Today in Beatles History: September 18

** The following events in Beatles history all took place on September 18. **

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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.

1964
The Beatles, on tour in the USA, perform at Dallas Memorial
Au***orium, Dallas, Texas.

1965
"Help!" is the #1 single in the US for the 3rd week in a row.

[J] 1966
John Lennon and Neil Aspinall travel to the main location for
filming of "How I Won the War", in and around Carboneras, Spain.
Lennon and Aspinall rent a house in Santa Isabel, near Almeria, for
the duration of location shooting. It is here that Lennon composes
"Strawberry Fields Forever".

1967
Filming re-commences for "Magical Mystery Tour", at the Raymond
Revuebar, Walker's Court, London (a striptease club). Shooting the
sequence where The Beatles and the tour's other male passengers
watch Jan Carson strip topless to the accompaniment of the Bonzo
Dog Doo-Dah Band, who play the song "Death Cab For Cutie". Knowing
that the scene as it was filmed would certainly be censored by the
BBC, The Beatles will e*** the finished film so that the word
"CENSORED" is plastered over Carson's bare breasts.

[O] 1967
US release of Beach Boys LP "Smiley Smile", which contains the song
"Vegetables". Paul McCartney provided munching sounds for the
song. Released in the UK on November 20, 1967. [Note: one source
cre***s McCartney as being producer of the song.]

1968
The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio Two, EMI Studios,
London). Complete recording of "Birthday", from start to finish.
After taping 20 takes of the backing track, The Beatles, along with
Yoko Ono, Pattie Harrison, and Chris Thomas, leave the studio and
go to Paul's house to watch the classic rock and roll film "The
Girl Can't Help It" on BBC2. After that they go back into the
studio and record the overdubs for "Birthday". Mal Evans gets into
the act, adding handclaps, and Yoko and Pattie contribute backing
vocals.



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