Beatles history - 1966 March
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Date Event
1
Tuesday
BBC-TV transmits `The Beatles At The Shea Stadium' film.
2
Wednesday
Brian flies to New York to finish plans for the next Beatles tour.
2
Wednesday
`Rubber Soul', 13th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
4
Friday
UK EP release: `Yesterday'.
Yesterday (EP)
4
Friday
The `Evening Standard' publishes Maureen Cleave's interview to John, with comments on Christianism.
6
Sunday
BBC-TV transmits `The Beatles At The Shea Stadium' film.
7
Monday
Mike Millward, founder and member of the Fourmost, dies in the Bromborough Hospital, Cheshire.
9
Wednesday
`Rubber Soul', 14th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
13
Sunday
Brian presents the first concert by Herp Alpert and the Tijuana Brass in Britain, at the Odeon Cinema, Hammersmith, London. Support acts: the Silkie, and Sounds Incorporated.
16
Wednesday
`Rubber Soul', 15th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
19
Saturday
Seltaeb issues a writ for libel against Brian, NEMS, Geoffrey Ellis and Walter Hofer.
23
Wednesday
`Rubber Soul', 16th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
24
Thursday
World premiere of `Alfie', at the Plaza Cinema, Haymarket, London. Brian, Cilla and the Beatles attend.
25
Friday
Oluf Nissen photographic studio, London. Photographic session with Robert Whitaker. `Butcher' photographs, and 1966 official handout photos taken. Recording of an interview with Tom Lodge released as a flexi-disc record with the `Disc And Music Echo').
26
Saturday
`Nowhere Man' number 3, 1st week (Billboard).
30
Wednesday
`Rubber Soul', 17th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
31
Thursday
New York. Epstein and Tatsuji Nagashima arrange the Tokyo concerts, and Brian secures the UK representation of the Japanese company Nagashima directs, Kyodo Kikaku Inc.
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