On This Day in Beatles History

Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Northern Lights Theater, Milwaukee – 9 July 2008
Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Northern Lights Theater, Milwaukee – 9 July 2008
On Wednesday 9 July 2008, Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band performed at the Northern Lights Theater at the Potawatomi Casino in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was the 14th show of... Read more...
Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: King Center, Melbourne – 9 July 2006
Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: King Center, Melbourne – 9 July 2006
On Sunday 9 July 2006, Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band performed at the Maxwell C King Center for the Performing Arts in Melbourne, Florida. It was the 17th show... Read more...
Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Nautica Stage, Cleveland – 9 July 1995
Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Nautica Stage, Cleveland – 9 July 1995
On Sunday 9 July 1995, Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band performed at the Nautica Stage in Cleveland, Ohio. It was the 17th show of the third All-Starr Band's 50-date... Read more...
Paul McCartney live: Giants Stadium, East Rutherford – 9 July 1990
Paul McCartney live: Giants Stadium, East Rutherford – 9 July 1990
On Monday 9 July 1990, Paul McCartney performed at the Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. It was the 93rd date of the Paul McCartney World Tour – a... Read more...
Recording: You Can't Catch Me by John Lennon – 9 July 1974
On Tuesday 9 July 1974, John Lennon began the New York sessions for his Rock 'N' Roll album at the Record Plant in New York City. Twenty-four boxes of tapes arrived in the city that day, and Lennon spent several hours reviewing the audio before overdubbing fresh vocals onto 'You Can't Catch Me' – a Chuck Berry song whose backing track had been recorded on 11 December 1973. He also taped messages for the producers of the forthcoming stage show John, Paul, George, Ringo… & Bert. The session marked a... Read more...
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...