Beatles history - 1964 February
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Saturday |
`With The Beatles' number 1, 9th week (UK Record Retailer chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 1st week; 3rd week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `She Loves You', 2nd week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `Please Please Me', 1st week in the Top 100 (Billboard). |
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Saturday |
Celebration dinner, with Brian, at the George V Hotel, Paris. | |
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Monday |
Brian announces his concerts series `Pops Alive!' for the Prince Of Wales Theatre, London, 2 houses a night. Brian announces that Subafilms will produce for worldwide release through United Artists the Gerry and the Pacemakers film `Ferry Cross The Mersey'. | |
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Monday |
US gold certification: `Meet The Beatles!' US gold certification: `I Want To Hold Your Hand'/`I Saw Her Standing There'. | |
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Wednesday |
`She Loves You', 23rd week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 46th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 11th week (UK New Musical Express chart). | |
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Wednesday |
Beatles returns from Paris to London.
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Thursday |
Tickets for the Ed Sullivan Show sell out. | |
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Friday |
Press conference at the Heathrow Airport. 6.30. The Beatles and Brian leave from London to New York (Flight 101, Pan Am). 13.35. Arrival at the US for a 10-day tour, at the Kennedy Airport, New York. Press conference at the Kennedy Airport. The Beatles are taken to the Plaza Hotel. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann is with them at both airports ard during the flight. George gets a flu.
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Friday |
UK EP release: `All My Loving'.
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Friday |
`New Musical Express' reveals that Brian has turned down an 8000 pounds offer for the Beatles to play a concert at the Madison Square Garden. It speculates that the Beatles talked Brian out of a `big deal' with Bernard Delfont. And it says that one can `discount rumours linking Alma Cogan's name romantically with Brian Epstein'. | |
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Saturday |
`With The Beatles' number 1, 10th week (UK Record Retailer chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 2nd week; 4th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `She Loves You', 3rd week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `Please Please Me', 2nd week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `I Saw Her Standing There', 1st week in the Top 100 (Billboard). | |
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Saturday |
Rehearsal for the Ed Sullivan Show performance, at the CBS Studios, New York. | |
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Saturday |
Photographic session in the Central Park, New York. George, sick with fever, stays in bed.
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Saturday |
Start of British tour of Gerry and the Pacemakers, presented by Arthur Howes and Brian. | |
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Sunday |
20.00. 1st live US performance: CBS's Ed Sullivan Show. US rating record (72.7%). In front of a studio audience of just 728, this legendary performance set broadcasting history by being beamed to 23 240 000 homes, reaching an estimated 73 million people. The Beatles performed five songs (All My Loving and others).
Pre-recording of an additional performance for the Ed Sullivan Show.
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Monday |
Press conference at the Plaza Hotel dancing room.
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Monday |
Elvis Presley sends a congratulatory telegram to the Beatles. US `Herald Tribune', about the Beatles: 75% publicity, 20% haircuts and 5% cheerful mournings. US `Daily News', about the Beatles: Elvis performances are nothing compared with the Beatles stage image. | |
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Monday |
UK single release: `I'm In Love', with the Fourmost. | |
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Tuesday |
Snow storm. The Beatles leave to Washington by train. The Beatles stay at the Shoreham Hotel. Gene Loving meets them, Cynthia and Louise Harrison Caldwell in their suite. Later, the Beatles and Gene leave for the Washington Colliseum. 8.30pm. Concert at the Washington Colliseum. Brian and Dezo Hoffmann attend. Performance filmed by CBS-TV. Press conference from the stage, before the show. Party at the British Embassy.
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Wednesday |
Two 25-minute performances at the New York Carnegie Hall. Dezo Hoffmann and Brian attend. British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and US President Lyndon B. Johnson meet at the White House. Johnson says: `I like your advance guard. But don't you think they need haircuts?' | |
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Wednesday |
`She Loves You', 24th and last week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 47th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 12th week (UK New Musical Express chart). | |
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13
Thursday |
Start of stay at Miami. Dezo Hoffmann is with them. | |
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Saturday |
`With The Beatles' number 1, 11th week (UK Record Retailer chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 3rd week; 5th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `She Loves You', 4th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `Please Please Me', 3rd week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `I Saw Her Standing There', 2nd week in the Top 100 (Billboard). | |
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Saturday |
10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Saturday Club' broadcast (recorded 7 January 1964). | |
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Sunday |
2nd performance on the Ed Sullivan Show, at the Deauville's Hotel Mau Mau Club, Miami Beach. 1st act performing twice on this programme. Dezo Hoffmann attends. Brian watches the Ed Sullivan Show performance at his hotel room in Miami. The Beatles have a brief rest in Miami.
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Monday |
Colonel Parker phones Brian from Hollywood to Miami to congratulate him and the group. | |
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Monday |
Cilla Black reaches UK number 1 with `Anyone Who Had A Heart'. From the USA Brian sends her a congratulatory telegram. | |
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Tuesday |
Photographic session of the Beatles and Cassius Clay.
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Wednesday |
Brian flies from New York to England. | |
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Wednesday |
`Please Please Me' LP, 48th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 13th week (UK New Musical Express chart). | |
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Friday |
US single release: `My Bonnie'. | |
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Saturday |
`With The Beatles' number 1, 12th week (UK Record Retailer chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 4th week; 6th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `She Loves You', 5th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `Please Please Me', 4th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `I Saw Her Standing There', 3rd week in the Top 100 (Billboard). | |
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Saturday |
End of stay in Miami. The Beatles leave from Kennedy Airport, USA, to Heathrow Airport, England. Dezo Hoffmann present at the Kennedy Airport. 8.10am. The Beatles arrive in Heathrow Airport, London. 3620 fans crowd the Queen's Building roof, the biggest Beatles reception at this airport.
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Saturday |
Informal ceremony, at the NEMS Moorfields office. Brian celebrates Cilla Black's number 1 presenting her with a gold bracelet watch stuffed with diamond chippings. When Cilla returns home, she discovers that Brian has sent her mother the biggest bunch of flowers she has ever seen. | |
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Sunday |
`Newsweek' front page article about the Beatles. | |
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Sunday |
Transmision of a 3rd Ed Sullivan Show performance (recorded 9 February 1964). The Beatles become the first artists performing 3 times for the programme. | |
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Sunday |
Teddington TV Studios. Recording music and comedy sequences for ABC-TV's `Big Night Out'. | |
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Sunday |
Party thrown by Alma Cogan at her house. The Beatles attend. | |
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Monday |
US `Newsweek' cover story headline: `eeeeeeeeeeeee... EEEEEEEEEEEEE, EEEEEEEEEEEE!'
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Tuesday |
Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm. Recording: `You Can't Do That' (takes 1-9). Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm. Recording: `And I Love Her' (takes 1-2); `I Should Have Known Better' (takes 1-3). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham. Start of `A Hard Day's Night' sessions. | |
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Tuesday |
Mail service vehicles get at George's house with cards and presents. | |
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Tuesday |
The Beatles Film Production Limited is incorporated, with Brian one of its opening directors. | |
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Tuesday |
At his house, Walter Strach throws a birthday party for George. George, angry at seeing the press was invited, attacks the cake and walks out. | |
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Wednesday |
Studio 2 (control room only). 10.00am-1.00pm. Mono mixing: `You Can't Do That' (remixes 1-4, from take 9); `Can't Buy Me Love' (from take 4). Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm. Recording: `I Should Have Known Better' [re-make] (takes 4-22). Studio 2. 7.00-10.00pm. Recording: `And I Love Her' [re-make] (takes 3-19). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham. Remixes of `You Can't Do That' and `Can't Buy Me Love' for the UK and US. | |
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Wednesday |
US LP release: `Jolly What! The Beatles And Frank Ifield On Stage'. | |
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Wednesday |
`Please Please Me' LP, 49th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 14th week (UK New Musical Express chart). | |
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Thursday |
Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm. Recording: `And I Love Her' [re-re-make] (takes 20-21); `Tell Me Why' (takes 1-8). Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm. Recording: `If I Fell' (takes 1-15). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham. | |
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Friday |
UK Polydor single release: `Why (Can't You Love Me Again)'/`Cry For A Shadow'.
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28
Friday |
UK single release: `A World Without Love', 1st by Peter and Gordon. | |
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Friday |
Number 1 Studio, Piccadilly Theatre, London. 6.30-9.00pm. Recording for BBC's `From Us To You' (2nd edition): `From Us To You'; `You Can't Do That'; `Roll Over Beethoven'; `Till There Was You'; `I Wanna Be Your Man'; `Please Mister Postman'; `All My Loving'; `This Boy'; `Can't Buy Me Love'; `From Us To You'. | |
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Saturday |
`With The Beatles' number 1, 13th week (UK Record Retailer chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 5th week; 7th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `She Loves You', 6th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `Please Please Me', 5th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). `I Saw Her Standing There', 4th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). | |
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Saturday |
Transmision of ABC-TV's show `The Big Out' (recorded 23 February 1964). |
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