270 - September 26

September 26

1962
Noon: Performance at the Cavern.

Evening: Performance at the Cavern, with The Spiderman and The Dominoes.

1963

"She Loves You" number 1, 3rd week (UK Record Retailer).

1964

A Hard Day's Night number 1, 13th week (UK Record Retailer).


A Hard Day's Night number 1, 10th week (US Billboard).

"A Hard Day's Night" number 1, 9th week (Hitkrant Europarade).

"I Should Have Known Better"/"If I Fell" number 1, 4th week (Australia Kent Music Report).

1967
Studio 2. 7:00pm-4:15am. Recording: "The Fool On The Hill" (tape reduction take 4 into take 5, overdub onto take 5, tape reduction take 5 into take 6, overdub onto take 6). Producer: not assigned; Engineer: Ken Scott; 2nd Engineer: Richard Lush.

1968
Studio 2 (control room only). 7:00pm-1:30am. Mono mixing: "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" (remixes 3-12, from take 65); "What's The New Mary Jane" (remixes 1, 2, from take 4); "Glass Onion" (remixes 1, 2, from take 33); "I Will" (remixes 1, 2, from take 68). Recording: "Glass Onion" (one unnumbered take of sound effects). Producer: Chris Thomas; Engineer: Ken Scott; 2nd Engineer: Mike Sheady.

Recording of sound effects, never used, for "Glass Onion".

1969

UK album release: Abbey Road (Apple PCS 7088).
Germany LP release: Abbey Road (Apple 1C 062-04 243).

1970
At Abbey Road Studios, recording sessions begin for John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band LP.

"Something" covered by Shirley Bassey number 27 (Dutch Top 40).

1974

US album release: Walls And Bridges (Apple SW 3416).

1977

US album release: Ringo The 4th (Atlantic SD 19108).

1980
At the Record Plant East studios in New York, mixing for "(Just Like) Starting Over" and "Kiss Kiss Kiss".

In the UK, BBC Radio One airs a profile on John on the Paul Gambaccini series "Appreciation".

George flies from London's Heathrow Airport en route to Montreal, Canada.

1982
Ringo and Barbara leave Heathrow Airport and fly to Sydney, Australia.

In the UK, John is the spotlight on the BBC Radio One program "Appreciation".

1984
The "Art Of The Beatles" Exhibition, portraying 30 years of the group in the form of cartoons, paintings, photographs, album covers, lithographs and sculptures, continues.

1987
The "Beatle City" exhibition runs at the West End marketplace in Dallas, Texas.

In Atlanta, Georgia, Ringo is present for the grand opening of his London Brasserie restaurant. He joins in for an inpromptu jam session with Isaac Hayes, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jermaine Jackson and others.

1988
At the NFT (National Film Theatre) in London, a celebration honoring Handmade Films. All of Handmade films are shown from "Monty Python's Meaning Of Life" to the current release, "Track 29".

In the US, CBS TV program "Good Day New York" begins a three-day feature on the release of the film "John Lennon: Imagine".

1989
Paul's concert at the Drammenshalle in Dramen, Norway (Warm-up for "Get Back" tour).

In the UK, Channel 4 broadcasts, for the first time in Britain, the 1980 MPL concert film "Rockshow".

1994
At Abbey Road Studios in London, a celebration takes place for the 25th anniversary of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.

1998

At the 12th Century parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Sussex, Paul attends the wedding of his daughter Mary to TV producer Alistair Donald. Stella and Heather are Mary's bridesmaids.

2013
In Los Angeles, the exhibition "The Early Beatles Collection," featuring images taken by Astrid Kirchherr, runs at the Leica Gallery. Images include pictures taken during the filming of "A Hard Day's Night" in 1964 for Stern Magazine, as well as some of the images she took of the musicians during their Hamburg, Germany, period in 1960.

The exhibit Linda McCartney retrospective is displayed at the Kunst Haus Wien in Vienna, Austria. The new exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective of Linda McCartney’s work featuring 190 of her iconic photographs.

Yoko's Half-A-Wind Show - A Retrospective is displayed at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, located north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It shows a major retrospective of well over a hundred works. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to orient ourselves broadly in Yoko’s multifaceted artistic universe, pinpointing central themes of her career and demonstrating the diversity of media and disciplines with which she works.