Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

[WOM]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

Jah Womble wrote: But then, I imagine a lot of us will have a Beatles anniversary of one form or another.

All You Need Is Love was #1 in the US on the day I was born.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

Stuart Sutcliffe quit The Beatles a month or so before I was kicked out of grammar school.

[Sits]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

Happy birthday G-man!

[Jah Womble]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

Amor de Cosmos wrote: Stuart Sutcliffe quit The Beatles a month or so before I was kicked out of grammar school.

For its sheer listlessness, that might just be the best of the lot...

[Amor de Cosmos]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

Thanks... I think.

[1974ddr]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

The single I Want To Hold Your Hand was released the day I was born. And the Yellow Submarine album five years later.
Both were US releases though. They were behind the UK with the single, but slightly ahead of us with the (inessential) album.

[treibeis]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

On the day I was born, All You Need Is Love was knocked off the number-one spot in the German charts by San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair).

I'd have preferred The Beatles to have been usurped by some drippy shite from Peter Alexander, who had loads of hits that year, but you can't have everything, I suppose.

[Sam]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

On the day I was born, 'Hello' by Lionel Richie was the UK number one. But that's not Beatles-related (as far as I know).

A song called 'Borrowed Time' by John Lennon, which I've never heard to my knowledge but I'm sure you old folks have, was at number 33 apparently.

And scrolling all the way down, a 1984 re-release of 'Can't Buy Me Love' was at number 68. So there we are.

[Jah Womble]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

You young bastard.

Borrowed Time was the second single from Lennon's posthumous album Milk and Honey, a collection of odds 'n' sods from the post-Double Fantasy sessions. The first 45 (as was) had been Nobody Told Me, which fared better, making the UK Top Ten.

I remember Macca voicing his 'disgust' at fellow-Scousers Frankie Goes To Hollywood in early 1984, and hoping that Lennon would follow his Pipes of Peace to number one. Thankfully for all of us, it didn't work out that way.

[MsD]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

The Beatles weren't yet Beatles when I hatched, but many of my early memories are Beatles related. "She Loves You" was my party piece at 4. I sang it into a microphone to general mirth, which was annoying, as I was deadly serious and sang tunefully with passion, I thought. Crap audience.

I remember my sisters getting up at the crack of dawn to go and greet the Beatles at Heathrow, and it's their voices on the TV clips singing "We Love You Beatles". We had With the Beatles played several times a day (along with The Shangri-las and other gems) and I was given my very own Hard Day's Night EP. So all of that would be 63-65?

Every album up to Sgt Pepper found its way into the house and I think my bigger brother bought a couple of them. I loved the psychedelic Beatles.

Only other memory - my mum was working at the Centre Hotel Heathrow when John and Yoko stayed there - it was the only airport hotel that would accept them, apparently. We got the daily goss but it's nothing I can remember specifically. What they ordered for breakfast etc. She wasn't a fan, unfortunately.

[Sits]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

Finishing touches just being done on Taxman.

[Satchmo Distel]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

Jumping ahead a couple of years to the Maharishi, this is The Unthanks doing an amazing cover of Sexy Sadie, which brings out the dark harmonies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usw_j8jvfNQ

[G-Man]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

Remarkable. Two days ago they finished their three-gig our of West Germany, on the 30th they'll begin their Asia tour. Busy lads.

Here four posters that Bravo magazine published in 1966 of the Germany tour. The one where they receive an award is priceless. George looks un-im-pressed.

[Beatle Simon]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

I follow a few Beatles sites on twitter, and today the entries really highlight the progress of the band in just 3 years;

Today, in 1963, The Beatles started a ten-week tour of British seaside towns (including 4 concerts in Jersey on 6/7 August).

Today, in 1964, The Beatles' world tour finished in Brisbane.

Today, in 1965, The Beatles played Nice, France.

Today, in 1966, The Beatles played the first of 5 shows at The Budokan, Tokyo.

[Beatle Simon]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

G-Man wrote:

Here four posters that Bravo magazine published in 1966 of the Germany tour. The one where they receive an award is priceless. George looks un-im-pressed.

Apart from the crowd-pleasing Paul, none of them seem to be too happy. Candlestick Park was just 2 months away, and it shows.

[Beatle Simon]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

The Beatles' first trip to India on this day:

https://www.beatlesbible.com/1966/07/06/the-beatles-first-trip-to-india/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=postplanner&utm_so urce=twitter.com

[linus]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

And 40 years later, Elizabeth Gilbert was still doing the same westerner seeking enlightenment in Indian ashrams spiel.

[Beatle Simon]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

Happy Birthday, Revolver!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolver_(Beatles_album)

[G-Man]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

It is incredible that Help! came out almost exactly a year before Revolver, on August 6, 1965. The artistic growth in that timespan, during which they toured and recorded another album, is immense.

For those who are interested, here's Revolver in cover versions.

[Sits]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

And just to emphasise that achievement, the "other album" in between was no small undertaking

[Lang Spoon]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

Tomorrow Never Knows still sounds like a cry from the future we never got, even that Chemical Brothers/Eyebrows Gallagher brother "homage" can't ruin it. A more genuinely psychedelic experience than all the sugary queasy music-hall muck on Sgt Pepper's.

Rubber Soul is sharp as a tack and bright as a button, but even their most Forward! songs on it sound total '65.

[Beatle Simon]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

Strawberry Fields Forever was first released in the UK 50 years ago today!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Fields_Forever

[Various Artist]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

Wowzers. And thus, of course, Penny Lane too as they were a double A-side. Listening to both now on the 'Blue Album' as a result of your post, Serge.

This will be the first point in the life of this thread where a Beatles single hasn't/hadn't-50-years-ago gone to Number One in the UK charts, the above pairing famously being held off the top spot by Engelbert Humperdinck's Release Me.

Amazing to read via the Wiki link there how Strawberry Fields Forever was so painstakingly pieced together, apart from anything, which helped give it that remarkable other-worldly sound. It's astounding really that they could knock out things of this quality and then gaily leave them off the forthcoming album, and then it – being Sgt Pepper's – barely suffering for it.

[Sits]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

Good save Serge. I was only think yesterday it must be time for something to be happening on this thread, then forgot.

What VA said - amazing. I'm in a minority who prefer Penny Lane to Strawberry Fields which for some reason isn't one of my favourites.

[Various Artist]

Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

Likewise, actually – I mean, I admire SFF and enjoy it, but Penny Lane is just a pure little cracker of a song.