Today in Beatles History: September 29

** The following events in Beatles history all took place on September 29. **

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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 a lunchtime show at the ****rn Club, Liverpool,
and a night show at Village Hall, Knotty Ash, Liverpool. This will
be their last performance for two weeks, with John Lennon and Paul
McCartney about to take a trip to Paris.

1962
The Beatles perform at the Oasis Club, Manchester.

1964
The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio Two, EMI Studios,
London). Recording songs for their fourth album, "Beatles For
Sale". They tape four takes of "Every Little Thing" (George
arrived late and did not play on these takes), 19 takes of "I Don't
Want to Spoil the Party", and seven takes of "What You're Doing".

1967
The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio Two, EMI Studios,
London). A particularly inventive mixing session, with John Lennon
actively involved, preparing 17 mono mixes of "I Am the Walrus"
before the master tape is finished, it being a compilation of two
separate mixes. One of those mixes features the sound of a radio
being tuned through numerous stations, coming to rest on a BBC
production of William Shakespeare's "King Lear". After the
completion of "I Am the Walrus", John (playing organ) and Paul
(playing bass), complete "Your Mother Should Know", returning to
the original recording from August 22-23 after rejecting the Sept.
16 re-make.

[J] 1967
John Lennon and George Harrison record an interview with David
Frost for broadcast that same night on Frost's late-night show "The
Frost Programme". The two Beatles discuss Transcendental
Me***ation.

[P] 1975
US release of Wings single "Letting Go/You Gave Me the Answer"
(Capitol). 6 weeks on Billboard chart; highest position #39.

[J] 1980
An interview with John Lennon is published in "Newsweek" magazine
in the US.

[J] 1996
It is announced that Julian Lennon is the anonymous buyer who
purchased Paul McCartney's handwritten recording notes for the song
"Hey Jude" at auction for 25,000 pounds ($39,030). The song was
written by McCartney for the young Julian when the boy's father,
John Lennon, separated from his mother, Cynthia, in 1968.


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