Today in Beatles History: November 20

** The following events in Beatles history all took place on November 20. **

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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 Kaiserkeller Club, Grosse Freiheit,
Hamburg, West Germany.

1962
The Beatles perform at Floral Hall, Southport, playing two shows.

1963
The Beatles, on a tour of Britain, perform for two "houses" at the
ABC Cinema in Manchester, Lancashire. Before the show they give a
radio interview (for the BBC's "Voice of the North"), a television
interview (for Granada TV's "Scene at 6:30"), and an interview for
a short newsreel documentary being filmed by Pathe News. The
Beatles permitted Pathe News to film two songs from their first
show of the evening ("She Loves You" and "Twist and Shout") for the
eight-minute documentary called "The Beatles Come to Town". The
short film was distributed to theatres during the week of December
22. The footage of the Beatles performing "She Loves You" and
"Twist and Shout" was later incorporated into a 70-minute movie
known as "Pop Gear" (it was released in the US under the title "Go
Go Mania").

[J] 1964
John Lennon records part of his appearance on the first show of the
new Dudley Moore/Peter Cook BBC television program "Not Onlyõ?ƯBut
Also". On this day, Lennon, along with Moore and guest-star Norman
Rossington (who acted as The Beatles' manager "Norm" in their movie
"A Hard Day's Night"), do shooting at Wimbledon Common, London.
They film a surrealistic dream sequence to accompany Lennon's
reading of "Deaf Ted, Danoota, (and me)", one of the short works
from Lennon's book "In His Own Write". Ad***ional filming will be
done on November 29. The show is broadcast on January 9, 1965.

[P] 1974
Wings tapes a performance of "Junior's Farm" for the UK television
program "Top of the Pops". Broadcast the following day.

[G] 1976
UK release of George Harrison compilation LP "The Best of George
Harrison" (Parlophone). Songs: "Something", "If I Needed Someone",
"Here Comes the Sun", "Taxman", "Think For Yourself", "For You
Blue", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "My Sweet Lord" , "Give Me
Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)", "You", "Bangla Desh", "Dark Horse",
"What Is Life".

[G] 1976
Two George Harrison promotional films are broadcast on US
television, on the program "Saturday Night Live". "Crackerbox
Palace" (directed by Eric Idle) and "This Song" (directed by
Harrison) are shown.

[P] 1979
US release of Paul McCartney single "Wonderful
Christmastime/Rudolph the Red Nosed Reggae" (Columbia).

[R] 1981
UK release of Ringo Starr LP "Stop and Smell the Roses" (RCA).
Songs: "Private Property", "Wrack My Brain", "Drumming Is My
Madness", "Attention", "Stop and Take the Time to Smell the Roses",
"Dead Giveaway", "You Belong to Me", "Sure to Fall", "Nice Way",
and "Back Off Boogaloo" (version 2).

2000
Reuters new service announces that The Beatles' compilation album
"1" has become the #1 UK album in its first week of release, on the
strength of first-week sales of 319,000. "1" is the 15th Beatles
album to reach #1 in the UK and is the first #1 album for the group
since 1996's "Anthology 2".

2000
The Beatles' compilation album "1" is #1 in Sweden.



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