Beatles history - 1966 June
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Wednesday |
`Rubber Soul', 26th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). |
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Wednesday |
Studio 2. 2.30pm-2.30am. Recording: `Yellow Submarine' (overdub onto take 5). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald. Recording of sound effects for `Yellow Submarine'. |
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Wednesday |
From New York, Brian criticizes the imposition of a new mimic ban on television by the Musicians' Union. |
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Thursday |
Studio 2. 7.00pm-3.30am. Recording: `Laxton's Superb' (working title of `I Don't Know', working titles of `I Want To Tell You') (takes 1-5, overdub onto take 3, tape reduction take 3 into take 4). Mono mixing: `Yellow Submarine' (remix 1, from take 5). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald. |
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Thursday |
US magazine `Disc' publishes on front page the photograph originally intended for ``Yesterday'... And Today'.
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Friday |
Studio 2. 7.00pm-2.30am. Recording: `Laxton's Superb' (also `I Don't Know', both working titles of `I Want To Tell You') (overdub onto take 4). Mono mixing: `Laxton's Superb' (also `I Don't Know', both working titles of `I Want To Tell You') (remixes 1-4, from take 4); `Yellow Submarine' (remixes 1-5, from take 5). Producer: George Martin; Engineer; Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald. `Laxton's Superb' changes name to `I Don't Know' during the session. For the first time, bass is separately overdubbed in a Beatles session (`I Want To Tell You'). It is discarded Ringo's spoken intro for `Yellow Submarine'. |
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Friday |
Date of end of recording contract with EMI Records. |
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Saturday |
Appearance on BBC-radio's `Saturday Club'. |
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Sunday |
Interview for the Ed Sullivan Show. |
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Sunday |
Broadcast on the Ed Sullivan Show of clips of `Paperback Writer'/`Rain'.
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Monday |
Studio 3 (control room only). 7.00-12.00pm. Tape copying: `I Want To Tell You' (2 copies of mono remix 1, numbered mono remixes 5, 6). Mono mixing: `And Your Bird Can Sing' (remixes 9, 10, from takes 10, 4); `For No One' (remixes 1-6, from take 14); `I'm Only Sleeping' (remixes 5, 6, from take 13); `Tomorrow Never Knows' (remixes 10-12, from take 3). Studio 3. 12.00-1.30am. Recording: `Eleanor Rigby' (overdub onto take 15). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald. |
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Monday |
Brian forms Nemperor Artists Inc. in New York, with Nat Weiss. |
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Wednesday |
`Rubber Soul', 27th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). |
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Wednesday |
Studio 2 (control room only). 1.00-2.00pm. Editing: `And Your Bird Can Sing' (mono remixes 9, 10). Producer: not assigned; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: not assigned. Studio 2. 2.30pm-2.30am. Recording: `A Good Day's Sunshine' (working title of `Good Day Sunshine') (takes 1-3). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer; Richard Lush. |
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Thursday |
Broadcast on BBC-TV's `Top Of The Pops' of clips of `Paperback Writer'/`Rain'. |
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Thursday |
Studio 2. 2.30-8.00pm. Recording: `A Good Day's Sunshine' (working title of `Good Day Sunshine') (overdub onto take 1). Mono mixing: `A Good Day's Sunshine' (working title of `Good Day Sunshine') (remixes 1-6, from take 1). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald. |
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Friday |
UK single release: `Paperback Writer'/`Rain'.
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Saturday |
Brian receives the article published in the `Palladium' of Richmond, Indiana. |
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13
Monday |
NEMS Enterprises announces that Paddy, Klaus & Gibson have split up. |
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Tuesday |
Studio 2. 7.00pm-2.00am. Recording: `Here, There And Everywhere' (takes 1-4). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald. Recording of vocal harmonies for `Here, There And Everywhere'. |
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Wednesday |
`Rubber Soul', 28th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Paperback Writer', 1st week in the ranking (UK New Musical Express chart). [?] |
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15
Wednesday |
US LP release: ``Yesterday'... And Today', with original butcher's cover. |
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Thursday |
Studio 2. 7.00pm-3.30am. Recording: `Here, There And Everywhere' (takes 5-13, tape reduction take 13 into take 14, overdub onto take 14). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald. Recording of second set of vocal harmonies. |
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Thursday |
Early afternoon. BOAC air terminal at Victoria Station, London. The Beatles receive vaccinations against cholera. Later, the Beatles go on John's Rolls Royce to the BBC Television Centre, London. BBC Television Centre, London. Rehearsal for appearance on BBC-TV's `Top Of The Pops' later this day. Studio 2, BBC Television Centre, London. Surprise live appearance on BBC-TV's `Top Of The Pops', miming `Paperback Writer' and `Rain'.
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Thursday |
Martha is born, in High Wycombe. |
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Friday |
Studio 2. 7.00pm-1.30am. Recording: `Here, There And Everywhere' (overdub onto take 14); `Got To Get You Into My Life' (overdub onto take 9). Mono mixing: `Got To Get You Into My Life' (remixes 3-7, from take 9); `Here, There And Everywhere' (remix 1, from take 14). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald. |
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Friday |
Paul buys a farm in Kintyre, Scottland. |
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Friday |
Appearance on BBC-2's `Line-up Review', re-broadcast of previous night's live appearance on `Top Of The Pops'. |
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Friday |
Ringo and his All-Stars band's concert at the Merriweather Post Pavillion, Columbia, Maryland. |
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18
Saturday |
Appearance on `Thank Your Lucky Stars'. |
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Monday |
US LP release: ``Yesterday'... And Today', with the new cover.
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Monday |
Studio 1 (control room only). 6.00-8.30pm. Mono mixing and Recording: `Got To Get You Into My Life' (tape copy of remix 7 into remix 8 with overdub added from take 8). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald. |
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Tuesday |
Studio 3 (control room only). 10.00am-1.00pm. Stereo mixing: `Granny Smith' (working title of `Love You To') (remixes 1-3, from take 7). Editing: `Granny Smith' (working title of `Love You To') (of stereo remixes 1-3). Stereo mixing: `I Want To Tell You' (remixes 1, 2, from take 4); `Here, There And Everywhere' (remixes 1, 2, from take 14). Mono mixing: `Here, There And Everywhere' (remixes 2, 3, from take 14). Studio 3 (control room only). 2.30-6.30pm. Mono mixing: `For No One' (remixes 7, 8, from take 14); `Doctor Robert' (remixes 4-6, from take 7); `Taxman' (remixes 5, 6, from take 12). Editing: `Doctor Robert' (of remix mono 6); `Taxman' (of mono remixes 5, 6). Stereo mixing: `For No One' (remix 1, from take 14); `Taxman' (remixes 1, 2, from take 12). Editing: `Taxman' (of stereo remixes 1, 2). Studio 2. 7.00pm-3.45am. Recording: `Untitled' (working title of `She Said She Said') (takes 1-3, tape reduction take 3 into take 4, overdub onto take 4). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald. `She Said She Said' gets its title during the session. |
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Wednesday |
`Rubber Soul', 29th and last week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Paperback Writer' number 1, 1st week (UK New Musical Express chart). |
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Wednesday |
Private launch party for the club Sibylla's, London, with attendance of the Beatles. |
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Wednesday |
Studio 3 (control room only). 7.00pm-1.30am. Mono mixing: `Eleanor Rigby' (remixes 4, 5, from take 15); `She Said She Said' (remix 4, from take 4); `Good Day Sunshine' (remix 7, from take 1). Stereo mixing: `Eleanor Rigby' (remix 1, from take 15); `She Said She Said' (remix 1, from take 4); `Good Day Sunshine' (remix 1, from take 1); `Yellow Submarine' (remixes 1, 2, from take 5); `Tomorrow Never Knows' (remixes 1-6, from take 3); `Got To Get You Into My Life' (remix 1, from take 9). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Jerry Boys. End of `Revolver' sessions. |
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Wednesday |
UK single release: `You Make Me Feel Like Someone', with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas. |
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Thursday |
Flight to Munich, with Brian and Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, also included in the tour. |
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Thursday |
Opening night of the club Sibylla's, London. |
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Friday |
Marriage of George Martin and Judy. |
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Friday |
Arrival in Munich. Start of tour of Germany. Concert at the Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich. Hours before the concert, the police discovers a ticket falsification.
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Friday |
It is reported that Klaus Voormann may replace Jack Bruce in the group Manfred Mann. |
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Saturday |
Arrival and concert in Essen, at the Grugahalle. The press announces that a Japanese nationalist group has threatened to cut the Beatles' hair during their next visit to Japan, protesting for their performance at the Budokan Hall.
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Saturday |
`Paperback Writer', number 1. ``Yesterday'... And Today', 1st week in the Top 30 (Billboard). |
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Saturday |
Transmision on `Thank Your Lucky Stars' of clips of `Paperback Writer' and `Rain'. |
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Sunday |
Arrival in Hamburg. Concert at the Erns Merck Halle, Hamburg. End of tour of Germany. In downtown, fans face the police hours before the show. |
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Sunday |
John visits Astrid, who gives him some letters written by Stuart shortly before dying. |
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Monday |
Flight from Hamburg to Tokyo. The plane must land in Anchorage, Alaska, to avoid a typhoon. |
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Tuesday |
Arrival in Tokyo. |
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Wednesday |
`Paperback Writer' number 1, 2nd week (UK New Musical Express chart). |
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Thursday |
Concert at the Budokan Hall, Tokyo.
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