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Ringo Starr was born Richard Starkey on 7 July 1940 at 9 Madryn Street, Dingle, Liverpool, England, the son of Elsie and Richard Starkey, a confectioner.
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John Winston Lennon born October 9, at Oxford Maternity Hospital in Liverpool England. John was born to Julia and Fred Lennon.
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John and Paul meet and the pair find out that they have similar pop idol intrests:
"Paul, what kind of music do you like?" asked John. " Well I used to like Lonnie Donnegan but that skiffle is fading out. I love the music of Elvis Presley, Eddie Conchrane, Gene Vincent, Little Richard..." "Hey," John interrupted, "they're all the people I'm into." -
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Julia Lennon, John mother, is fatally struck down by a car driven by an off duty, drucken police officer named Eric Clauge. As a result, John becomes more bitter and cynical than ever before about his life.
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The Quarry Men now become The Silver Beetles. Around this time, Allan Williams- club owner of the jacaranda – becomes the group’s part time manager. He arranges with Larry Parnes, an impresario for British pop stars, to audition the Silver Beetles. The band fails the audition as backing group to Billy Fury. Instead, Parnes chooses the band as a backing group for Johnny Gentle. On May 20, Gentle and The Silver Beetles backing group to Billy Fury. Instead, Parnes chooses the band as a backing grou
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John Lennon would give the publisher an interview on how the name “Beatles” came about: “Many people ask what are Beatles? Why Beatles? Ugh, Beatles? How did the name arrive? So we will tell you. It came in a vision- a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, ‘From this day on you are Beatles with an “A”. ‘Thank you Minster Man’, they said, thanking him. And so they were Beatles.”
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“Quite simply, you need a manager. Would you like me to do it?” asked Epstein. “Right, then, Brian, manage us now. Where’s the contract? I’ll sign it,” reported Lennon.
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. After audition, Decca decides not to sign them to a record deal. They were later turned down by just about every record company except Parlophone. George Martin: “But Brian…got them to sign a contract because they hadn’t got a manager at all that was any worthwhile…and so he promised them the earth: ‘I’ll get you a record contract’. And of course he didn’t. He tried everywhere and everyone turned him down. And they were getting fed up and thought they were never going to make it.
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Beatles leave for Hamburg, Germany. They would shortly return back home after learning of a pending record deal with Parlophone. After receiving the good news from Brian Epstein, the band wrote back to him…
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Martin liked everything about the band except Best, who was by this time was not on the best of terms with the other band members either. Ringo Starr, the drummer for another popular Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, was recruited to replace Best.
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On October 5, 1962, the band's first single, "Love Me Do" was released, eventually reaching #17 in the UK. It would be almost two years until the song was released (and became a #1 hit) in the US, because of the skepticism of Parlophone's sister label in the US, Capitol Records, about the prospects of a British band succeeding in America.
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The Beatles begin their concert tour in Scotland
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PLEASE PLEASE ME / ASK ME WHY (single) is released in USA (Vee-Jay Records)
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PLEASE PLEASE ME - their first album, is released in England, on Parlophone Records
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After their second album, With The Beatles became only the second album ever to sell a million copies in the UK, Vee Jay Records, predominantly an R&B label, obtained the US rights to most of the songs from Please Please Me, and released them on an album titled Introducing ... The Beatles in January 1964.
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"I Want To Hold Your Hand" enters at No. 45 on the American Billboard music charts.
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MEET THE BEATLES (lp) is released (Capitol Records)
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"I Want To Hold Your Hand" reaches No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard music charts, selling 2,000,000 units ("She Loves You" sells 1,000,000 units in the U.S.)
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A booking on Ed Sullivan's popular CBS network variety show in February 1964 (watched by an estimated 73-million people) and the fact that the band had two #1 albums in the UK the previous year, finally convinced Capitol Records to sign The Beatles to a US record deal.
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Beatles debut on the Ed Sullivan Show in New York; 50,000 apply for 728 available seats. An estimated 73 million viewers watch that night (or 23,240,000 households, based on a Nielsen rating)
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Beatles first concert appearance in the USA: the Coliseum in Washington, 20,000 fans attend performance.
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Beatles make their second appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in Deauville Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. An estimated 70 million viewers watch that night (or 22,445,000 households based on a Nielsen rating). Songs performed: SHE LOVES YOU; ALL MY LOVING; THIS BOY; I SAW HER STANDING THERE; FROM ME TO YOU; I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND
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Beatles begin work on their first movie, "A Hard Day's Night". According to Walter Shenson, producer of the film, the Beatles story line in the movie would portray them as "prisoners of their success. They go from the airport to the hotel to the theater or stadium or concert hall back to the hotel back to the airport. In any city it's always the same. They literally travel in a cocoon of Liverpool. There's the manager, the road manager, a publicity man, the car, the driver, the guy who carries t
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DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET / THANK YOU GIRL (single) is released (Vee-Jay Records)
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CAN'T BUY ME LOVE / YOU CAN'T DO THAT (single) is released (Capitol Records)
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BILLBOARD CHARTS - Places Beatles songs in top five slots:
1) CAN'T BUY ME LOVE
2) TWIST AND SHOUT
3) SHE LOVES YOU
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By April, 1964, the band's singles occupied the top five spots on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. That summer, they toured New Zealand and Australia, where their arrival in Adelaide was greeted by a crowd estimated at more than 300,000. The first Beatles movie, A Hard Day's Night was released in 1964.
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THE BEATLES SECOND ALBUM (lp) is released (Capitol Records)
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Capitol Records issues a series of 45s on their "Oldies" label: DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET/THANK YOU GIRL; PLEASE PLEASE ME/FROM ME TO YOU; LOVE ME DO/P.S. I LOVE YOU; TWIST AND SHOUT/THERE'S A PLACE
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A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (lp) is released (United Artists Records)
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San Francisco (August 19); Las Vegas (August 20); Seattle (August 21); Vancouver (August 22); Los Angeles (August 23); Denver (August 26); Cincinnati (August 27); New York (August 28); Atlantic City (August 30); Philadelphia (September 2); Indianapolis (September 3); Milwaukee (September 4); Chicago (September 5); Detroit (September 6); Toronto (September 7); Montreal (September 8); Jacksonville (September 11); Boston (September 12); Baltimore (September 13); Pittsburgh (September 14); Cleveland
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BEATLES '65 (lp) is released (Capitol Records)
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GRAMMY AWARDS (1964):
Best New Artist - "The Beatles"
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EIGHT DAYS A WEEK / I DON'T WANT TO SPOIL THE PARTY (single) is released (Capitol Records)
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Beatles start filming (in the Bahamas for tax reasons) their second film, "Help!"
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TICKET TO RIDE / YES IT IS (single) is released (Capitol Records)
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56,000 fans show up at Shea Stadium, New York.
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RUBBER SOUL (lp) is released (Capitol Records) WE CAN WORK IT OUT / DAY TRIPPER (single) is released (Capitol)
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NOWHERE MAN / WHAT GOES ON (single) is released (Capitol Records)
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Beatles begin recording REVOLVER at Abbey Road studios
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PAPERBACK WRITER / RAIN (single) is released (Capitol Records)
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YESTERDAY AND TODAY (lp) is released (Capitol Records)
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Beatles final U.S.A. performance held in San Francisco's "Candlestick Park"
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John Lennon visits the Indica Gallery in London where he meets Yoko Ono who is displaying her art
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Beatles begin recording SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND
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STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER / PENNY LANE (single) is released (Capitol Records) Noted Atlanta psychiatrist Tom Leland would lament upon this single and the subsequent album, Sgt. Pepper, by describing Beatles new compositions as "speaking in an existential way about the meaninglessness of actuality."
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Paul McCartney meets his future wife, Linda Eastman, at the Bag O'Nails.
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SGT. PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (lp) is released (Capitol Records)
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ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE / BABY YOU'RE A RICH MAN (single) is released (Capitol Records)
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HELLO GOODBYE / I AM THE WALRUS (single) is released (Capitol Records)
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LADY MADONNA / THE INNER LIGHT (single) is released (Capitol Records)
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HEY JUDE / REVOLUTION (single) is released (Apple Records) sells 6 million copies world-wide
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John Lennon announces to the others that he is leaving the band Author Barry Miles in his book "The Beatles: A Diary" explains that as Paul attempted to discuss Beatle matters, John Lennon kept saying "No, no, no" to everything Paul suggested. Paul asked John what he meant by "no". John replied: "I mean the group is over. I’m leaving. Allen was saying don't tell. He didn't want me to tell Paul even. So I said 'It’s out.' I couldn’t stop it, it came out. Paul and Allen both said tha
