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 [...]
Friday, 19th October, 1962 The Beatles played a lunch time gig at The Cavern. During its second week on the UK pop charts, Love Me Do climbed three spots to #46. As could be expected the previous day’s issue of Mersey Beat had placed Love Me Do at the #1 poistion on its list of “Merseyside [...]
Tuesday, 9th October, 1962 With no engagements booked, The Beatles celebrated John Lennon’s 22nd Birthday by staying over in London visiting freelance music journalists and several pop music papers to promote teh release of Love Me Do.
Monday, 8th October, 1962 The Beatles were originally scheduled to play a lunch time gig at The Cavern, but this was cancelled so they could head down to London to tape an interview for Radio Luxembourg. The interview was taped at EMI House on Manchester Square in London for the EMI sponsored show The Friday [...]
Saturday, 6th October, 1962 The Beatles spent th afternoon at Dawson’s Music Shop in the nearby town of Widnes signing copies of the newly released “Love Me Do.” From there they went on to Hulme Hall in Port Sunlight for an evening gig promoted by the local Horticultural Society.
Friday, 5th October, 1962 Even though they weren’t playing a gig, nor were they in the studio, this was one of the most important days in The Beatles career. On this day the wait was over as EMI released single R45-4949. Also known as Love Me Do / P.S. I Love You – The Beatles [...]
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 [...]
This week saw the official release of Paul McCartney’s new video on YouTube. The video is for the single Dance Tonight. Here it is…Â
Thanks to the fine folks at Maccaspan.com you can listen to Paul McCartney’s new single, “Ever Present Past,” just by clicking on the picture below. – Enjoy.
Monday, 23rd April, 1962 The single “My Bonnie / The Saints” by Tony Sheridan and The Beat Boys (John, Paul, George and Pete), recorded the previous year in Hamburg, is released in the USA on the Decca label.
You are currently browsing the archives for the Singles category.
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.
