** The following events in Beatles history all took place on November 7. **
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[B] Beatles * [J] John * [P] Paul * [G] George * [R] Ringo * [O] Other
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[B] 1957
The Quarry Men perform at Wilson Hall, Garston, Liverpool.
[B] 1960
The Beatles perform at the Kaiserkeller Club, Grosse Freiheit,
Hamburg, West Germany.
[B] 1961
The Beatles perform a lunchtime show at the Cavern Club, Liverpool.
That night they perform at the Merseyside Civil Service Club,
Liverpool, after which they return to the Cavern Club for a night
appearance.
[B] 1962
The Beatles perform at the Star-Club, Hamburg, West Germany.
[B] 1963
The Beatles hop over to Ireland during their British tour to make
their only two appearances in Eire. They are interviewed upon
their arrival at the airport in Dublin, the interview being
broadcast that evening on the RTE television news program "In
Town". With The Beatles is screenwriter Alun Owen, who has been
appointed to write the screenplay for The Beatles' first (as yet
untitled) motion picture. Owen spends three days with The Beatles
observing their hectic, chaotic lifestyle. That night, The Beatles
perform two shows at the Adelphi Cinema, Dublin, Eire.
[B] 1964
The Beatles, on a tour of Britain, perform two shows at the Capitol
Cinema in Cardiff.
[J] 1966
John Lennon returns to England, from Spain, following the
completion of filming for "How I Won the War", directed by Richard
Lester. Two nights later he will meet Yoko Ono for the first time.
[B] 1967
The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio One, EMI Studios,
London). Final mixing of "Blue Jay Way" and "Flying". Paul
McCartney adds vocal and sound effects overdubs to both the mono
and stereo mixes of "Magical Mystery Tour". This marks the
completion of "Magical Mystery Tour". But The Beatles have only
six songs--too few for an album and too many for an EP. The
Beatles and EMI resolve the situation by deciding to issue a
double-EP, with a gatefold sleeve and a 28-page booklet. This will
be released in the UK on December 8, 1967. Capitol Records,
however, doesn't think the double-EP format would be acceptable for
the US market, so they decide to put out an album instead. The six
"Magical Mystery Tour" songs will go on side one and five of the
six songs from The Beatles' 1967 singles will go on side two ("I Am
the Walrus", the sixth song from their singles, appears on side one
of the album as a "Magical Mystery Tour" film track). Whereas the
"Magical Mystery Tour" film will be a major failure for The
Beatles, the vinyl releases (the UK double-EP and the US album)
will be major successes. The "Magical Mystery Tour" album will not
be issued in the UK until November 1976; the double-EP UK format
will never be issued in the US.
[J] 1969
UK release of John Lennon/Yoko Ono LP "Wedding Album" (Apple).
Tracks: "John and Yoko", and "Amsterdam", which includes "John,
John (Let's Hope for Peace)", "Bed Peace", "Good Night", and
"Goodbye Amsterdam Goodbye".
[J] 1996
Yoko Ono opens an exhibit of John Lennon lithographs and
seriagraphs at a shopping mall in California, the Promenade Mall in
Woodland Hills. Hand-signed artworks are available for purchase,
all from limited editions of 325. Prices range from $200 to
$12,000 (for lithographs from the 1969 "Bag One" collection).
Praising her dead husband's work, Yoko says "I'm an artist myself,
and I know I can't do what he does". When asked if she really
thinks a shopping mall is a suitable location for such an exhibit,
Yoko replies that John created his art for the people, and that his
work is already hanging in the Museum of Modern Art. She points
out that more people go to shopping malls than visit art galleries.
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