 
- 1
End of last season of Star
Club performances. The Beatles fly back from Hamburg to London.
2 The boys fly from London to
Edinburgh, but owing to inclement weather their plane lands at Aberdeen Airport. The group's appearance this
night at the Longmore Hall, Keith has to be cancelled owning to bad weather conditions
3 The Beatles plays at the Two
Red Shoes Ballroom in Elgin.
4 Playing at the Town Hall in
Dingwall. It is announced that the
Beatles are signed as support act to the Tommy Roe - Chris Montez tour.
5 Appearance at the Museum Hall
in Bridge Of Allen. In the `Liverpool Echo', Tony
Barrow announces and comments the release of the second Beatles single.
6 Final night of the tour at
the Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen.
8 Apperance on STV's Round Up
programme singing 'Please Please Me' in Glasgow.
9 The Beatles leaves Scotland
and travels home to Liverpool.
10 Concert at the Grafton Rooms
in Liverpool.
11 First UK release of the
'Please Please Me' single. Cavern Club lunchtime session, followed by a hasty drive down
to the Midlands for to performances, the first being at the Plaza Ballroom in Old Hill.
The boys are unable to make it for the third appearace at Ritz Ballroom, King's Heath,
owing to inclemnt weather conditions.
12 Appearance at the Invicta
Ballroom, Chatham.
13 Trip to Birmingham, with
Brian. Recording of performance for `Thank Your Lucky Stars', at ABC-TV's Birmingham
Studios. National TV debut. During the recording, Brian meets Andrew Oldham.
14 Concert at the Civic Hall in
Ellesmere Port.
16 The Playhouse Theatre,
Manchester. 8.45-9.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Here We Go': `Chains'; `Please Please Me';
`Ask Me Why'; `Three Cool Cats'. Recording of several
interviews for the BBC.
17 Cavern Club lunchtime
session. Evening session at the Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead. Please Please Me' enters the
UK Record Retailer chart.
18 Concert at the Floral Hall
Ballroom, Morecambe. Recording for Radio
Luxembourg: `Carol', `Lend Me Your Comb', and others.
19 Appearance at the Town Hall
Ballrom in Whitchurch. Transmission of performance
in `Thank Your Lucky Stars' (recorded 13 January 1963)
20 Cavern Club night-time
session.
21 EMI House. Promotional
photographic session with Angus McBean. EMI House, ground floor
studio. Recording for Radio Luxembourg's `The Friday Spectacular'. Vee-Jay signs the Beatles to
a short-term US recording contract
22 The Playhouse Theatre,
London. 4.00-5.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Saturday Club': `Some Other Guy'; `Love Me Do';
`Please Please Me'; `Keep Your Hands Off My Baby'; `Beautiful Dreamer'. BBC Paris Studio,
London. 7.00-8.00pm. Recording for BBC's `The Talent Spot': `Please Please Me'; `Ask Me
Why'; `Some Other Guy'.
23 Cavern club night-time
session
24 Playing at the Assembly Hall
in Mold
25 Appearance at teh
Co-operative Hall in Darwen Vee Jay gets US contract to
release Beatles records. 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Here We
Go' broadcast (all 16 January 1963 session but `Three Cool Cats').
26 10.00-12.00am. BBC's
`Saturday Club' broadcast (recorded 22 January 1963). Two night-time dates: at the
El Rio Club, Macclesfield and at King's Hall in Stoke-on-Trent.
27 Rehearsals for the upcomong
tour with Helen Shapiro. During this time they write 'Misery' and give interviews. At
night they perform at the Three Coins Club in Manchester.
28 Concert at the Majestic
Ballroom in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
29 BBC's `The Talent Spot'
broadcast (recorded 22 January 1963).
30 Cavern club lunchtime session
`Please Please Me' number 17,
1st week in the ranking (UK New Musical Express chart).
31 Cavern club lunchtime session
Concert at the Majestic
Ballroom, Birkenhead. 
1
Preparation for 1st British
tour. Two evening concerts: Assembly Rooms, Tamworth and Maney Hall , Sutton Confield. Concert promoters, Arthur
Howes, Paul Cave and Harold Fielding, contact Brian, vying for the chance to present
Beatles shows at seaside resorts in the summer.
2 `Please Please Me' number 47
(UK Melody Market chart). Start of Helen Shapiro Tour,
with Danny Williams, Kenny Linch, Kestrels, and the Red Price Orchestra. 1st Beatles
British tour. Concert at the Gaumont Cinema, Bradford. Performance filmed for complete
transmision on ABC-TV and, later, partial transmision on `Thank Your Lucky Stars'.
3 Break from the tour - Cavern
club lunchtime session
4 The last Cavern club
lunchtime session
5 Concert at the Gaumont,
Doncaster (Helen Shapiro tour).
6 Concert at the Granada,
Bedford (Helen Shapiro tour).
7 Concert at the Regal Cinema,
Wakefield (Helen Shapiro tour).
8 Concert at the ABC, Carlisle
(Helen Shapiro tour). The Beatles are ejected from a ballroom for wearing leather jackets
and causing a nuisance. It is announced that the Beatles will top a package tour of their
own from 18 May.
9 `Please Please Me' number 39
(UK Melody Market chart). Concert at the Empire
Theatre, Sutherland (Helen Shapiro tour).
10 Photographic session with
photographer Cyrus Andrews at the Royal Court Hotel lobby and in and around Sloane Square,
London. Locations: 1) Royal Court Hotel lobby; 2) telephone box; 3) Ford Popular; 4)
letterbox; 5) Royal Court Theatre entrance; 6) King's Arms Public House.
11 Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm.
Recording: `There's A Place' (takes 1-10); `Seventeen' (working title of `I Saw Her
Standing There') (takes 1-9). Studio 2. 2.30-6.00pm. Recording: `A Taste Of Honey' (takes
1-5); `Do You Want To Know A Secret' (takes 1-8); `A Taste Of Honey' (takes 6-7); `There's
A Place' (takes 11-13); `Seventeen' (working title of `I Saw Her Standing There') (takes
10-12); `Misery' (takes 1-11). Studio 2. 7.30-10.45pm. Recording: `Hold Me Tight' (takes
1-13); `Anna (Go To Him)' (takes 1-3); `Boys' (take 1); `Chains' (takes 1-4); `Baby It's
You' (takes 1-3); `Twist And Shout' (takes 1-2). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman
Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham. Recording of `Please Please Me' LP. Photographer
Dezo Hoffmann present.
12 Concerts at the Azena
Ballroom, Sheffield and at the Astoria Ballroom in Oldham
13 Concert at the Majestic
Ballroom in Hull Transmision of performance
for ABC-TV's `Thank Your Lucky Stars'
14 Concert at the Locarno
Ballroom. Ringo proudly boasts that for Valentine's Day each Beatles received more than 30
cards!
15 Appearance at the Ritz
Ballroom in King's Heath.
16 Concert at the Carfax
Assembly Rooms in Oxford.
17 Recording 'Please Please Me'
for `Thank Your Lucky Stars'.
18 Concert at the Queen's Hall
in Widness
19 Evening. Performance at the
Cavern. Before the session the boys receive a telegram stating that their second single is
number one in the coming week's NME chart.
20 Studio 1. 10.30am-1.00pm.
Recording: `Misery' (overdub takes 12-16); `Baby It's You' (overdub takes 4-6). Producer:
George Martin; Engineer: Stuart Eltham; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick. Martin adds piano to
`Misery' and celeste to `Baby It's You'. 1st Emerick's session. The Playhouse Theatre,
Manchester. 12.31-1.30pm. Recording and broadcasting of BBC's `Parade Of The Pops': `Love
Me Do'; `Please Please Me'. 1st live show for the BBC. Night time show at the St
James's Street Swimming Baths in Doncaster
21 Playing at the Majestic
Ballroom in Birkenhead
22 This day's issue of the `New
Musical Express' reports, erroneously, that `Keep Your Hands Off My Baby' was recorded
during sessions for `Please Please Me' LP. `Please Please Me' single
number 1, 1st week, sharing this position with Frank Ifield's `The Wayward Wind' (UK `New
Musical Express' chart). Brian invites the Beatles to a restaurant in Soho to celebrate. Brian is made an opening
director of Northern Songs Limited.
23 `Please Please Me' number one
in Disc's chart. Concert at the Mansfield,
Granada (Helen Shapiro Tour). First appearance on ABC's
`Thank Your Lucky Stars' (filmed 17 February 1963).
24 Concert at the Coventry
Theatre, Coventry (Helen Shapiro tour).
25 US single release: `Please
Please Me'/`Ask Me Why'. Break from tour performing
separately at the Casino Ballroom in Leigh Studio 1 (control room only).
10.00am-1.00pm. Editing: `Seventeen' (working title of `I Saw Her Standing There') (of
takes 9, 12). Mono mixing: `Anna (Go To Him)' (from take 3); `Boys' (from take 1);
`Chains' (from take 1); `Misery' (from take 16); `Do You Want To Know A Secret' (from take
8); `There's A Place' (from take 13); `Seventeen' (working title of `I Saw Her Standing
There') (from edit of takes 9, 12); `Twist And Shout' (from take 1); `A Taste Of Honey'
(from take 7). Stereo mixing: `Anna (Go To Him)' (from take 3); `Boys' (from take 1);
`Chains' (from take 1); `Misery' (from take 16); `Baby It's You' (from take 5); `Do You
Want To Know A Secret' (from take 8); `There's A Place' (from take 13); `Seventeen'
(working title of `I Saw Her Standing There') (from edit of takes 9, 12); `Twist And
Shout' (from take 1); `A Taste Of Honey' (from take 7). Studio 1 (control room only).
2.30-5.45pm. Editing: `Please Please Me' (of takes 16, 17, 18). Mono mixing: `Ask Me Why'
(from take 6); `Misery' (from take 16); `Baby It's You' (from take 5). Stereo mixing: `Ask
Me Why' (from take 6); `Please Please Me' (from edit of takes 16-18); `Love Me Do' (from
11 September 1962 mono remix); `P.S. I Love You' (from 11 September 1962 mono remix);
`Misery' (from take 16). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: A.
B. Lincoln. Mixing of versions for `Please Please Me' LP masters.
26 Concert at the Gaumont
Cinema, Taunton (Helen Shapiro Tour).
27 Concert at the Rialto, York
(Helen Shapiro tour).
28 Paul and John compose `From
Me To You' on the artists car going from York to Shrewsbury, during the Helen Shapiro
tour. Concert at the Granada, Shrewsbury (Helen Shapiro tour). Brian and Dick James
officially found Northern Songs Ltd. 
1
Concert at the Odeon,
Southport (Helen Shapiro Tour). UK single release: `How Do
You Do It', debut of Gerry and the Pacemakers. `Please Please Me' single
number 1, 2nd week (UK New Musical Express chart).
2 `Please Please Me' single
number 1, 1st week (UK Melody Market chart). Concert at the City Hall,
Sheffield (Helen Shapiro tour).
3 Concert at the Gaumont,
Hanley. End of Helen Shapiro tour, 1st Beatles British tour. Helen Shapiro asks the
Beatles a song.
5 EMI House, George Martin's
4th floor office, London. Photographic session with Angus McBean, changing clothes. EMI
House, spiral staircase to the basement, London. Photographic session with Angus McBean.
Montague Place, London. Photographic session with 3 photographers, between the 2nd and 3rd
parking meters nearest to the junction of Montague Place with Malet Street. George Martin
is present. They all arrived from EMI House, and later went to EMI Studios in Abbey Road.
Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm. Recording: `From Me To You' (takes 1-13); `Thank You Little Girl'
(working title of `Thank You Girl') (takes 1-13). Studio 2. 7.00-10.00pm. Recording: `The
One After 909' (takes 1-5). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer:
Richard Langham. Start of sessions for `From Me To You'/`Thank You Girl'. 1st attempt to
record `What Goes On'. Failed. Abbey Road Studios.
Photographic session with EMI staff photographers (Edgar Brind among them) on the front
steps. Dezo Hoffmann takes pictures of this session.
6 The Playhouse Theatre,
Manchester. 8.00-8.45pm. Recording for BBC's `Here We Go': `Misery'; `Do You Want To Know
A Secret'; `Please Please Me'; `I Saw Her Standing There'. Only live take of `Do You Want
To Know A Secret'. 1st time `Do You Want To Know A Secret' and `Misery' are heard by the
public. Last performance for `Here We Go'.
7 Brian organizes the 1st of
the new concert series, `Mersey Beat Showcase', with The Beatles, Gerry and the
Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, and the Big Three.
8 Concert at the Royal Hall in
in Harrogate The prefix `45-' is dropped
off EMI singles catalogue numbers. `Please Please Me' single
number 1, 3rd week (UK New Musical Express chart).
9 Concert at the Granada, East
Ham. Two performances. Start of the Chris Montez and Tommy Roe Tour, 2nd Beatles British
tour.
10 Concert at the Hippodrome,
Birmingham .
11 EMI House, ground floor
studio. Recording the third and final performance for Radio Luxembourg's `The Friday
Spectacular'.
12 Concert at the Granada,
Bedford . Partially recorded for today's BBC `Here We Go' edition. John gets a cold and
can not play. The others play as a trio. 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Here We
Go' broadcast (6 March 1963 session).
13 Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm.
Recording: `Thank You Little Girl' (working title of `Thank You Girl') (overdub takes
14-28). Editing: `Thank You Little Girl' (working title of `Thank You Girl') (of takes 6,
13, 17, 20, 21, 23). Mono mixing: `Thank You Little Girl' (working title of `Thank You
Girl') (from edit of takes 6, 13, 17, 20, 21, 23). Stereo mixing: `Thank You Little Girl'
(working title of `Thank You Girl') (from edit of takes 6, 13, 17, 20, 21, 23). Producer:
George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick. Concert at the Rialto, York .
John still unable to play.
14
Concert at the Gaumont,
Wolverhampton. John still unwell. Studio 2 (control room only).
10.00am-1.00pm. Editing: `From Me To You' (of unknown take number). Mono mixing: `From Me
To You' (from edit of unknown take number). Stereo mixing: `From Me To You' (from edit of
unknown take number). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: unknown; 2nd Engineer: unknown.
End of work on `From Me To You'/`Thank You Girl'.
15 `Please Please Me' single
number 1, 4th and last week (UK New Musical Express chart). Concert at the Colston Hall,
Bristol . John returns to the stage.
16 Studio 3A, Broadcasting
House, London. 10.00am-12.00noon. Recording and broadcasting live for BBC's `Saturday
Club'. `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Misery'; `Too Much Monkey Business'; ``I'm Talking
About You'; `Please Please Me'; `The Hippy Hippy Shake'. Only BBC take of `I'm Talking
About You'. Concert at the City Hall,
Sheffield .
17 Concert at the Embassy,
Peterborough .
18 Concert at the Regal Cinema,
Gloucester .
19 Concert at the Regal Cinema,
Cambridge .
20 Concert at the ABC, Romford .
21 Number 1 Studio, Piccadilly
Theatre, London. 1.00-2.00pm. Recording for BBC's `On The Scene': `Misery'; `Do You Want
To Know A Secret'; `Please Please Me'. Concert at the ABC, West
Croydon .
22 UK LP release: `Please Please
Me' (mono version). UK single release: `Misery', with Kenny Lynch. 1st cover of a Beatles
song. Performance at EMI House,
Manchester Square, London. Presentation of silver disc for LP `Please Please Me'.
Photographer present: Dezo Hoffmann. Performance at the Gaumont,
Doncaster.
23 Concert at the City Hall,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
24 Concert at the Empire,
Liverpool . Photographer present: Dezo Hoffmann.
25 The Beatles shoot an 8 mm.
film in Liverpool. First publicity shots by Dezo Hoffmann.
26 Concert at the Granada,
Mansfield .
27 `Please Please Me' LP number
9, 1st week in the ranking (UK New Musical Express chart). Concert at the ABC,
Northampton .
28 Concert at the ABC, Exeter .
Partially recorded for today's edition of `On The Scene'. 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `On The
Scene' broadcast (recorded 21 March 1963).
29
Performance at the Odeon,
Lewisham . Two shows.
30 Concert at the Guildhall,
Portsmouth .
31 Concert at the De Montfort
Hall, Leicester also the end of the Chris Montez and Tommy Roe tour. 
1 Performance in the `Poll
Winner's Concert', at the Wembley Empire Pool, organized by `New Musical Express'. Number 1 Studio, Piccadilly
Theatre, London. 2.30-6.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Side By Side': `Side By Side'; `I Saw
Her Standing There'; `Do You Want To Know A Secret'; `Baby It's You'; `Please Please Me';
`From Me To You'; `Misery'. 1st `Side By Side' performance. Number 1 Studio, Piccadilly
Theatre, London. 6.30-10.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Side By Side': `Side By Side'; `From
Me To You'; `Long Tall Sally'; `A Taste Of Honey'; `Chains'; `Thank You Girl'; `Boys'.
3 The Playhouse Theatre.
8.30-9.45pm. Recording for BBC's `Easy Beat': `Please Please Me'; `Misery'; `From Me To
You'. Only live take of `Misery'. `Please Please Me' LP, 2nd
week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
4 BBC Paris Studio, London.
11.00am-2.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Side By Side': `Side By Side'; `Too Much Monkey
Business'; `Love Me Do'; `Boys'; `I'll Be On My Way'; `From Me To You'. After BBC session,
photographic sessions with Dezo Hoffmann at mens-wear store Cecil Gee, London, and outside
the BBC Paris Studio. After BBC session, the Beatles drive to Stowe School,
Buckinghamshire. Performance at the Roxburgh Hall, Stowe School. Photographer David Magnus
takes pictures of the performance, and at the Marble Hall. The Beatles spend the night at
the Green Man Hotel, in the village of Syresham, Buckinghamshire.
5 EMI House, ground floor
studio. Performance before EMI executives, journalists and photographers from British pop
newspapers. The Beatles are presented with awards. Evening. New Public Baths, Leyton,
London. Main Bath Hall. Beatles live performance.
6 Concert at the Pavilion
Gardens Ballroom in Buxton
7
Apperance at the Savoy Ballroom
in Southsea 10.31-11.30am. BBC's `Easy Beat'
broadcast (recorded 3 April 1963).
8 Morning: John Charles Julian
Lennon is born at the General Hospital, Sefton, Liverpool. John phones to the hospital.
9 Live interview for the BBC radio
programme ‘Pop Inn’ Wembley TV Studios, Wembley,
Middlesex. Live appearance on Associated-Rediffusion's `Tuesday Rendezvous'. Evening concert at the State
Gaumont Cinema in Kilburn
10 Concert at the Majestic Ballroom
in Birkenhead `Please Please Me' LP, 3rd week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
11 Co-operative Hall, Middletown.
12 Performance at the Cavern, with
Faron's Flamingos, the Roadrunners and the Dennisons. UK single release: `From Me To
You'/`Thank You Girl'.
13 Studio E, BBC Lime Grove
Studios, London. Filming appearance on BBC-TV's `The 625 Show'. 1st BBC-TV appearance.
Evening. Home of Bruce Welch, 157 Headstone Lane, North Harrow, Middlesex. Party thrown by
Welch. The Beatles attend. They meet Cliff Richard for the first time.
14 Teddington TV Studios,
Middlesex. Filming for ABC-TV's `Thank Your Lucky Stars'. After they drive to the
Crawdaddy Club. Evening. The Beatles see the Rolling Stones at the Crawdaddy Club,
Richmond, Surrey, London. After the show, party at Jagger, Jones and Richards's flat (102
Edith Grove, West Brompton, London). The Beatles attend, staying until 4am.
15 John escapes to Liverpool to
visit Cynthia and see Julian for the first time at the General Hospital, Sefton. He
announces he chose Brian as godfather, and that he will soon leave with him on vacation to
Spain. Concert at the Riverside Dancing
Club in Tembury Wells
16 BBC-TV's `625 Show' broadcast
(filmed 13 April 1963). Live television appearance on
Granada’s Scene at 6:30 from Manchester
17 Concert at the Majestic Ballroom
in Luton. It is announced that the Beatles is added to the annual NEMS poll-winners
concert bill. `Please Please Me' LP, 4th week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
18 The Royal Albert Hall, London.
9.10-10.15pm. Broadcasting live BBC's `Swingin' Sound '63': `Twist And Shout'; `From Me To
You'. Only appearance on live concerts at the Albert Hall transmitted by the BBC. The bill
includes Del Shannon, who decides to record a Beatles' song. Jane attends `Swingin' Sound
'63' with reporter Tony Aspler, of `Radio Times', to give him her impressions of the show.
After the concert at the Albert Hall, Paul meets Jane.
19 Another ‘Mersey Beat
Showcase’ concert at the King’s Hall in Stoke-on-Trent.
20 Performing at the Mesrsey View
Pleasure Grounds Ballroom in Frodsham.
21 Afternoon. Empire Pool, Wembley,
Middlesex. Performance for the `New Musical Express' Poll Winner's concert. Concert at the Pigalle night
club, London.
22 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Side By
Side' broadcast (recorded 1 April 1963).
23 Concert at the Floral Hall,
Southport
24 `Please Please Me' LP, 5th week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). Performance at the Majestic
Ballroom, Finsbury Park, London (`Mersey Beat Showcase' banner).
25 Performance at the Fairfield
Hall, Croydon, Surrey (`Mersey Beat Showcase' banner).
26 Concert at the Music Hall in
Shrewsbury. UK LP release: `Please Please
Me' (stereo version).
28 Paul, George and Ringo flies to
Santa Cruz to stay with German friends. Brian and John fly to Spain
for vacation. 
1 `Please Please Me' LP, 6th
week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). Tony Barrow becomes the
Beatles' press agent.
2 `From Me To You' number 1 (UK
Record Retailer chart). Issue of `Radio Times', with
Tony Aspler's report on the show `Swingin' Sound '63' and picture of Jane screaming for
the Beatles.
4 `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 1st week (UK Melody Market chart?). `From Me To You' number 1, 1st week (UK Melody
Market chart?).
8 `Please Please Me' LP, 7th
week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
9 All four Beatles return to
London from holiday
10 George recommends the Rolling
Stones to Dick Rowe, of Decca A & R.
11 `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 1st week (UK Record Retailer chart). Concert at the Imperial
Ballroom, Nelson.
12 The Beatles record another
appearance on ABC-TV’s ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’ performing ‘From Me To
You’.
13 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Side By
Side' broadcast (recorded 1 April 1963).
14 Concert at the Rink Ballroom,
Sutherland.
15 `Please Please Me' LP, 8th
week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). Concert at the Royalty,
Chester.
16
BBC Television Theatre,
London. Appearance on BBC-TV's `Pops And Lenny'. Transmitted live.
17 Concert at the Grosvernor
Rooms, Norwich. Jaep Music Limited, music
publishing company, is incorporated, with Brian and Dick James opening directors.
18 `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 2nd week (UK Record Retailer chart). Performance at the Adelphi
Cinema in Slough. Start of third British tour, with Roy Orbison and Gerry and the
Pacemakers. The Beatles are presented with a silver disc for `From Me To You'.
19 Concert at the Gaumont,
Hanley .
20 Concert at the Gaumont,
Southampton .
21 The Playhouse Theatre,
London. 5.30-6.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Saturday Club': `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Do
You Want To Know A Secret'; `Boys'; `Long Tall Sally'; `From Me To You'; `Money (That's
What I Want)'. The Playhouse Theatre,
London. 7.15pm. Recording for BBC's `Steppin' Out': `Please Please Me'; `I Saw Her
Standing There'; `Roll Over Beethoven'; `Thank You Girl'; `From Me To You'; `Twist And
Shout'. 1st BBC take of `Roll Over Beethoven'.
22 `Please Please Me' LP, 9th
week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). Concert at the Gaumont,
Ipswich .
23 Concert at the Odeon,
Nottingham . while compere Tony Marsh is on stage, the boys hide in the orchestra pit
below him making rude gestures to ruin his act.
24 Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian
Hall, London. 2.00-6.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles';
`From Me To You'; `Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby'; `Do You Want To Know A Secret'; `You
Really Got A Hold On Me'; `Misery'; `The Hippy Hippy Shake'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. 1st
performance for `Pop Go The Beatles'. Evening: Two performances at
the Granada, Walthamstowe, London .
25 `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 3rd week (UK Record Retailer chart). Performance at the City Hall,
Sheffield . Partially recorded for BBC's `Saturday Club'. 10.00-12.00am. BBC's
`Saturday Club' broadcast (recorded 21 May 1963).
26 Concert at the Empire,
Liverpool .
27 US single release: `From Me
To You'/`Thank You Girl'. Concert at the Capitol
Cinema, Cardiff
28 Concert at the Gaumont,
Worcester .
29 `Please Please Me' LP, 10th
week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). Concert at the Rialto, York .
30 Concert at the Odeon,
Manchester .
31 Concert at the Odeon,
Southend . Signing of agency contract of
NEMS Enterprises and Freddie Starr and the Midnighters. Another new group for Brian: the
Fourmost. 
1 `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 4th week (UK Record Retailer chart). Two performances at the
Granada, Tooting, London . BBC Paris Studio, London.
1.30-5.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `Too Much
Monkey Business'; `I Got To Find My Baby'; `Youngblood '; `Baby It's You'; `Till There Was
You'; `Love Me Do'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. Only available take of `Youngblood'. BBC Paris Studio, London.
9.30am-1.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `A Shot Of
Rythm And Blues'; `Memphis Tennessee'; `A Taste Of Honey'; `Sure To Fall (In Love With
You)'; `Money (That's What I Want)'; `From Me To You'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. Brian, present at BBC Paris
Studio, London, for the recording of `Pop Go The Beatles', meets Sean O'Mahoney and
discusses the possibility of a weekly magazine dedicated to the Beatles being published.
2 Concert at the Hippodrome,
Brighton .
3 10.00-11.15pm. BBC's
`Steppin' Out' broadcast (recorded 21 May 1963). Two performances at the
Granada, Woolwich .
4 Concert at the Town Hall,
Birmingham . 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go
The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 25 May 1963).
5 `Please Please Me' LP, 11th
week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). Concert at the Odeon, Leeds .
7 Concert at the Odeon, Glasgow
.
8 `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 5th week (UK Record Retailer chart). Concert at the City Hall,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne . Magazine `Valentine'
publishes photographs of the Beatles at the swimming pool of the University of London
Union.
9 Concert at the King
George’s Hall, Blackburn. End of 3rd British tour.
10
Concert at the Pavilion, Bath
11 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The
Beatles' broadcast (recorded 1 June 1963).
12 Charity performance for NSPCC at
the Grafton Ballroom, Liverpool. `Please Please Me' LP, 12th week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). The London `Daily Sketch'
reproduces charts of `Melody Maker' (Britain) and `Cash Box' (USA). Acts managed by Brian occupy
places 1, 2 and 3 of the New Musical Express chart.
13
Two performaces: Palace Theatre
Club, Offerton and Southern Sporting Club, Manchester.
14 7.30pm, 11.30pm. Concert at the
New Brighton Tower, Liverpool, with Gerry and the Pacemakers, plus 5 support groups. After
the concert Pul is stopped by the police for speeding in Birkenhead.
15 `Please Please Me' LP number 1,
6th week (UK Record Retailer chart). Performance at City Hall,
Fisherton Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
16 Performance at the Odeon,
Romford, with Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
17 Studio Number 5, BBC Maida Vale
Studios, London. 10.30am-1.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The
Beatles'; `Anna (Go To Him)'; `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Boys'; `Chains'; `P.S. I Love
You'; `Twist And Shout'; `Pop Go The Beatles'; `A Taste Of Honey'. Last programme of the
series `Pop Go The Beatles', according to the initial plans. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann
takes pictures of the Beatles during the session and having lunch in the BBC staff
restaurant. After the recording session, Hoffmann photographs the Beatles `bumping' Paul
(celebrating his 21st birthday) in the middle of Delaware Road.
18 Paul's birthday party, at aunt
Gin's house, in Huyton. John has a fight with Bob Wooler. 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The
Beatles' broadcast (recorded 1 June 1963).
19 `Please Please Me' LP, 13th week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). The Playhouse Theatre, London.
8.45-9.45pm. Recording for BBC's `Easy Beat': `Some Other Guy'; `A Taste Of Honey'; `Thank
You Girl'; `From Me To You'. 1st time Ringo uses his Ludwig drum kit in a live
performance. Photographer present: Dezo Hoffmann.
20 The production company The
Beatles Limited is incorporated, with Brian one of its opening directors.
John appologizes Bob Wooler for his behaviour.
21 Performance at the Odeon
Cinema in Guilford
22 `Please Please Me' LP number 1,
7th week (UK Record Retailer chart). BBC Television Theatre, London.
John tapes an appearance as jury on BBC-TV's `Juke Box Jury'. Paul, George and Ringo leave
from London to Abergavenny in the group's van. London. Mid-evening. Westland Heliport.
John boards a chartered chopper and flies to Abergavenny. Couple of hours later.
Performance at the Town Hall, Abergavenny.
23 Recording appearance for
‘Lucky Stars’ 10.31-11.30am. BBC's `Easy Beat'
broadcast (recorded 19 June 1963).
24 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Side By
Side' broadcast (recorded 4 July 1963). The Playhouse Theatre, London.
5.30-6.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Saturday Club'; `I Got To Find My Baby'; `Memphis,
Tennessee'; `Money (That's What I Want)'; `Till There Was You'; `From Me To You'; `Roll
Over Beethoven'.
25 Concert at the Astoria in
Middlesbrough. 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go The
Beatles' broadcast (all 17 June 1963 session but `A Taste Of Honey').
26 `Please Please Me' LP, 14th week
in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). John and Paul compose `She Loves
You' at their hotel room in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Concert at the Majestic Ballroom
in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
27 Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas
record `Bad To Me'/`I Call Your Name' at Abbey Road. Paul attends.
28 Concert at the Queen's Hall,
Leeds.
29
`Please Please Me' LP number 1, 8th week (UK Record Retailer chart). Broadcast of `Juke Box Jury',
with John's appearance as judge (recorded 22 June 1963). Broadcast of `Thank Your Lucky
Stars', with recording of the Beatles and other Liverpool groups, under the name `Mersey
Beat'. 10.00-12.00am. BBC's `Saturday
Club' broadcast (recorded 24 June 1963).
30 First summer seaside concert at
the ABC Cinema in Great Yarmouth. 
1 Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm.
7.00-10.00pm. Recording: `She Loves You' (takes unknown); `Get You In The End' (working
title of `I'll Get You') (takes unknown). Producer: George Martin; Engineer; Norman Smith;
2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick. Start of sessions for the single `She Loves You'/`I'll Get
You'. Alley to the left of Abbey
Road Studios. During a break in the recording session, photographic session.
2 Number 5 Studio, BBC Maida
Vale Studios, London. 6.30-9.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The
Beatles'; `That's Alright Mama'; `There's A Place'; `Carol'; `Soldier Of Love (Lay Down
Your Arms)'; `Lend Me Your Comb'; `Clarabella'; `Pop Go The Beatles'; `Three Cool Cats';
`Sweet Little Sixteen'; `Ask Me Why'. Only BBC take of `That's Alright Mama'. Dezo Hoffmann's `A Day In The
Life Of The Beatles' sessions: 1) Room 114, HOtel President; 2) Reception area, Hotel
President; 3) Guildford Street, walking towards Russell Square; 4) Russell Square Gardens;
5) Rupert Street (buying bananas at a stall on the corner at 5-7 Brewer Street); 6) Dougie
A. Millings and Son, tailors; 7) Delicatessen Shop; 8) Shirtmaker Mr A Maknyick's shop; 9)
Rupert Court; 10) Buying ice cream at Kontact café; 11) 27 Wardour Street, in front of
the Garner's restaurant; 12) Dezo Hoffmann's studio (to take portraits of John and
George).
3 `Please Please Me' LP, 15th
week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). The Playhouse Theatre,
Manchester. 8.00-9.00pm. Recording for BBC's `The Beat Show': `From Me To You'; `A Taste
Of Honey'; `Twist And Shout'.
4 Studio 2 (control room only).
10.00am-1.00pm. Editing: `She Loves You' (of takes unknown). Mono mixing: `She Loves You'
(from edit of unknown take number); `Get You In The End' (working title of `I'll Get You')
(from unknown take number). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: unknown; 2nd Engineer:
unknown. End of sessions for `She Loves You'/`I'll Get You'. 1.00-1.30pm. BBC's `The Beat
Show' broadcast (recorded 3 July 1963). The Beatles with Peter Asher
see for the second time the Rolling Stones, performing at `The Scene', 41 Great Windmill
Street, London.
5 Brian verbally agrees on the
Beatles doing a tour of Australia in 1964. Concert at the Plaza
Ballroom, Oldhill. It is publickly admitted for
the first time that John is married.
6 Concert at the Victory
Memorial Hall in Norwitch. Before the gig the Beatles joins the annual Norwitch Carnival. `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 9th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
7 Ringo celebrates his birthday
with relatives and musician friends. Concert at the ABC,
Blackpool.
8 Beginning of performances at
the Winter Gardens, Margate, with Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas.
9 Concert at the Winter
Gardens, Margate.
10 `Please Please Me' LP, 16th
week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian
Hall. 10.30am-1.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles';
`Sweet Little Sixteen'; `A Taste Of Honey'; `Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves On The
Trees)'; `Love Me Do'; `Lonesome Tears In My Eyes'; `So How Come (No One Loves Me)'; `Pop
Go The Beatles'. Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian
Hall. 1.30-3.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles';
`Memphis, Tennessee'; `Do You Want To Know A Secret'; `Till There Was You'; `Matchbox';
`Please Mister Postman'; `The Hippy Hippy Shake'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. Evening: another night ath
the Winter Gardens in Margate.
11 Performance at the Winter
Gardens, Margate, with Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas.
12 UK EP release: `Twist And
Shout'. UK EP release: `My Bonnie'. A new concert promotion
company, NEMS Presentations Limited, is incorporated, with Brian one of the opening
directors. Performance at the Winter
Gardens, Margate.
13 `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 10th week (UK Record Retailer chart). End of performances at the
Winter Gardens, Margate. A contest is run on this
day's issue of teen magazine `Boyfriend'. Prize: a lunch with the Beatles and attendance
to a Beatles recording session. `Boyfriend' first publishes photograph fom its Euston Road
session.
14 Concert at the ABC, Blackpool
15 Paul is fined 17 pounds for
driving his car at a speed in excess of a legal limit. It is his second conviction this
year.
16
BBC Paris Studios, London.
3.00-5.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' (8th edition): `Pop Goes The
Beatles'; `I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You)'; `Crying, Waiting, Hoping';
`Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!'; `To Know Her Is To love Her'; `The Honeymoon Song'; `Twist
And Shout'; `Pop Goes The Beatles'. The only BBC recording of all these songs, except
`Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!' and `Twist And Shout'. BBC Paris Studio, London.
6.00-8.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' (9th edition): `Pop Goes The
Beatles'; `Long Tall Sally'; `Please Please Me'; `She Loves You'; `You Really Got A Hold
On Me'; `I'll Get You'; `I Got A Woman'; `Pop Goes The Beatles'. BBC Paris Studio, London.
8.45-10.50pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles' (10th edition): `Pop Goes The
Beatles'; `She Loves You'; 'Words Of Love'; `Glad All Over'; `I Just Don't Understand';
`Devil In Her Heart'; `Slow Down'; `Pop Goes The Beatles'. `She Loves You' is the same
version recorded earlier today (6.00-8.30pm session). Only take of `I Just Don't
Understand', and only BBC take of `Slow Down'. 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Goes
The Beatles' broadcast (2 July 1963 session, except `3 Cool Cats', `Sweet Little Sixteen'
and `Ask Me Why').
17
The Playhouse Theatre,
London. 8.45-9.45pm. Recording for BBC's `Easy Beat': `I Saw Her Standing There'; `A Shot
Of Rythm And Blues'; `There's A Place'; `Twist And Shout'. Only live take of `A Shot Of
Rythm And Blues'. `Please Please Me' LP, 17th
week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
18 Studio 2. 7.00-10.45pm.
Recording: `You Really Got A Hold On Me' (takes 1-11); `Money (That's What I Want)' (takes
1-7); `Devil In Her Heart' (takes 1-6); `Till There Was You' (takes 1-3). Producer: George
Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard langham. First session for `With The
Beatles' LP.
19
Concert at the Ritz in Rhyl.
20
Concert at the Ritz in Rhyl. `Please Please Me' LP number
1 (UK Record Retailer chart).
21 10.31-11.30pm. BBC's `Easy
Beat' broadcast (recorded 17 July 1963). Concert at the Queen's
Theatre, Blackpool.
22 US LP release: `Introducing
The Beatles'. Beatles' English tour begins,
with Gerry and the Pacemakers and Tommy Quickly, at Weston-Super-Mare, Odeon Cinema. Tommy
Quickly's debut on stage. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann present.
23 Second concert at the Odeon
Cinema , Weston-Super-Mare. 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go
The Beatles' (6th edition) broadcast (recorded 10 July 1963, 10.30am-1.30pm).
24 Third concert at the Odeon
Cinema , Weston-Super-Mare. Epstein signs a contract for
the Beatles to perform at the Olympia Theatre, Paris, in January 1964.
25
Fourth concert at the Odeon
Cinema , Weston-Super-Mare.
26 Fifth concert at the Odeon
Cinema , Weston-Super-Mare. The ‘Twist And
Shout’ EP the first ever EP to enter the NME Top Ten.
27 `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 12th week (UK Record Retailer chart). Famous photographic session
with Dezo Hoffmann in and around Weston-super-Mare, with the Beatles in Victiroan bathing
costumes and racing in go-karts. End of English tour with
Gerry and the Pacemakers and Tommy Quickly, at the Odeon Cinema, Weston-Super-Mare.
28 Concert at the ABC, Great
Yarmouth.
29 4pm. Washington Hotel,
London. 32 photographs taken by `Radio Times' photographer Don Smith in a bedroom. Later,
photo session with Marc Sharratt on the hotel roof, and individual photos (order: George,
Ringo, John, Paul).
30 Studio 2. 10.00am-1.30pm.
Recording: `Please Mister Postman' (takes 1-9); `It Won't Be Long' (takes 1-10). Producer:
George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham. 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go
The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 10 July 1963, 1.30-3.30pm). Interview with Phil Tate for
‘Non Stop Pop’ The Playhouse Theatre,
London. Much earlier than 5.30-6.30pm, the contracted time. Recording for BBC's `Saturday
Club': `Long Tall Sally'; `She Loves You'; `Glad All Over'; `Twist And Shout'; `You Really
Got A Hold On Me'; `I'll Get You'. Studio 2. 5.00-11.00pm.
Recording: `Money (That's What I Want)' (piano test, plus takes 8-14); `Till There Was
You' [re-make] (takes 4-8); `Roll Over Beethoven' (takes 1-8); `It Won't Be Long' (takes
11-23); `All My Loving' (takes 1-14). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd
Engineer: Richard Langham. UK single release: `Tip Of My
Tongue', Tommy Quickly's debut. 
1
The Playhouse Theatre,
Manchester. 1.30-4.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles';
`Ooh! My Soul'; `Don't Ever Change'; `Twist And Shout'; `She Loves You'; `Anna (Go To
Him)'; `A Shot Of Rythm And Blues'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. The Playhouse Theatre,
Manchester. 4.00-6.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles';
`From Me To You'; `I'll Get You'; `Money (That's What I Want)'; `There's A Place'; `Honey
Don't'; `Roll Over Beethoven'; `Lucille'; `Baby It's You'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. 1st issue of `The Beatles
Monthly Book', published by Sean O'Mahony.
2 It is reported that the
Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, have sold, in the
UK only, over 2.5 million records in 6 months. Concert at the Grafton Rooms,
Liverpool. Provisional timings: 7.30-8.30. Chick Graham and the Coasters. 8.30-9.30. Sonny
Webb and the Cascades. 9.30-10.00. The Beatles. 10.00-11.00. The Undertakers. 11.00-11.30.
The Beatles. 11.30-12.30. The Dennisons.
3 Last ever performance at the
Cavern, with the Mersey Beats, The Escorts, The Road Runners, The Sapphires, and Johnny
Ringo & The Colts. Last Beatles performance at the Cavern Club. `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 13th week (UK `Record Retailer' chart).
Studio 2. 7.00-10.00pm.
Recording: `I Wanna Be Your Man' (takes 14-15); `Little Child' (takes 19-21). Producer:
George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: unknown.
4 Concert at the Queens
Theatre, Blackpool.
5 Performance on the `A Twist
And Shout Dance' Festival, at the Abbotsfield Park, Urmston, Manchester, with Brian Poole
and the Tremeloes, the Dennisons, and Johnny Martin and the Tremors. 11.30am. Opening of
the Festival.
6 The Beatles fly from
Liverpool to the Channel Islands for five days of concerts starting this day at the St
Helier Springfield Ballroom, Jersey. 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go
The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 16 July 1963, 3.00-5.00pm). NEMS Enterprises, Brian and a
staff of 3 move to new premises in Liverpool, at 24 Moonfields.
7
`Please Please Me' LP, 20th
week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). Concert at the St Helier
Springfield Ballroom, Jersey.
8 Concert at the Audotorium,
Candie Gardens, St Peter Port, Guernsey.
9 Concert at the Springfield
Ballroom, Jersey
10 Concert at the Springfield
Ballroom, Jersey `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 14th week (UK `Record Retailer' chart).
11
Concerts at the ABC Theatre
in Blackpool. Mal Evans becomes assistant
road manager to Neil Aspinall.
12 Performance at the Odeon
Cinema, Llandudno.
13 Performance at the Odeon
Cinema, Llandudno. Sales of the ‘Twist And
Shout’ EP pass 250,000 copies. A new record!
14 Early evening recording of
‘Scene at 6:30’ for Granada TV in Manchester. Evening concert at the ABC in
Blackpool.
15 Concert at the Odeon in
Llandudno.
16 Concert at the Odeon in
Llandudno.
17 Concert at the Odeon in
Llandudno.
18 Afternoon recording for
‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’. Concert at the Princess
Theatre in Torquay.
19 Appearance at the Gaumont
Cinema in Bournemouth. In between the two concerts the Beatles attend Billy J.
Kramer’s 20th birthday party in their dressing room.
20 Concert at the Gaumont Cinema
in Bournemouth.
21 Studio 3 (control room only)
Time:10.00am-10.00pm , 2.00-5.30pm Editing: 'Money (That's What I Want)'(of takes 6 and
7), ' You Really Got A Hold On Me' (of takes 7, 10 and 11), 'Roll Over Beethoven' (of
takes 7 and 8), 'It Won't Be Long' (of takes 17 and 21). Momo mixing: 'Devil In Her Heart'
(of take 6), 'Money (That's What I Want)' (from edit of takes 6 and 7), 'You Really Got A
Hold On Me' (from edit of takes 7, 10 and 11), 'Please Mr. Postman' (from take 9), 'Till
There Was You' (from take 8), 'Roll Over Beethoven' (from edit of takes 7 and 8), 'All My
Loving' (from take 14), 'It Won't Be Long' (from edit of takes 17 and 21). Producer:
George Martin, Engineer: Norman Smith 2Engineer: Geoff Emerick
Evening concert at the
Gaumont Cinema in Bournemouth.
22 Concert at the Gaumont Cinema
in Bournemouth.
23 Appearance at the Gaumont
Cinema in Bournemouth. UK release of the
‘She Loves You/ I’ll Get You’ single. In an interview Ringo reveals
that he has written a song called ‘Don’t Pass Me By’.
24 Concert at the Gaumont Cinema
in Bournemouth.
25 Concert at the ABC Theatre in
Blackpool.
26 Concert at the Odeon Cinema
in Southport. Paul is disqualified from
driving for one year and fined 31 pounds for speeding in Wallasey.
27 Recording for BBC television
documentary ‘The Mersey Sound’ at the Little Theatre in Southport. Concert at the Odeon Cinema
in Southport.
28 Recording the interview
sequences for ‘The Mersey Sound’ in Manchester television studios. Concert at the Odeon Cinema
in Southport.
29 Concert at the Odeon Cinema
in Southport.
30 Concert at the Odeon Cinema
in Southport.
31 Concert at the Odeon Cinema
in Southport. 
1 ABC's Studio One, Didsbury
Studio Centre, Manchester. Performance taped for ABC's `Big Night Out'.
3 `She Loves You' reaches over
500,000 sold issues in the UK. 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go
The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 1 August 1963, 4.00-6.00pm; completely broadcast, except
`Lucille' and `Baby It's You'.) Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian
Hall. 2.00-4.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `Too
Much Monkey Business'; `Love Me Do'; `She Loves You'; `I'll Get You'; `A Taste Of Honey';
`The Hippy Hippy Shake'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian
Hall. 5.00-7.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles';
`Chains'; `You Really Got A Hold On Me'; `Misery'; `Lucille'; `From Me To You'; `Boys';
`Pop Go The Beatles'. Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian
Hall. 8.00-10.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `She
Loves You'; `Ask Me Why'; `Devil In Her Heart'; `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Sure To Fall
(In Love With You)'; `Twist And Shout'; `Pop Go The Beatles'. `She Loves You' is the same
version recorded earlier this day (3 September 1963 2.00-4.30pm session). Last performance
for `Pop Go The Beatles'. Concert at the Queen's
Theatre, Blackpool.
4 Concert at the Gaumont,
Worcester. `She Loves You' number 1, 1st
week in the ranking (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 24th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
5 Concert at the Gaumont,
Taunton.
6 UK EP release: `The Beatles'
Hits'. Concert at the Odeon, Luton. `The Beatles Christmas Show'
is announced.
7
Concert at the Fairfield
Halls, Croydon, Surrey. Broadcast of ABC-TV's `Big
Night Out', with performance recorded 1 September 1963. The Playhouse Theatre,
London. 1.00-4.00pm. Recording for the fifth birthday edition of BBC's `Saturday
Club': `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Memphis, Tennessee'; `Happy Birthday Saturday Club';
`I'll Get You'; `She Loves You'; `Lucille'. Recording for the 5th anniversary edition of
`Saturday Club'. `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 18th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
8 Concert at the ABC Theatre,
Blackpool.
10 Savoy Hotel. Luncheon hosted
by the Variety Club Of Great Britain. The Beatles are awarded `Best Vocal Disc Of The
Year' (`From Me To You'), as voted by readers of `Melody Maker'. After the luncheon, the
Beatles, Billy J. Kramer and Susan Maughan pose for photographers in Victoria Embankment
Gardens, behind the Savoy. Early afternoon. John and Paul go by taxi from the Savoy Hotel
to their apartment (57 Green Street). While riding down Jermyn Street, they see Andrew
Oldham, who invites them to see the Rolling Stones. Afternoon. the rolling Stones rehearse
at the Ken Colyer Club. John, Paul and Andrew Oldham attend. John and Paul offer `I Wanna
Be Your Man' to them. The `Daily Mirror' publishes
the first long interview with the Beatles. 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go
The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 3 September 1963, 2.00-4.30pm).
11 Studio 2. 2.30-6.00pm.
Recording: `I Wanna Be Your Man' (take 1); `Little Child' (takes 1-2); `All I've Got To
Do' (takes 1-15). Studio 2. 7.00-10.15pm. Recording: `Not A Second Time' (takes 1-9);
`Don't Bother Me' (takes 1-7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd
Engineer: Richard Langham. `She Loves You' number 1, 2nd
week (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 25th week in the Top 10 (UK
New Musical Express chart).
12 Studio 2. 2.30-6.30pm.
Recording: Messages To Australia (takes 1-4); `Hold Me Tight' [re-make] (takes 20-29).
Studio 2. 7.00-11.30pm. Recording: `Don't Bother Me' [re-make] (takes 10-19); `Little
Child' (takes 3-18); `I Wanna Be Your Man' (takes 2-7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer:
Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Richard Langham. ‘She Loves You’
begins the first of two spells as number one, this time for four weeks.
13 Concert at the Public Hall,
Preston. After the show Paul travels
to the Imperial Ballroom, Nelson to judge a beauty contest.
14 The Beatles are interviewed
by the press at NEMS’s office in Moorfields, Liverpool. Marriage of Clive John
Epstein and Barbara Mattison, at the Greenbank Drive Synagogue, Liverpool. Brian is best
man. Concert at the Memorial Hall,
Northwich. `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 19th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
15 Concert at the Royal Albert
Hall, London, topping the bill for `Great Pop Prom'.
16 US single release: `She Loves
You'/`I'll Get You'. Start of Beatles' vacations.
John and Cynthia fly to Paris. George and his brother Peter fly to the US to visit their
sister Lousie. Paul and Ringo fly to Greece.
17 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go
The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 3 September 1963 5.00-7.30pm).
18 Epstein affirms he has no
intention of selling, after rumors that he has received bids for the agency side of NEMS
Enterprises. `She Loves You' number 1, 3rd
week (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 26th week in the Top 10 (UK
New Musical Express chart).
21 Please Please Me' LP number
1, 20th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
24 5.00-5.29pm. BBC's `Pop Go
The Beatles' broadcast (recorded 3 September 1963 8.00-10.00pm).
25
`She Loves You' number 1, 4th
and last week (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 27th week in the Top
10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
27
It is reported that Brian
plans to move NEMS Enterprises from Liverpool to London, early in 1964.
28 `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 21st week (UK Record Retailer chart).
30 Studio 2 (control room only).
10.00am-1.15pm. Editing: `Little Child' (of takes 15, 18); `Hold Me Tight' (of takes 26,
29). Recording: `Money (That's What I Want)' (3 unnumbered takes of overdub onto take 7);
`I Wanna Be Your Man' (takes 8-13, of overdub onto take 7). Mono mixing: `All I've Got To
Do' (from take 15); `Don't Bother Me' (from take 15); `Little Child' (from edit of takes
15, 18); `Hold Me Tight' (from edit of takes 26, 29); `Not A Second Time' (from take 9).
Producer: George Martin; Editing: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick. Recording of
piano for `Money (That's What I Want)' and Hammond organ for `I Wanna Be Your Man'. A review indicates that the
Beatles have the most sold LP (`Please Please Me'), EP (`Twist And Shout') and single
(`She Loves You') in Britain (Record Retailer). 
1 Brian writes to the `Glasgow
Record and Mail', making clear that the first two hits of Gerry and the Pacemakers were
not written by Lennon and McCartney, but by Mitch Murray.
2 Three Beatles return to
England. George is still in the US. `She Loves You', 5th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 28th week in the Top 10
(UK New Musical Express chart).
3 George Harrison returns to
England early morning. Studio 2. Time: 7-10pm.
Recording: 'I Wanna Be Your Man' (takes 14/15), 'Little Child' (takes 19-21). Producer:
G.Martin Engineer: N. Smith 2nd Engineer: unknown
Ringo attends the Everly
Brothers / Bo Diddley / Rolling Stones concert at the Odeon Cinema in Southend-on-Sea.
4 Television House, London.
Performance for Associated-Rediffusion's `Ready, Steady, Go!', transmitted live.
5 Mini tour of Scotland starts
with concert at the Concert Hall, Glasgow. A guitar is stolen from their
car, but soon recovered. `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 22nd week (UK Record Retailer chart). 10.00-12.00am. BBC's
`Saturday Club' broadcast (recorded 7 September 1963).
6 Concert at the Carlton
Theatre, Kirkcaldy.
7 Date proposed by Brian to
Alistair Taylor to have lunch together. Concert at the Caird Hall,
Dundee. End of mini tour.
8 The Beatles go to Ronnie
Scott’s club in London to srr Roland Kirk in a midnight to dawn show.
9 BBC Paris Studio, London.
10.00-11.00pm. Recording for BBC's `The Ken Dodd Show': `She Loves You'. `She Loves You', 6th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 29th week in the Top 10
(UK New Musical Express chart). Broadcast of `The Mersey
Sound' television BBC documentary. It also includes images and an interview with Brian.
11 Concert at the Trentham
Gardens, Trentham.
12 Rehearsals for the next-night
London Palladium TV Performance in NEMS’s offices in London.
13 Evening: Performance on
BBC-TV's `Sunday Night at the London Palladium'. Beatlemania is born… Party for family and friends
in Room 704 of the Grosvernor House Hotel.
14 Travelling to Liverpool by
train. Photographs of the London
Palladium performance are published on the front pages of every London newspaper.
15 Concert at the Floral,
Southport. It si announced that the
Beatles will be in the 1963 Royal Variety Show. 57 Green Street, London.
4.30pm. Session with `The Beatles Book' photographer Leslie Bryce. 2 shots, in the
staircase.
16 The Playhouse Theatre,
London. 9.00-10.00pm. Recording for BBC's `Easy Beat': `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Love
Me Do'; `Please Please Me'; `From Me To You'; `She Loves You'. Last BBC performance of
`Love Me Do' and `Please Please Me'. `She Loves You', 7th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 30th week in the Top 10
(UK New Musical Express chart).
17 Lunch with the winners
(Karen, Anne, Vicky, Susan) of competition in the teen magazine `Boyfriend' at the
restaurant Old Vienna. Studio 2. 2.30-5.30pm,
7.00-10.00pm. Recording: `The Beatles' Christmas Record' (unnumbered takes); `You Really
Got A Hold On Me' (take 12); `I Want To Hold Your Hand' (takes 1-17); `This Boy' (takes
1-17). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick. First
Christmas record. First session for `I Want To Hold Your Hand'/`This Boy'. First 4-track
Beatles recording.
18 Surprise appearance on
Granada TV’s ‘Scene at 6:30’.
19 Concert at the Pavilion
Gardens Ballroom, Buxton. `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 24th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
20 10.31-11.30pm. BBC's `Easy
Beat' broadcast (recorded 16 October 1963). Recording of performance for
ABC-TV's `Thank Your Lucky Stars' in Birmingham.
21 Studio 1 (control room only).
10.00am-1.00pm. Mono mixing: `I Want To Hold Your Hand' (from take 17); `This Boy'
(remixes 1, 2, from take 15). Editing: `This Boy' (of mono remixes 1, 2). Stereo mixing:
`I Want To Hold Your Hand' (remix 1, from take 17). Producer: George Martin; Engineer:
Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: not assigned. End of sessions for `I Want To Hold Your
Hand'/`This Boy'.
23 Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm.
Recording: `I Wanna Be Your Man' (take 16). Mono mixing: `I Wanna Be Your Man' (from take
16); `Little Child' (from edit of takes 15, 18); `Hold Me Tight' (from edit of takes 26,
29). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: unknown. In the afternoon the Beatles
fly to Sweden to start their first ever foreign tour. Brian is interviewed for the
new Southern TV programme `For Art's Sake'. After the programme Brian flies to Sweden to
join the group's tour. `She Loves You', 8th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 31st week in the Top 10
(UK New Musical Express chart).
24 Recording session for Swedish
radio programme ‘Pop ‘63’ before a live audience.
25
Two concerts at the
Karlstadt, Stockholm.
26 `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 25th week (UK Record Retailer chart). Two concerts at the Kungliga
Tennishallen, Stockholm. Broadcast of ABC-TV's `Thank
Your Lucky Stars', with a performance recorded 20 October 1963, in Birmingham. Brian's first appearance on
`Juke Box Jury', with Jimmy Henney and Barbara Young. After the show, Brian has dinner
with Lionel Bart.
27 Two concerts at the Circus,
Goteborg.
28 Brian returns from Sweden to
the UK. Signing records at the Wadele
record shop in Boras. Concert at the Borashallen in
Boras.
29 Concert at the Sporthallen
in Eskilstuna. End of first European tour. The ‘Meet The
Beatles’ booklet is published. Epstein accepts the
production of the first Beatle film. Studio 3. 10.00am-1.00pm.
Stereo mixing: `It Won't Be Long' (from edit of takes 17, 21); `All I've Got To Do' (from
take 15); `All My Loving' (from take 14); `Don't Bother Me' (from take 15); `Little Child'
(from take 21); `Till There Was You' (from take 8); `Please Please Me' (from take 9);
`Roll Over Beethoven' (from edit of takes 7, 8); `Hold Me Tight' (from edit of takes 26,
29); `You Really Got A Hold On Me' (from edit of takes 7, 10, 11); `I Wanna Be Your Man'
(from take 16); `Devil In Her Heart' (from take 6); `Not A Second Time' (from take 9);
`Money (That's What I Want)' (from edit of takes 6, 7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer:
Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Geoff Emerick and B. T. [Full name unknown.]
30 Recording for the Swedish TV
programme `Drop In'. Studio 3 (control room only).
2.30-5.30pm. Stereo mixing: `Money (That's What I Want)' (from take 7). Producer: George
Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: A. B. Lincoln. End of work on `With The
Beatles'. `She Loves You', 9th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 32nd week in the Top 10
(UK New Musical Express chart).
31
Heathrow Airport, London. The
Beatles return to England from Sweden. When they arrive, they coincide at the airport with
the Prime Minister, Miss Universe and Ed Sullivan. In the evening George in
heavy disguise attends the show starring the Everly Brothers, the Rolling Stones, Bo
Diddley and Little Richard at the Odeon in Lewisham.
1 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. 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.
2 `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 26th week (UK Record Retailer chart). Concert at the City Hall,
Sheffield . The `Daily Express' says that
the mass hysteria over the Beatles only serves to fill empty heads.
3 Concerts at the Odeon, Leeds
. 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).
4 `With The Beatles' LP is cut
at Abbey Road. Appearance on the `Royal
Command (Variety) Performance', at the Prince Of Wales Theatre, London. Brian and Dezo
Hoffmann attend. John Lennon makes his famous remark about ‘rattle your
jewelry’. BBC-TV films the concert. After, the Beatles retire to the bar of the
Mapleton Hotel, 39 Coventry Street, London.
5 Concert at the Adelphi,
Slough . Before the show the Beatles jams for 50 policemen. `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.
6 Concert at the ABC,
Northampton . 8.00-8.30pm. BBC's `The Ken
Dodd Show' broadcast (recorded 9 October 1963). `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).
7 Concert at the Adelphi,
Dublin .
8 Concert at the Ritz, Belfast
. Before the concert the
Beatles tape an interview and a song for BBC Ulster’s ‘Six O’Clock’
programme. ‘Ready, Steady,
Go!’ broadcats a repeat of the Beatles’ 4 October performance.
9 Back to London. George signs
a five-year music publishing contract with Northern Songs Ltd. Two performances at the
Granada, East Ham, London . George Martin attends. The Beatles attend a party at
the washing-machine tycoon John Bloom's house, 60 Park Lane, Mayfair, London. `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 27th week (UK Record Retailer chart).
10 Concert at the Hippodrome,
Birmingham . The Beatles disguise themselves as policemen. Julian Lennon is christened
at a church in Hoylake, Cheshire in John’s absance. Broadcast of `Royal Command
(Variety) Performance', BBC-TV (recorded 4 November).
11 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. US single release: `I'll Keep
You Satisfied', with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
12 Concert at the Guild Hall,
Portsmouth . Postponed because of Paul being sick. The Beatles stay the night at
a hotel in Southsea.
13 Paul's got a gastric flu
virus. Hour after hour, bullettins report his condition. Concert at the ABC Cinema,
Plymouth . Re-broadcasting of `The
Mersey Sound', BBC-TV documentary. `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).
14
Concert at the ABC, Exeter .
15 Concert at the Colston Hall,
Bristol . The Beatles stay overnight in Bath.
US release: `Hello Little
Girl', with the Fourmost. UK release: `I'm In Love', with the Fourmost.
16 Evening. Concert at the
Winter Gardens, Bournemouth . Filmed by three different US TV crew. `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 28th week (UK Record Retailer chart). Clark’s Grammar School
is the first to send boys home for sporting Beatles’ haircuts.
17 Concert at the Coventry
Theatre, Coventry . Life Magazine’s
photo-reporting team takes pictures of the Beatles.
18 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. Sir Josepgh Lockwood makes an
error during his presentation speech so John Lennon retorts ‘You are fired!’. Newspapers publish that a
priest of the Church of England asks the Beatles to record a Christmas song. On a press report, Brian asks
the fans not to throw things to the stage during the tour in progress.
19
Concert at the Gaumont,
Wolverhampton .
20 Concert at the Ardwick
Apollo, Manchester . Filmed by ABC-TV. `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). 3000 copies of ‘With The
Beatles’ are stolen from a van outside a Reading record store.
21 Concert at the ABC, Carlisle
. The Beatles are mentioned in
the Parliament for the first tiem, when an MP questions the financial cost of police
protection for them.
22 UK LP release: `With The
Beatles'. `With The Beatles' has
already sold 300,000 copies in advance. Concert at the Globe,
Stockton . Top music newspapers carry
details of the Beatles’ planned US trip next February.
23 `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 29th week (UK Record Retailer chart). Concert at the City Hall,
Newcastle . US TV broadcasts the
Bournemouth Winters Garden concert (filmed 16 November). ‘All I Want For
Christmas Is A Beatle’ by Dora Bryan is released.
24 Concert at the ABC, Hull .
26 Concert at the Regal Cinema,
Cambridge .
27 Appearance in Granada
TV’s ‘Scene at 6:30’ with Ken Dodd. Concert at the Rialto, York .
`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). `She Loves You' has sold over
1,000,000 copies in the UK. ‘With The Beatles’
already sold 500, 000 copies.
28 Concert at the ABC, Lincoln .
Sales of ‘I Want To Hold
Your Hand’ top the million mark the day before release.
29
Concert at the ABC,
Huddersfield . UK single release: `I Want To
Hold Your Hand'/`This Boy'. `I Want To Hold Your Hand'
has sold 950 000 copies in advance: a new mark and gold record.
30
Concert at the Empire,
Sunderland . `Please Please Me' LP number
1, 30th and last week (UK Record Retailer chart). 
1 Concert at the De Montfort
Hall, Leicester .
2 The contract for the 1964
Australia tour is signed. Studio C, ATV studios,
Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. Recording for ATV's `The Morecambe and Wise Show'. Brian
Epstein, Brian Sommerville and Dezo Hoffmann attend. Live performance, performance of `On
Moonlight Bay' with Morecambe and Wise, and sketch. Evening: Performance at the Grosvenor
House Hotel, London, for the Stars Organization for Spastics. Last cabaret performance.
Brian attends.
3 Concert at the Guild Hall,
Portsmouth (postponed 12 November). Appearance on Southern
TV’s ‘Day By Day’.
4 The Beatles Film Productions
Ltd is formed. Ringo flies to Liverpool to see his family. `She Loves You', 14th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 37th week in the Top 10
(UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 2nd week (UK New Musical
Express chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 1st week (UK New Musical Express
chart).
5 John, Paul and George fly to
Liverpool to meet family.
6 The members of the Beatles
Fans Club receive the first Christmas record. In NME the Beatles hold 5
positions on the Top 20 chart.
7 Recording the ‘Juke Box
Jury’ programme at the Empire in Liverpool. `With The Beatles' number 1,
1st week (UK Record Retailer chart). Concert at the Empire,
Liverpool filmed for BBC's `It's The Beatles' Northern Fan Club Convention. Concert at the Odeon in
Liverpool.
8 Concerts at the Odeon,
Lewisham. The New York Times reports
about the Beatles as part of their Sunday section.
9
Concert at the Odeon,
Southend-on-Sea . A BBC television team films
and interviews the Beatles in their dressing room.
10 Concert at the Gaumont,
Doncaster .
11 Concert at the Futurist,
Scarborough . `She Loves You', 15th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 38th week in the Top 10
(UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 3rd week (UK New Musical
Express chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 2nd week (UK New Musical Express
chart).
12 Concert at the Odeon,
Nottingham.
13 Concert at the Southampton,
Gaumont. End of `The Beatles Autumn Tour'. The Beatles have singles
number 1 and 2; EPs number 1, 2 and 3; and LPs number 1 and 2 (UK Record Retailer chart). The club `Ad Lib' opens at 7
Leicester Place, London. Capitol Records finally
agrees to release the Beatles in the US.
14 `With The Beatles' number 1,
2nd week (UK Record Retailer chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1 (UK Record
Retailer chart [?]). Southern Area Fan Club
Convention, Wimbledon Palais, Wimbledon, London. Afternoon. Beatles greeting each fan
attending, at the bar. Evening. Concert. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann present. First time
crowd barriers are used for a Beatles concert.
15 Recording of another
all-Mersey ‘Thank You Lucky Stars’ programme. The boys are late for their
rehearsal. Two more gold discs are presented to them during the show.
17
The Playhouse Theatre,
London. 3.00-6.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Saturday Club': `All I Want For Christmas'; `All
My Loving'; `This Boy'; `I Want To Hold Your Hand'; `Till There Was You'; `Roll Over
Beethoven'; `She Loves You'; `Crimble Medley'. Christmas special edition.
18
BBC Paris Studio, London.
7.00-10.30pm. Recording for BBC's `From Us To You' (1st edition): `From Us To You'; `She
Loves You'; `All My Loving'; `Roll Over Beethoven'; `Till There Was You'; `Boys'; `Money
(That's What I Want)'; `I Saw Her Standing There'; `Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport'; `I Want
To Hold Your Hand'; `From Us To You'. `She Loves You', 16th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 39th week in the Top 10
(UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 4th week (UK New Musical
Express chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 3rd week (UK New Musical Express
chart).
20 Singing ‘This Boy’
on Granada TV’s ‘Scene at 6:30’
21 `With The Beatles' number 1,
3rd week (UK Record Retailer chart). First `Christmas Show', at
the Gaumont, Bradford, with various artists managed by Brian. 10.00-12.00am. BBC's
`Saturday Club' broadcast (recorded 17 December 1963).
22 First `Christmas Show', at
the Empire, Liverpool, with various artists managed by Brian. Pathé News’ film
‘The Beatles Come To Town’ is shown in cinemas across Britain.
23 Radio Luxembourg's `It's The
Beatles' series begins.
24 Start of the daily `Beatles
Christmas Shows', at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London, with Billy J. Kramer with
the Dakotas, Tommy Quickly, Cilla Black, and the Fourmost, plus the Barron Knights with
the Duke D'Mond, and Rolf Harris as compère. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann attends. After
the show, Brian hires a night flight to take most of the bill to Liverpool for Christmas. Start of Christmas pantomime
`Babes In the Wood', with Gerry and the Pacemakers, at the Gaumont, Hanley.
25 The flight hired by Brian
takes the Christmas Show bill back from Liverpool, in time for this day's performance.
`Beatles Christmas Show' at the Astoria, Finsbury Park, London. `She Loves You', 17th week in
the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Please Please Me' LP, 40th week in the Top 10
(UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles' number 1, 5th week (UK New Musical
Express chart). `I Want To Hold Your Hand' number 1, 4th week (UK New Musical Express
chart).
26 US single release: `I Want To
Hold Your Hand'/`I Saw Her Standing There'. `Beatles Christmas Show', at
the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London. 10.00-12.00am. 1st BBC's
`From Us To You' broadcast (recorded 18 December 1963).
27 London `Times' critics award
Lennon and McCartney as the best composers of the year. `Beatles Christmas Show', at
the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London. UK single release: `Love Of
The Loved', with Cilla Black.
28 `With The Beatles' number 1,
4th week (UK Record Retailer chart). `Beatles Christmas Show', at
the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park, London. `New Yorker' publishes a
Brian Epstein interview. 1st serious article about the Beatles or Brian in the US. BBC Saturday Club includes a
record request FROM the Beatles, for the Miracles’ ‘I’ve Been Good To
You’.
29 12.50am. New York WMCA
broadcasts `I Want To Hold Your Hand' for the first time in the USA. The `Sunday Times' critic
Richard Buckle praises the Beatles as the greatest composers since Beethoven.
30 `Beatles Christmas Show', at
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