Archive for July, 2016
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July 31, 1966
31 Jul 2016On the same day that the compilation Yesterday and Today began a five-week run at the top of the U.S.…
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July 30, 1966
30 Jul 2016The issue of the British music paper Melody Maker published today announced, “Beatles Single Surprise! — ‘Eleanor Rigby’ out on…
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July 29, 1966
29 Jul 2016The Beatles Bible says it well: Setting off a chain of events that would culminate in public bonfires of The…
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July 28, 1966
28 Jul 2016I can’t tell you what The Beatles were doing today, but I can tell you that the Rolling Stones were…
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July 21, 1966
21 Jul 2016So was today a lucky or unlucky day? The date was 7/21, and those are good lucky numbers, but the year…
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Mid-July 1966
15 Jul 2016This was a quiet period for The Beatles, with Revolver in the can but not yet released, and the beginning…
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July 12, 1966
12 Jul 2016So, Internet, what did The Beatles do today? The Beatles were given three prestigious Ivor Novello awards on this day…
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July 8 Follow-Up
10 Jul 2016After a longer interval than I care to think about, this week all my books were finally liberated from cardboard-box…
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July 8, 1966
08 Jul 2016Today The Beatles returned to England after their sojourns in Germany, Japan, the Philippines, and India. They were probably eager…
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July 7, 1966
07 Jul 2016Today’s Beatles activities are covered about as well as they can be, both text and image-wise, in The Beatles Bible.…