Today in Beatles History
July 10
1963
`Please Please Me' LP, 16th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian Hall. 10.30am-1.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `Sweet Little Sixteen'; `A Taste Of Honey'; `Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves On The Trees)'; `Love Me Do'; `Lonesome Tears In My Eyes'; `So How Come (No One Loves Me)'; `Pop Go The Beatles'.
Number 2 Studio, BBC Aeolian Hall. 1.30-3.30pm. Recording for BBC's `Pop Go The Beatles': `Pop Go The Beatles'; `Memphis, Tennessee'; `Do You Want To Know A Secret'; `Till There Was You'; `Matchbox'; `Please Mister Postman'; `The Hippy Hippy Shake'; `Pop Go The Beatles'.
Concert at the Winter Gardens, Margate, with Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas.
1964
UK LP release: `A Hard Day's Night'. UK single release: `A Hard Day's Night'/`Things We Said Today'.
UK LP release: `Off The Beatles Track'.
Evening: Liverpool premiere of `A Hard Day's Night' at the Odeon Cinema. The Beatles and Brian attend.
1968
Art exhibition sponsored by John: `You Are Here'.
Studio 3. 7.00pm-1.30am. Recording: `Revolution' (takes 1-10, tape reduction take 10 into takes 11-13, overdub onto take 13, tape reduction take 13 into takes 14, 15). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Richard Lush.
1969
Studio 2. 2.30-11.30pm. Recording: `Maxwell's Silver Hammer' (overdub onto take 21). Stereo mixing: `Maxwell's Silver Hammer' (remixes 1-13, from take 21). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: John Kurlander.
1970
Louise French's body is cremated.
1994
George attends the UK Grand Prix in Silverstone.
1995
Westwood One radio broadcasts `Oobu Joobu' Part 9.