Beatles history - 1969 December
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Monday |
Royal Albert Hall, London. Concert of Delaney & Bonney & Friends, with guest Eric Clapton. George, Ringo, Pattie and Maureen attend. |
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Monday |
POB single `You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)'/`What's The New Mary Jane' is on hold. |
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Tuesday |
Studio 2 (control room only). 2.30-5.30pm. Stereo mixing: `Lady Madonna' (remix 1, from take 5); `Rain' (remix 1, from take 7); `Octopus's Garden' (remixes 1, 2, from take 32). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: Richard Lush. Remixes of `Lady Madonna' and `Rain' for LP `Hey Jude'. Remix of `Octopus's Garden' without bass, piano, lead guitar, for use as playback on Ringo's appearance on Martin's show `With A Little Help From My Friends'. |
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Tuesday |
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends concert in Bristol. George joins them as guitarist, on tour. First tour of a Beatle since 1966. |
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Tuesday |
John Lennon was selected as one of only three people to be featured and interviewed as `Man of the Decade'. The interview was filmed by ATV on December 2nd as John and Yoko walked the grounds of their Tittenhurst estate in Ascot, Berkshire. The footage was broadcast in Britain on December 30th 1969.
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Friday |
Date announced for the POB single release `You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)'/`What's The New Mary Jane'. |
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5
Friday |
Abbey Road, Room 4. 2.30-5.15pm. Stereo mixing: `Hey Jude' (remixes 20, 21, from take 1); `Revolution' (remix 1, from take 16). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: Neil Richmond. Remixes for LP `Hey Jude'. Last Emerick's session as Beatles' balance engineer. |
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5
Friday |
Ringo and family move from `Brookfields', Elstead, Surrey, to `Roundhill', London. |
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6
Saturday |
Ringo's appearance on the `David Frost Show'. |
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6
Saturday |
`Cold Turkey', 6th and last week in the Top 28 (Billboard). [?] |
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Sunday |
Studio E. BBC Lime Grove Studios. John and Yoko appear on BBC-TV's `The Question Why'. Broadcast live. |
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Monday |
Studio 2. 10.00am-12.15pm. Tape copying with simultaneous recording: `Octopus's Garden' (takes 1-10). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Martin Benge; 2nd Engineer: Richard Lush. Re-recording of Ringo vocal for `Octopus's Garden', bass, lead guitar and piano with outside musicians, for his appearance on the show `With A Little Help From My Friends'. |
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Wednesday |
Ringo appears on the TV programme `Late Night Line up'.
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10
Wednesday |
John and Yoko announce a plan of producing a film called `A6' about a murder, revealing their intention to make public the case of James Hanratty. |
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Wednesday |
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends concert at the Falkoner Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark. |
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Thursday |
Odeon Theatre, Kensington, London. Royal charity world premiere of `The Magic Christian', with attendance of the royal family, Princess Margaret, John and Yoko, Ringo, Peter Sellers, George and Pattie. Before the screening, John and Yoko parade outside the cinema carrying placards declaring `Britain Murdered Hanratty'.
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Thursday |
American promoter Mike Belkin offers $ 2 400 000 at least, for a Beatles 12-day US tour, plus 65 % of profits, up to a limit of $ 8 800 000. The Beatles reject it. |
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12
Friday |
UK LP release: `Live Peace In Toronto 1969'. US LP release: `Live Peace In Toronto 1969'. |
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12
Friday |
UK LP release: `No One's Gonna Change Our World'. Debut of `Across The Universe'. |
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12
Friday |
London premiere: `The Magic Christian'. |
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13
Saturday |
`The Wedding Album' number 182, 1st week in the ranking (Billboard). |
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14
Sunday |
John and Yoko arrive in a white bag inside a white Rolls Royce, at Hyde Park (at Cumberland Gate), to protest for James Hanratty, while Hanratty's father addresses the crowd. Later, Hanratty and the Lennons drive to 10 Downing Street, to present a petition at the Prime Minister's residence. |
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Monday |
Launch of `War Is Over' campaign organized by John and Yoko. Posters and billboards are displayed in 12 important cities around the world. |
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Monday |
The Lyceum, London. `Peace For Christmas' gig in aid of UNICEF, by the Plastic Ono Supergroup (John, Yoko, George, Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, Keith Moon, Delaney & Bonnie, and others). 25 minutes. Last John's performance in Britain. Recorded, included in `Some Time In New York City'. Other acts: the Rascals, Desmond Dekker and the Aces, Blue Mink and Black Velvet. |
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Monday |
BBC broadcasts a 1-hour documentary about John in the programme `Twenty-Four Hours'. |
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16
Tuesday |
Lennon and Yoko go to Toronto to play in the Peace Festival. For 5 days they stay at Ronnie Hawkins's farm near Toronto. |
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16
Tuesday |
`War Is Over! If You Want It' billboards go up in eleven cities around the world. |
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Wednesday |
John announces a plan for a peace festival in Toronto, to take place from 3 to 5 July 1970. |
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Thursday |
John signs 3000 lythographies from his collection `Bag One' at Ronnie Hawkins's farm. |
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Friday |
The 7th Christmas Record is sent to the members of the Fan Club. |
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19
Friday |
John and Yoko meet Marshall McLuhan at the University of Toronto, speaking with him for 45 minutes.
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Saturday |
`The Wedding Album', 2nd week in the ranking (Billboard). |
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20
Saturday |
End of John and Yoko's stay at Ronnie Hawkins's farm. |
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Sunday |
John and Yoko take a train from Montreal to Ottawa. Press conference in Chateau Champlain, Ottawa. |
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Tuesday |
10.30am. The Ottawa press is surprised by the announcement of an imminent meeting of Lennon and Canada Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau. 10.55am. A limousine takes John and Yoko into Canadian Parliament's building, for a 55-minute meeting with Pierre Trudeau. After the meeting, John and Yoko are interviewed by the press. John declares to the Canadian press about his pro-active peace movement: "Peace is no violence, no frustration, no fear," John Lennon said in a C.B.C. interview, "If I smile at you, you're liable to smile back. We're smiling at the world." From the ministerial office the Lennons are driven to the Ministery of Public Health, to meet the Minister of Public Health, John Munro, and members of his department. |
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Tuesday |
John and Yoko return to London. [24 December?] |
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Wednesday |
6.00-7.00pm. Broadcast of Martin's `With A Little Help From My Friends' show, produced by Yorkshire Television, transmitted by IBA, with Ringo, Lulu, the Hollies, Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore, Blue Mink, Pan's People. Ringo sings `With A Little Help From My Friends'. |
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Wednesday |
John and Yoko return to England. [23 December?] |
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27
Saturday |
`The Wedding Album' number 178, 3rd and last week in the ranking (Billboard). Its highest position. |
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29
Monday |
John and Yoko are visited by Hammrick and Leonard, Canadian hypnotizers who intend to help them to stop smoking. John and Yoko fly to Aalborg, Denmark, to visit Kyoko. Paul prepares Heather's birthday party. |
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Tuesday |
John interview with Desmond Morris for ATV's `Man Of The Decade'. Interview was recorded on December 2nd, 1969. |
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Wednesday |
BBC's TV programme `The Man Of The Decade', dedicated to John, is broadcast. `Rolling Stone' nominates John the Man Of The Year 1969. John declares to New Musical Express he is considering to leave the group. |
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