Archive for August, 2017
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August 28–31, 1967
29 Aug 2017“In the days immediately following Brian [Epstein]’s death,” according to Bob Spitz’s The Beatles, “There was a big power grab,”…
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August 27, 1967
27 Aug 2017Sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning, Brian Epstein drew his last breath. According to The Beatles Bible, An inquest…
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August 26, 1967
26 Aug 2017Today’s entry in The Beatles Bible is headlined “The Beatles Renounce the Use of Drugs” — by which it means,…
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August 25, 1967
25 Aug 2017It’s kind of adorable how, even at this late date, The Beatles still did everything together. Today all four and…
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August 24, 1967
24 Aug 2017So on the one hand we have The Beatles: rich, famous, restless, curious. They’ve been doing too much acid and…
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August 23, 1967
23 Aug 2017Recording of “Your Mother Should Know” continued today at Chappell Studios. This session is notable in Beatles history as the…
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August 22, 1967
22 Aug 2017The good news is that, almost two months after their last session, The Beatles were finally back in the studio…
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August 19, 1967
19 Aug 2017Today (1967 time) Ringo’s wife Maureen Starkey gave birth to their second son, whom they named Jason. I guess that…
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August 17, 1967
17 Aug 2017This slideshow I found on YouTube purports to be “Ringo Starr photos at his home in Weybridge – August 17,…
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Mid-August 1967
16 Aug 2017This photo of Ringo Starr, his son Zak, and his very pregnant wife Maureen is labeled simply “mid-August 1967”; so…