Today in Beatles History: September 16

** The following events in Beatles history all took place on September 16. **

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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 Indra Club, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg,
West Germany.

1961
The Beatles perform at Aintree Institute, Aintree, Liverpool.

1962
The Beatles perform at the ****rn Club at night.

1963
US release of Beatles single "She Loves You/I'll Get You" (Swan).
15 weeks on Billboard chart; highest position #1.

1963
The Beatles take a holiday. John and Cynthia Lennon travel to
Paris, to be joined later by Brian Epstein. George Harrison and
his brother Peter go to the US to visit their sister Louise, who
had been living in Benton, Illinois, since 1954. Paul McCartney
and Ringo Starr go to Greece.

1964
The Beatles perform before a capacity crowd of 12,000 at City Park
Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana.

1967
The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio Three, EMI Studios,
London). Recording a re-make of "Your Mother Should Know", giving
the song a stronger beat. Eleven takes are recorded, but this
version of the song will be discarded in favor of the original
recording. Take 27, recorded this day, is included on "The Beatles
Anthology 2" (Disc two, Track 16).

1968
The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio Two, EMI Studios,
London). George Harrison was absent from this recording session.
Paul, John, and Ringo record "I Will" (67 takes). Paul sings and
plays acoustic guitar, Ringo plays maracas and cymbals, and John
taps out a beat with wood on metal. Between takes, Paul sings
several ad-lib bits, one of them the "Can you take me back where I
came from, can you take me back?" piece that is inserted after "Cry
Baby Cry" and before "Revolution 9" on "The Beatles". Two recorder
bits are overdubbed onto "Glass Onion". During the recording of "I
Will", Paul, joined by John and Ringo, performs a jam version of
his song "Step Inside Love", which evolves into the impromptu "Los
Paranoias". "Step Inside Love/Los Paranoias" is included on "The
Beatles Anthology 3" (Disc one, Track 23). Also included on
"Anthology 3" is Take 1 of "I Will" (Disc one, Track 25).

[R] 1977
UK release of Ringo Starr single "Drowning in a Sea of Love/Just a
Dream" (Polydor).



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