On This Day in Beatles History

Wings rehearse in Nashville – 9 July 1974
On Tuesday 9 July 1974, Wings rehearsed at the farm owned by Nashville songwriter Claude 'Curly' Putman Jr. in Tennessee. The band had been renting the property – using the garage as a rehearsal space – since rehearsals began on 10 June, at a cost of $2,000 a week. The 9 July session was a full run-through of everything the band had worked up since June. It was also the day a set of contracts arrived from MPL Communications – Paul McCartney's management company – that would have formalised the... Read more...
Wings live: Odeon, Leicester – 9 July 1973
Wings live: Odeon, Leicester – 9 July 1973
On Monday 9 July 1973, Wings performed at the Odeon in Leicester, England. It was the 17th night of the Wings 1973 UK Tour – the penultimate show of an... Read more...
Wings live: Châteauvallon, Ollioules – 9 July 1972
Wings live: Châteauvallon, Ollioules – 9 July 1972
On Sunday 9 July 1972, Wings performed at the Centre Culturel de Châteauvallon in Ollioules, in the south of France. It was the opening night of the Wings Over Europe... Read more...
Recording: Maxwell's Silver Hammer – 9 July 1969
Recording: Maxwell's Silver Hammer – 9 July 1969
On Wednesday 9 July 1969, The Beatles began recording 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' at Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey Road. The session ran from 2.30pm to 10.15pm. The producer was George... Read more...
The Beatles finalise deal with Triumph Investment Trust – 9 July 1969
On Wednesday 9 July 1969, The Beatles concluded a series of financial deals with Triumph Investment Trust – agreements that had been months in the making and that represented one of the most significant steps the band took towards controlling their own affairs in the final year of their existence as a group. The deals resolved a crisis that had begun in February 1969, when the Epstein family sold their NEMS shares to Triumph, giving the trust a controlling interest in NEMS Enterprises – the management company founded by Brian... Read more...
Recording: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da / Revolution – 9 July 1968
Recording: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da / Revolution – 9 July 1968
On Tuesday 9 July 1968, The Beatles worked through the night at Studio Three, EMI Studios, Abbey Road – a session that began at 4pm and did not end until... Read more...
Ringo Starr performs on Solomon King's A Hundred Years Or More – 9 July 1968
On Tuesday 9 July 1968, Ringo Starr arrived early for The Beatles' recording session at EMI Studios, Abbey Road. Finding himself with time to spare, he wandered into Studio Two, where the soul singer Solomon King was in the middle of recording a ballad called 'A Hundred Years Or More'. Starr sat in and contributed handclaps to the track. It is one of the more charming footnotes in Beatles history: the drummer of the most famous band in the world, killing time before his own session by clapping along to... Read more...
The Beatles live: Winter Gardens, Margate – 9 July 1963
The Beatles live: Winter Gardens, Margate – 9 July 1963
On Tuesday 9 July 1963, The Beatles returned to the Winter Gardens in Margate for the second of six consecutive nights at the venue. As on the night before, they... Read more...
The Beatles live: Plaza Ballroom, St Helens – 9 July 1962
On Monday 9 July 1962, The Beatles performed at the Plaza Ballroom in St Helens, Lancashire. It was the third of four consecutive Monday night appearances at the venue – a residency-within-a-residency that placed The Beatles at the heart of the Lancashire dance hall circuit at one of the most significant moments in their career. The summer of 1962 was the hinge on which everything turned. Pete Best was still the drummer. Brian Epstein had secured a recording contract with Parlophone. George Martin was waiting at Abbey Road. The Beatles... Read more...
The Silver Beetles live: Grosvenor Ballroom, Wallasey – 9 July 1960
On Saturday 9 July 1960, The Silver Beetles performed at the Grosvenor Ballroom in Wallasey – one of a regular series of Saturday night concerts at the venue that ran through June and July of that year. It was a night like many others in the summer of 1960: a young band, not yet famous, not yet even called The Beatles, playing to a local crowd in a Merseyside dance hall. And yet the Grosvenor Ballroom was not nothing. It was part of the circuit that was making them. Every... Read more...
The Beatles live: Cavern Club, Liverpool (evening) – 8 July 1962
On the evening of Sunday 8 July 1962, The Beatles took to the stage at the Cavern Club on Mathew Street, Liverpool, for their 80th evening performance at the venue. It was their 192nd appearance at the underground club in total, counting both lunchtime and evening shows. It was a Sunday night, which meant the crowd skewed younger and the atmosphere was different from the weekday lunchtime sessions that had become the heartbeat of the Liverpool music scene. The Cavern's evening shows drew teenagers who had spent the week waiting... Read more...
UK EP release: Nowhere Man – 8 July 1966
UK EP release: Nowhere Man – 8 July 1966
On Friday 8 July 1966, Parlophone issued Nowhere Man – The Beatles' 12th official EP – as catalogue number GEP 8952. The release came more than six months after Rubber... Read more...