** The following events in Beatles history all took place on September 19. **
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[B] Beatles * [J] John * [P] Paul * [G] George * [R] Ringo * [O] Other
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[B] 1934
Brian Epstein, The Beatles' manager, is born.
[B] 1959
The Quarry Men perform at the Casbah Coffee Club, West Derby,
Liverpool.
[B] 1960
The Beatles perform at the Indra Club, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg,
West Germany.
[B] 1961
The Beatles perform at the Cavern Club - a lunchtime show.
[B] 1962
The Beatles perform at the Cavern Club at night.
[B] 1967
The Beatles, who had neglected to book a stage at Shepperton Film
Studios in advance, are unable to find any sound stage for the
completion of filming for "Magical Mystery Tour". They book West
Malling Air Station, Maidstone, Kent, to serve as their filming
location. This site was used by the United States Army Air Force
during World War II as a base for American warplanes. The base
features 32 concrete blast walls that were built to protect the
American planes from enemy bomb blasts. The Beatles will film here
for six days, staying in a nearby hotel at night. Interior scenes
are shot in an enormous, empty hangar: the "Magician's Laboratory",
the "Aunt Jessie's Dream" sequence (where a grinning John Lennon
heaps piles of spaghetti onto the table while Buster Bloodvessel
attempts to console the distraught Jessie), George's "Blue Jay Way"
sequence (where he 'plays' a chalked keyboard), and the "Your
Mother Should Know" ballroom finale. The one interior sequence
shot elsewhere on the site was the "Army Recruiting Office" bit,
which stars Paul as Major McCartney and Victor Spinetti (who'd been
in both "A Hard Day's Night" and "HELP!") as the Recruiting
Sergeant. Exterior scenes shot over the six days of filming
include the fabulous "I Am the Walrus" sequence.
[B] 1968
A promotional video of The Beatles performing "Revolution" is
broadcast on UK television, on the BBC1 program "Top of the Pops".
[B] 1968
The Beatles in the recording studio (Studios Two/One, EMI Studios,
London). Recording "Piggies". The Beatles move from Studio Two to
Studio One to take advantage of a harpsichord that had been set up
for a classical music recording session the following morning.
George Harrison asks Chris Thomas to play the harpsichord, since
Thomas had studied at the Royal Academy of Music, and Thomas does
so. During the session, George plays for Thomas a new song of his,
"Something". Originally George intended to offer the song to
Jackie Lomax, but he instead ended up giving Joe Cocker first use
of it (and helped Cocker to record it). However, The Beatles' own
version of "Something", recorded after Cocker's recording of it,
would be released two months ahead of Cocker's much-delayed record.
[P] 1976
Wings performs a concert in Vienna, Austria.
[J] 1988
US release of John Lennon single "Jealous Guy/Give Peace a Chance".
The A-side had not been previously released on a single. Tie-in
to the film/LP "Imagine: John Lennon".
[J] 1996
The handwritten lyrics to John Lennon's song "Being For the Benefit
of Mr. Kite" are sold at Sotheby's auction in London for 66,400
pounds ($103,500). Written in 1967 by Lennon, the lyrics (copied
from a 19th century circus poster) go for more than twice the
pre-auction estimate. The sale exceeds the 1993 auction price of
45,400 pounds ($70,000) paid for Lennon's lyrics to "I Am the
Walrus". The record paid for handwritten Beatle lyrics is the
161,000 pounds ($250,000) paid for Paul McCartney's "Getting
Better". Lennon's handwritten lyrics to "With a Little Help From
My Friends", under the working title "Bad Finger Boogie", had been
expected to bring in 80,000 pounds ($124,000), but the owner
withdrew the item before the auction began. Those lyrics show the
song's second line originally being "Would you throw a tomato at
me", that line being scratched out and "Would you stand up and walk
out on me" being substituted. A pair of Lennon's granny glasses
are also sold at auction, for 6,325 pounds ($9,800). Surprisingly,
a 35-second home movie of The Beatles performing on Valentine's Day
in 1961, at the Cassanova Club, was purchased at auction for a mere
15,000 pounds ($22,000), far less than the pre-auction estimate of
70,000 pounds ($105,000). The soundless film, in color, is the
earliest known film of The Beatles, showing them performing in
black leather outfits. John was 20, Paul was 18, and George, 17.
The film had recently been discovered by the son of the Beatles fan
who shot the film.
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