February 1: TODAY IN BEATLES HISTORY 1962 Start of validity of contract with Brian. Performance at the Thistle Cafe, West Kirkby, Wirral. 1st gig under Brians management. 1963 Preparation for 1st British tour. 3 concert promoters, Arthur Howes, Paul Cave and Harold Fielding, contact Brian, vying for the chance to present Beatles shows at seaside resorts in the summer. 1964 With The Beatles number 1, 9th week (UK Record Retailer). I Want To Hold Your Hand number 1, 3rd week in the Top 100 (US Billboard). I Want To Hold Your Hand number 1, 2nd week (US Cashbox). I Want To Hold Your Hand number 1, 6th week (Australia Kent Music Report). She Loves You, 2nd week in the Top 100 (US Billboard). Please Please Me, 1st week in the Top 100 (US Billboard). Celebration dinner, with Brian, at the George V Hotel, Paris. 1965 US EP release: 4 By The Beatles (Capitol R 5365). Brian announces new plans for Cilla Black: performances on Sunday Night at the London Palladium and at the Persian Room, at the Plaza Hotel, New York. 1966 Merger of the Vic Lewis Organization and NEMS Enterprises commences legally. Vic Lewis becomes a director of NEMS Enterprises. 1967 Studio 2. 7:00pm-2:30am. Recording: Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (takes 1-9). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Richard Lush. Recording of rythm track of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. 1st use of DI (Direct Injection) in Beatles recordings: Pauls bass. Start of proper sessions for Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. 1968 John sends his Rolls Royce to USA, for his personal use. BBC Television Rehearsal Rooms, Victoria Road, London. Ringo rehearses his appearance on the Cilla TV show. 1969 Yellow Submarine LP, 3rd week in the Top 30 (US Billboard). The Beatles number 1, returns for one week (UK Record Retailer.) The Beatles number 1, 6th week (US Billboard). The Beatles number 1, 7th week (Australia Kent Music Report). 1970 Australian mail-order LP release: Magical Mystery Tour And Other Splendid Hits (World Record Club WRC S-4574). 1971 My Sweet Lord number 1, 3rd week (Australia Kent Music Report). 1973 Australian LP release: [i]The Beatles Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2 (Parlophone PCSS 7533/4). 1986 Music publisher Dick James dies of a heart attack. He was 65. He worked with many UK 60s acts including the Beatles. 1988 Clive Epstein dies, in Austria. 1990 Pauls performs in concert at the Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, Michigan (Get Back Tour). 1993 UK album release: Off The Ground (Parlophone CDP 7 80362 2) on CD. 1997 At the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, Yokos art exhibition Have You Seen The Horizon Lately is on display. 1999 In Tampa, Florida, the exhibition of Lindas pictures entitled Sixties is on display at the Tampa Museum of Art. 2008 US space agency NASA announces that Across the Universe by the Beatles is to become the first song ever to be beamed directly into space. The track will be transmitted through the Deep Space Network - a network of antennas - on the 40th anniversary of the song being recorded, being aimed at the North Star, Polaris, 431 light-years from Earth. In a message to NASA, Sir Paul McCartney says the project is an amazing feat. Well done, NASA, he added. Send my love to the aliens. All the best, Paul.
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