Today in Beatles History: October 9

** The following events in Beatles history all took place on October 9. **

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Beatles * [J] John * [P] Paul * [G] George * [R] Ringo * [O] Other
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[J] 1940
John Winston Lennon is born at Oxford Street Maternity Hospital,
Liverpool, England.

1960
The Beatles perform at the Kaiserkeller Club, Grosse Freiheit,
Hamburg, West Germany.

1962
In London after the previous day's radio program taping, The
Beatles have no performance bookings, so they spend the day (John
Lennon's birthday) dropping in on music journalists and the weekly
pop newspapers to promote "Love Me Do".

1963
The Beatles tape an appearance on the BBC radio comedy program,
"The Ken Dodd Show". They record "She Loves You" in front of a
studio audience. Broadcast on November 3, 1963, and re-broadcast
on November 6, 1963, and on February 1, 1964.

1964
The Beatles perform at the Gaumont Cinema in Bradford. They begin
a much-anticipated British tour, the only Beatles tour of their
homeland in 1964. On this tour, The Beatles earn 850 pounds for
each night, playing two performances per night. Their song list
for the tour is "Twist and Shout", "Money", "Can't Buy Me Love",
"Things We Said Today", "I'm Happy Just to Dance With You", "I
Should Have Known Better", "If I Fell", "I Wanna Be Your Man", "A
Hard Day's Night", and "Long Tall Sally". Supporting acts are the
Rustiks, Michael Haslam, Bob Bain, Sounds Incorporated, Mary Wells,
The Remo Four, and Tommy Quickly.

1965
"Yesterday" becomes the #1 single in the US (Billboard).

1968
The Beatles in the recording studio (Studios Two and One, EMI
Studios, London). Stereo and mono mixing for "The Continuing Story
of Bungalow Bill", followed by a Paul McCartney backing vocal and
Chris Thomas piano overdub for "Long Long Long" (which is now
completed). Paul ducks into Studio One with engineer Ken Townshend
to record "Why Don't We Do It In the Road?" He records five takes
of a basic track with acoustic guitar and vocal, then overdubs a
piano part onto take 5. Ringo's drum track, recorded the following
night, will be the only contribution made to the song by another
Beatle. Take 4 of "Why Don't We Do It In the Road?" was released
on "The Beatles Anthology 3" (Disc one, Track 26).

[J] 1969
Yoko enters King's College Hospital, London. She will suffer her
second miscarriage three days later.

[O] 1971
Yoko Ono's art exhibit "This Is Not Here" opens at the Everson
Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, on John Lennon's birthday. The
exhibit will run through October 27. The proceedings are filmed
and are broadcast on US television on May 11, 1972, as "John and
Yoko in Syracuse, New York". John and Yoko join with some members
of the Onondaga Indian tribe who are protesting US government
confiscation of their land for highway construction. A jam session
in celebration of John's birthday comes together at a Syracuse
hotel, with Ringo, Phil Spector, Klaus Voorman, Allen Ginsberg, Jim
Keltner (and possibly Eric Clapton) taking part. John and Yoko are
interviewed by a Japanese journalist, the interview becoming known
as "the argument interview" due to the unusual amount of
disagreement between John and Yoko.

[J] 1975
On John's 35th birthday, Yoko gives birth to their son, Sean Taro
Ono Lennon. Elton John will be the child's godfather.

[J] 1985
"Strawberry Fields" in New York's Central Park is completed and
officially opened to the public on the 45th anniversary of John
Lennon's birthday.

[J] 1990
A special broadcast of John Lennon's song "Imagine" is carried by
approximately 1,000 radio stations in over 50 countries in
celebration of Lennon's 50th birthday. The event is sponsored by
the Trusteeship Council Chamber of the United Nations.



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