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Date	Event	Pictures
1 Monday	Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm. Recording: `Matchbox' (takes 1-5); `I'll Cry Instead' (Section A) (takes 1-6) `I'll Cry Instead' (Section B) (takes 7-8); `Slow Down' (takes 1-6). Studio 2. 7.00-10.00pm. Recording: `I'll Be Back' (takes 1-16). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott.
1 Monday	US single release: `You're My World', 1st US single of Cilla Black. US single release: `Sweet Georgia Brown'/`Take out Some Insurance on Me Baby'.
1 Monday	Brian announces plans for the Beatles 1964 Christmas Show, to be presented at the Odeon, Hammersmith, by him and Joe Collins.
2 Tuesday	Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm. Recording: `Any Time At All' (takes 1-7); `Things We Said Today' (takes 1-3). Studio 2. 7.00-10.00pm. Recording: `When I Get Home' (takes 1-11); `Any Time At All' (takes 8-11). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott.
2 Tuesday	Production of the film `Ferry Cross The Mersey' begins.
3 Wednesday	`With The Beatles', 28th week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart).
3 Wednesday	Morning. Prospect Studios, London. Photographic session with photographer John Launois for the US magazine `Saturday Evening Post'. Ringo collapses, suffering from tonsillitis and pharyngitis. A local doctor is summoned. Ringo is taken to the private patients' wing of the University College Hospital, London. Brian and George Martin come up with Jimmy Nicol as Ringo's replacement.
3 Wednesday	Studio 2. 3.00-4.00pm. Rehearsal: `I Want To Hold Your Hand'; `She Loves You'; `I Saw Her Standing There'; `This Boy'; `Can't Buy Me Love'; `Long Tall Sally'. Rehearsal with Jimmy Nicol.
3 Wednesday	Brian is the subject of the 1st programme in a new Redifussion (ITV) series, `Celebrity Game'.
4 Thursday	Studio 2. 2.30-7.00pm. Mono mixing: `Long Tall Sally' (from take 1); `Matchbox' (from take 5); `I Call Your Name' (remixes 1, 2, from takes 5, 7). Editing: `I Call Your Name' (of mono remixes 1, 2). Recording: `Slow Down' (overdub onto take 6). Mono mixing: `Slow Down' (from take 6); `When I Get Home' (remix 1, from take 11); `Any Time At All' (remix 1, from take 11); `I'll Cry Instead' (Section A) (from take 6); `I'll Cry Instead' (Section B) (from take 8). Editing: `I'll Cry Instead' (of mono remixes from takes 6, 8). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham. End of work on EP `Long Tall Sally'.
4 Thursday	End of shootings of film `A Hard Day's Night'.
4 Thursday	19.00. Concert at the Tivoli Gardens, Copenhague. Jimmy Nicol on drums. Start of world tour. Recorded live by AVRO radio, Hilversum. [5 June?]
5 Friday	During their arrival in Amsterdam, fans throw themselves to a channel trying to get near ther Beatles.
5 Friday	Evening: Concert in Amsterdam, on a live TV show. Recording for Dutch television (Vara TV), at the Cafe-Restaurant Treslong, Hillegom, Holland. Recorded live by AVRO radio, Hilversum. [4 June?] In both events, Jimmy Nicol on drums.
5 Friday	Single UK release: `Like Dreamers Do', with The Applejacks. Radio KFWB of Los Angeles releases the single `KFWB Beatles'/`You Can't Do That', with interviwes to the Beatles.
5 Friday	Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, Brian and Tony Barrow fly from London Airport to the US.
6 Saturday	Concert at the Blokker Exhibition Hall, Amsterdam. Jimmy Nicol on drums.
7 Sunday	Debut of Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas on the Ed Sullivan Show.
8 Monday	BBC re-broadcasts `Around The Beatles'.
8 Monday	Brian flies back to London and announces that Gerry and the Pacemakers will star in their own Christmas show.
8 Monday	Vara TV (Holland) screens the 5 June 1964 recording.
9 Tuesday	Studio 3 (control room only). 2.00-5.45pm. Mono tape copying: `I Should Have Known Better'; `If I Fell'; `Tell Me Why'; `And I Love Her'; `I'm Happy Just To Dance With You'; `I'll Cry Instead'; `Can't Buy Me Love'; `A Hard Day's Night'. Mono mixing: `A Hard Day's Night' (from take 9); `Things We Said Today' (from take 3). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott. Copies for Capitol and United Artists. Mix of `A Hard Day's Night' with extended end, just for the film.
9 Tuesday	UK interview LP release: `The Beatles American Tour With Ed Rudy'.
10 Wednesday	`With The Beatles', 29th week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart).
10 Wednesday	Studio 2 (control room only). 10.00-11.00am. Mono mixing: `I'll Be Back' (remix 1, from take 16). Producer: George Martin; Engineer; Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott.
10 Wednesday	Brian Epstein Publications Limited is incorporated.
10 Wednesday	Two performances at the Princess Treatre, Hong Kong. Jimmy Nicol on drums.
11 Thursday	End of Ringo's stay at the University College Hospital, London.
11 Thursday	Australian arrival, in Sydney with Jimmy Nicol. Read the interview on this day
12 Friday	300000 people welcome them on Adelaida's streets. Ringo, with Brian, flies to Australia. Concert at the Centennial Hall, Adelaida, Australia. Jimmy Nicol on drums. Taped for `Beatles Show', Australian radio programme. Read the interview on this day
13 Saturday	Concert at the Centennial Hall, Adelaida, Australia. Jimmy Nicol on drums.
14 Sunday	Morning: Ringo arrives to Sydney Airport. Read the interview on this day
14 Sunday	Melbourne, Australia. Ringo re-joins the Beatles. 5-Beatle press conference. Read the interview on this day
15 Monday	US single release: `Nobody I Know', with Peter and Gordon. US LP release: `Souvenir Of Their American Visit'.
15 Monday	A tape of the Beatles in concert is played on an Australian radio programme called `Beatles Show' (recorded 12 June 1964, in Adelaide).
15 Monday	Two performances at the Festival Hall, Melbourne. Ringo is back on drums.
16 Tuesday	Two performances at the Festival Hall, Melbourne.
17 Wednesday	`With The Beatles' 30th week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart).
17 Wednesday	Two performances at the Melbourne Festival Hall. Taped for the Australian television programme `The Beatles Sing For Shell'.
18 Thursday	Placards reading `We love you Ruby Baby, yes we do' and `Artur's Smarter', a show of support for 75 year-old pianist Artur Rubenstein who was in town for a concert, greet the Beatles arriving in Sydney.
18 Thursday	Concert at the Sydney Stadium, Sydney, Australia.
19 Friday	UK EP release: `Long Tall Sally'. US LP release: `The Beatles' First'.
19 Friday	Two performances at the Stadium, Rushcutter's Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
20 Saturday	Epstein flies from Australia to Waikiki, Honolulu, for a short holiday.
20 Saturday	Concert at the Stadium, Rushcutter's Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
20 Saturday	A critic in the London Times reacts to John's `In His Own Write' by claiming that he thought John was ``In a pathetic state of near illiteracy"".
20 Saturday	The Beatles are interviewed by telephone from Australia for BBC-1's `Roundabout' radio programme.
21 Sunday	Arrival at the Wellington airport, New Zealand.
22 Monday	Studio 1 (control room only). 10.00-11.30am. Mono mixing: `Any Time At All' (remix 2, for the UK, from take 11); `Any Time At All' (remix 3, from the USA, from take 11); `When I Get Home' (remix 2, for the UK, from take 11); `When I Get Home' (remix 3, for the USA, from take 11); `I'll Be Back' (remix 2, for the UK, from take 16); `I'll Be Back' (remix 3, for the USA, from take 16); `And I Love Her' (remix 2, from take 21). Studio 1 (control room only). 11.30am-1.00pm. Stereo mixing: `And I Love Her' (from take 21); `When I Get Home' (from take 11); `Any Time At All' (from take 11); `I'll Be Back' (from take 16); `If I Fell' (from take 15); `A Hard Day's Night' (from take 9); `I Should Have Known Better' (from take 22); `I'm Happy Just To Dance With You' (from take 4); `I Call Your Name' (remixes 1, 2, from takes 5, 7). Editing: `I Call Your Name' (from stereo remixes 1, 2). Studio 1 (control room only). 2.30-5.30pm. Stereo mixing: `Can't Buy Me Love' (from take 4); `You Can't Do That' (from take 9); `Tell Me Why' (from take 8); `Things We Said Today' (from take 3); `Matchbox' (from take 5); `Slow Down' (from take 6); `Long Tall Sally' (from take 1); `I'll Cry Instead' (Section A) (from take 6); `I'll Cry Instead' (Section B) (from take 8). Editing: `I'll Cry Instead' (of stereo remixes from takes 6, 8). Studio 2 (control room only). 5.45-9.00pm. Tape copying: `Slow Down' (copy of 4 June mono remix); `Matchbox' (copy of 4 June mono remix); `Things We Said Today' (copy of June 22 stereo remix). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick. End of `A Hard Day's Night' sessions.
22 Monday	Concert in Wellington, New Zealand.
23 Tuesday	Concert in Wellington, New Zealand.
24 Wednesday	`With The Beatles', 31st week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart).
24 Wednesday	Concert in Auckland, New Zealand.
24 Wednesday	Broadcast of `Let's Find Out', with appearance of Brian, recorded 20 May 1964.
25 Thursday	Concert in Auckland, New Zealand.
25 Thursday	The producing company Fourmost Productions Limited is incorporated, with Brian one of its opening directors.
26 Friday	US LP release: `A Hard Day's Night'.
26 Friday	Concert in Christchurch, New Zealand.
27 Saturday	Concert in Christchurch, New Zealand.
27 Saturday	Broadcast of BBC-1 radio's `Roundabout', with interview to the Beatles (recorded 20 June 1964).
29 Monday	Concert in Brisbane, Australia. End of tour. Disturbances in Brisbane. Fans attack those who throw eggs and vegetables. The police prevents a lynching.
30 Tuesday	Return to London, at the Heathrow airport.

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