Club, West Derby,
Liverpool. This is The Beatles' final appearance at this club,
which will close at the end of the month. (1479)

1963
The Beatles, at London's Playhouse Theatre, tape an appearance for
the BBC radio program "Saturday Club". They perform "I Got to Find
My Baby", "Memphis", "Money", "Till There Was You", "From Me to
You", and "Roll Over Beethoven". Broadcast on June 29. The last
two songs were included in the portion of the program broadcast
overseas. (1828)

1964
The Beatles perform two shows at Town Hall, Auckland, North Island,
New Zealand. (2138)

[J] 1965
John Lennon's second book, "A Spaniard In the Works", is published
in the UK by Jonathan Cape. (2383)

1965
The Beatles, on a tour in Europe, perform two shows at the
Velodromo Vigorelli in Milan, Italy. The performances are staged
in a 22,000-seat open-air arena. Neither is a sell-out, with only
7,000 people attending the afternoon show and 20,000 coming to the
night performance. A severe heat wave is blamed as part of the
reason for the relatively low attendance in the afternoon. Italian
newspapers are less kind, saying The Beatles are "No more than four
ugly faces, four long heads of hair, four sublime idiots, four
barefoot bums--but they succeeded in creating a spectacle that one
can only admire." (2385)

1966
The Beatles perform two shows at the Circus-Krone-Bau in Munich,
West Germany. These are the first concerts of a short
international tour. The song list for the tour is "Rock and Roll
Music", "She's a Woman", "If I Needed Someone", "Day Tripper",
"Baby's In Black", "I Feel Fine", "Yesterday", "I Wanna Be Your
Man", "Nowhere Man", "Paperback Writer", and "I'm Down." The
support acts are Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers, the Rattles,
and Peter & Gordon. The second concert is filmed and broadcast
later as "Die Beatles". The Beatles had not rehearsed and are
ill-prepared to perform live. Before "I'm Down", Paul has to
consult with John and George to remember the lyrics, but he fouls
them up anyway. The Beatles' musicianship on the tour is lousy.
The atmosphere is complicated by a ticket falsification scheme that
had been discovered by police. (2546)

1967
The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio One, EMI Studios,
London). Recording overdubs for "All You Need Is Love". A
decision has been made to issue the song as a single after the 'Our
World' broadcast scheduled for the next day. (2708)

1967
The Beatles dress up in sandwich boards painted with 'All You Need
Is Love' in different languages, and they conduct a photo shoot in
an alley outside Abbey Road Studios, to promote "All You Need Is
Love". (2709)

1977
UK release of Beatles single "Twist and Shout/Falling in Love
Again" (Lingasong). Selections from the Star-Club tapes double LP.
(663)

[J] 1999
The first permanent exhibition of John Lennon's artwork (drawings
and prints) opens at the Mathew Street Gallery in Liverpool,
England. Collector Ian Wallace, who began collecting Lennon
limited e***ions in the early 90's, was the driving force behind
the opening of the gallery. The gallery is located just yards from
the original site of the ****rn Club, where Lennon (as a member of
The Beatles) paid his musical dues. Wallace said, "...where else
should you have a John Lennon gallery but in Liverpool...?" Lennon
was a student at the Liverpool College of Art between 1957 and
1960. (3868)



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