Beatles history - 1963 November
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Friday |
Start of `The Beatles Autumn Tour', 4th UK tour, along with The Brooks Brothers, and Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers. Evening: Concert at the Odeon Cinema, Cheltenham. |
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Friday |
UK EP release: `The Beatles (No 1)'. UK single release: `I Wanna Be Your Man', with the Rolling Stones. UK single release: `I'll Keep You Satisfied', with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
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Saturday |
`Please Please Me' LP number 1, 26th week (UK Record Retailer chart). | |
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2
Saturday |
Concert at the City Hall, Sheffield (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
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Saturday |
The `Daily Express' says that this mass hysteria (over the Beatles) only serves to fill empty heads. | |
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3
Sunday |
Concerts at the Odeon, Leeds (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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Sunday |
2.30-3.00pm. BBC's `The Ken Dodd Show' broadcast (recorded 9 October 1963). BBC's `The Public Ear' broadcast (recorded 9 October 1963). Performance broadcast on the Swedish TV programme `Drop In' (recorded 30 October 1963). | |
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Monday |
`With The Beatles' LP is cut at Abbey Road. | |
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4
Monday |
Appearance on the `Royal Command (Variety) Performance', at the Prince Of Wales Theatre, London. Brian and Dezo Hoffmann attend. BBC-TV films the concert. After, the Beatles retire to the bar of the Mapleton Hotel, 39 Coventry Street, London.
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Tuesday |
Concert at the Adelphi, Slough (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). Concert at the Granada, East Ham (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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5
Tuesday |
`Daily Mirror' headline: `Beatlemania!'. Brian packs the press reports and, in the morning, flies from the London Airport to the Idlewild Airport, New York, with Billy J. Kramer. | |
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Wednesday |
Concert at the ABC, Northampton (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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6
Wednesday |
8.00-8.30pm. BBC's `The Ken Dodd Show' broadcast (recorded 9 October 1963). | |
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Wednesday |
`She Loves You', 10th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 33rd week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). | |
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Wednesday |
Night. Performance at the Star Club. | |
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Thursday |
Concert at the Adelphi, Dublin (`The Beatles Autumn Tour').
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8
Friday |
Concert at the Ritz, Belfast (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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Saturday |
`Please Please Me' LP number 1, 27th week (UK Record Retailer chart). | |
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9
Saturday |
Two performances at the Granada, East Ham, London (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). Concert at the Adelphi, Slough (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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9
Saturday |
The Beatles attend a party at the washing-machine tycoon John Bloom's house, 60 Park Lane, Mayfair, London. | |
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Sunday |
Concert at the Hippodrome, Birmingham (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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Sunday |
Broadcast of `Royal Command (Variety) Performance', BBC-TV (recorded 4 November). | |
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Monday |
Birmingham. The Beatles escape from the crowd disguised as policemen. | |
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11
Monday |
Brian meets Ed Sullivan in New York and negotiates appearances on his show for the Beatles and Gerry and the Pacemakers. Brian gives CBS-TV one year's exclusive rights to the Beatles US television appearances. | |
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Monday |
US single release: `I'll Keep You Satisfied', with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas. | |
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12
Tuesday |
Concert at the Guild Hall, Portsmouth (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). Postponed because of Paul being sick. | |
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13
Wednesday |
Paul's got a flu. Hour after hour, bullettins report his condition. | |
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13
Wednesday |
Concert at the ABC, Plymouth (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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13
Wednesday |
Re-broadcasting of `The Mersey Sound', BBC-TV documentary. | |
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13
Wednesday |
`She Loves You', 11th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 34th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). | |
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14
Thursday |
Concert at the ABC, Exeter (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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Friday |
Concert at the Colston Hall, Bristol (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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Friday |
Start of the first tour promoted jointly by Epstein and Arthur Howes, at the Odeon Cinema, Luton, featuring Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, supported by Johnny Kid and the Pirates, the Caravelles, Tommy Quickly, the Fourmost, and Houston Wells and the Marksmen. | |
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Friday |
US release: `Hello Little Girl', with the Fourmost. UK release: `I'm In Love', with the Fourmost. | |
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Saturday |
`Please Please Me' LP number 1, 28th week (UK Record Retailer chart). | |
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16
Saturday |
Evening. Concert at the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). Filmed by US TV. | |
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Sunday |
Concert at the Coventry Theatre, Coventry (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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Monday |
Newspapers publish that a priest of the Church of England asks the Beatles to record a Christmas song. | |
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Monday |
On a press report, Brian asks the fans not to throw things to the stage during the tour in progress. | |
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Monday |
EMI House, 6th floor boardroom. Lunch, along with Brian and Martin, with EMI highest executives. EMI House, ground floor studio. The Beatles are presented with awards. | |
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18
Monday |
[Possibly.] Evening: John and Paul see the musical `Six Of One' at the Adelphi Theatre. | |
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Tuesday |
Concert at the Gaumont, Wolverhampton (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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Wednesday |
`She Loves You', 12th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 35th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). | |
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Wednesday |
Concert at the Ardwick Apollo, Manchester (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). Filmed by ABC-TV. | |
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Thursday |
Concert at the ABC, Carlisle (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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Friday |
UK LP release: `With The Beatles'.
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Friday |
`With The Beatles' has already sold 300000 copies in advance. | |
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Friday |
Concert at the Globe, Stockton (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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Friday |
It is announced that the next UK Gerry and the Pacemakers tour will be promoted by Brian and Arthur Howes. | |
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Saturday |
`Please Please Me' LP number 1, 29th week (UK Record Retailer chart). | |
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Saturday |
Concert at the City Hall, Newcastle (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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Saturday |
US TV broadcasts the Bournemouth Winters Garden concert (filmed 16 November). | |
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Sunday |
Concert at the ABC, Hull (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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Monday |
Studio Four, Granada TV Centre, Manchester. Granada's Scene (or Scene At 6.30) and Late Scene Extra programmes. One of the last appearances where John still has his first Gibson J-160E guitar. The guitar was stolen soon afterwards.
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Tuesday |
Concert at the ABC, Cambridge (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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Wednesday |
`She Loves You' number 1, 13th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 36th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' enters the ranking on number 1 (UK New Musical Express chart). | |
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Wednesday |
Concert at the Rialto, York (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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Wednesday |
`She Loves You' has sold over 1,000,000 copies in the UK. | |
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Thursday |
Concert at the ABC, Lincoln (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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Friday |
UK single release: `I Want To Hold Your Hand'/`This Boy'.
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Friday |
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' has sold 950 000 copies in advance: a new mark and gold record. | |
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29
Friday |
Concert at the ABC, Huddersfield (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). | |
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Saturday |
`Please Please Me' LP number 1, 30th and last week (UK Record Retailer chart). | |
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Saturday |
Concert at the Empire, Sunderland (`The Beatles Autumn Tour'). |
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