Wednesday, 13 March, 1963
The Beatles made a mid-morning detour from the “Roe/Montez” Tour to stop by the Abbey Road studios in London for a harmonica over-dubbing session on “Thank You Girl.” After the recording session they headed up to York to rejoin the tour at the Rialto Theater, where, with John still sick, they once more […]
Tuesday, 5th March, 1963
In Studio Two, of EMI’s Abbey Road Studios, London, The Beatles record “From Me to You” just five days after John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the song. Originally intended for the B-side of their second single, it is switched to the A-side with “Thank You Girl” on the B-side. They record […]
Monday, 11th February, 1963
In Studio Two of EMI’s Abbey Road Studios, London. The Beatles complete ten songs for their first album in just 585 minutes. While it was not unusual at the time for groups to record an album in a single day, it was unusual for one of this quality to be produced, especially […]
Monday, 26th November, 1962
Thanks to the sucess of “Love Me Do,” which was still slowly climbing up the charts, EMI invited The Beatles back to Studio Two at Abbey Road, London to record a second single.
The Beatles arrived at 6:00pm and after a short rehearsal went into the recording session at 7:00pm and finished at 9:45pm. […]
Tuesday, 11th September, 1962
A hastily scheduled return to EMI Studio Two at Abbey Road to follow up on last week’s recording session. Once again the object was to try and record The Beatles first single. Unsure of Ringo’s studio experience, George Martin had hired session drummer Andy White to sit in. While Andy would provie […]
Tuesday, 4th September, 1962
The Beatles flew from Liverpool airport to London on this morning, checking in to a small Chelsea hotel before heading to the EMI Studios on Abbey Road for a their first official recording session. The previous visit having been classed as an “audition.” The aim of this session was to try and […]
Wednesday, 6th June, 1962
One of the most important days in Beatles history. Today The Beatles played in Studio Two at the EMI Studios at 3, Abbey Road, London for the first time.
The session ran from 7:00 to 10:00pm and started off with The Beatles running through a selection of (undocumented) tunes as an informal audition. Once […]
StarPulse.com reports on an amusing quote from Ringo about his fading memory..
He tells Rolling Stone, “I played on All Things Must Pass - which is funny because George called me (when he was preparing to reissue the album), and said, ‘Ringo, are you on All Things Must Pass?’ I said, ‘I don’t think so. I […]
Wednesday, 25th April, 1962
At some point this week, while still continuing to fulfill their gig at the Star-Club in Hamburg, The Beatles completed another recording session with producer Bert Kaempfert. The session was in effect a “buy out” with Kaempfert insisting on recording two more songs as condition of him agreeing to Brian Epstein’s request […]
Reuters is reporting that the company representing The Beatles has settled a 30 million-pound ($59 million) royalty dispute with EMI Group in a deal that could finally pave the way for the Liverpool band’s music to go online.Apple Corps, the company owned by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of John Lennon and George […]
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Alan J. Porter has been a Beatles fan since he first saw them perform on a regional British TV show back in 1963 when he was just a wee lad. He is the author of the critically acclaimed BEFORE THEY WERE BEATLES and occasional contributor to Beatlology Magazine. He now lives in Central Texas and occasionally writes about things other than The Fab Four. You can find out more here.
