On This Day in Beatles History

Paul McCartney live: Foro Sol, Mexico City – 28 May 2010
Paul McCartney live: Foro Sol, Mexico City – 28 May 2010
Paul McCartney live: Foro Sol, Mexico City – 28 May 2010 Friday 28 May 2010 | Live, Paul McCartneyForo Sol, Mexico City, Mexico On Friday 28 May 2010, Paul McCartney... Read more...
Paul McCartney live: Parque Bela Vista, Lisbon – 28 May 2004
Paul McCartney live: Parque Bela Vista, Lisbon – 28 May 2004
Paul McCartney live: Parque Bela Vista, Lisbon – 28 May 2004 Friday 28 May 2004 | Live, Paul McCartneyParque Bela Vista, Lisbon, Portugal On Friday 28 May 2004, Paul McCartney... Read more...
Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Riverport Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights – 28 May 2000
Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Riverport Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights – 28 May 2000
Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Riverport Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights – 28 May 2000 Sunday 28 May 2000 | Live, Ringo StarrRiverport Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights, Missouri, USA On Sunday... Read more...
Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Bob Carpenter Center, Newark – 28 May 1997
Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Bob Carpenter Center, Newark – 28 May 1997
Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Bob Carpenter Center, Newark – 28 May 1997 Wednesday 28 May 1997 | Live, Ringo StarrBob Carpenter Center, Newark, Delaware, USA On Wednesday... Read more...
Travel: John Lennon – Cape Town to New York, 28 May 1980
Travel: John Lennon – Cape Town to New York, 28 May 1980 Wednesday 28 May 1980 | John Lennon, TravelCape Town, South Africa → New York, USA On Wednesday 28 May 1980, John Lennon left Cape Town and boarded a flight back to New York. Due to the journey time, he arrived on 29 May. It was the end of a brief and largely private holiday in South Africa — one of the more unexpected entries in the final chapter of Lennon’s life. The South Africa Holiday Lennon had arrived... Read more...
Recording: Oh My Love, Gimme Some Truth by John Lennon – 28 May 1971
Recording: Oh My Love, Gimme Some Truth by John Lennon – 28 May 1971 Friday 28 May 1971 | John Lennon, StudioAscot Sound Studios, Tittenhurst Park, Ascot, BerkshireProducers: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector | Engineers: Phil McDonald, Eddie Klein The eighth recording session for John Lennon’s second solo album Imagine took place on 28 May 1971 at Ascot Sound Studios — the private recording facility built in the grounds of his Tittenhurst Park home. Two songs were worked on: Oh My Love and Gimme Some Truth. It was the... Read more...
The Silver Beetles live: Rescue Hall, Peterhead, Scotland – 28 May 1960
The Silver Beetles live: Rescue Hall, Peterhead, Scotland – 28 May 1960 Saturday 28 May 1960 | Live, The BeatlesRescue Hall, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland On the evening of Saturday, 28 May 1960, The Silver Beetles — the group that would become The Beatles — took to the stage at Rescue Hall in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. It was the final date of the Johnny Gentle Scotland Tour, their first professional engagement. The following morning they boarded a van back to Liverpool, poorer than when they'd left, but with something more valuable than... Read more...
The Beatles live: Top Ten Club, Hamburg – 28 May 1961
The Beatles live: Top Ten Club, Hamburg – 28 May 1961 Sunday 28 May 1961 | Live, The BeatlesTop Ten Club, Reeperbahn, Hamburg, West Germany On Sunday, 28 May 1961, The Beatles performed at the Top Ten Club on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg. It was the 58th night of their longest-ever Hamburg residency — a 92-night run at the club that would prove to be one of the most important periods in the group's development as a live act. By this point, The Beatles were a formidable live band, hardened... Read more...
The Beatles live: Star-Club, Hamburg – 28 May 1962
The Beatles live: Star-Club, Hamburg – 28 May 1962 Monday 28 May 1962 | Live, The BeatlesStar-Club, Große Freiheit 39, Hamburg, West Germany On Monday, 28 May 1962, The Beatles performed at the Star-Club on Große Freiheit in Hamburg. It was the 45th of 48 nights of their first residency at the city’s newest and most ambitious rock ‘n’ roll venue. With just three nights left of this stint, The Beatles were approaching the end of a seven-week engagement that had seen them perform for a total of 172 hours... Read more...
Mixing, master compilation: Let It Be, Get Back album – 28 May 1969
Mixing, master compilation: Let It Be, Get Back album – 28 May 1969 Wednesday 28 May 1969 | Let It Be, StudioStudio One, Olympic Sound Studios, LondonProducer: George Martin | Engineer: Glyn Johns On Wednesday 28 May 1969, engineer Glyn Johns completed one of the most significant — and most overlooked — chapters in Beatles recording history: the compilation of the master tape for the Get Back album. Working at Studio One, Olympic Sound Studios in Barnes, London, Johns also created a stereo mix of Let It Be during the... Read more...
Recording: Wah-Wah, My Sweet Lord, I'd Have You Anytime by George Harrison – 28 May 1970
Recording: Wah-Wah, My Sweet Lord, I’d Have You Anytime by George Harrison – 28 May 1970 Thursday 28 May 1970 | George Harrison, StudioStudio Three, EMI Studios, Abbey Road, LondonProducers: George Harrison, Phil Spector | Engineers: Phil McDonald, John Leckie Thursday 28 May 1970 was the third recording session for George Harrison’s landmark third solo album All Things Must Pass — and the first to feature a full band line-up. Working in Studio Three at EMI Studios on Abbey Road, Harrison and his collaborators tackled the three songs that would... Read more...
The Beatles attend a party at Brian Epstein's country house – 28 May 1967
The Beatles attend a party at Brian Epstein’s country house – 28 May 1967 Sunday 28 May 1967 | Miscellaneous, The BeatlesKingsley Hill, Warbleton, near Heathfield, East Sussex, England On Sunday 28 May 1967, Brian Epstein threw one of the most extraordinary parties of the Beatles’ psychedelic era at Kingsley Hill, his newly acquired country house in Warbleton, near Heathfield in East Sussex. It was part housewarming — Epstein had recently paid £25,000 for the property — and part celebration for the imminent release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club... Read more...