| 2-6 |
January |
The Beatles travel around Scotland for their first concert
tour |
| 11 |
January |
Second single Please Please Me/ Ask Me Why
released in the UK (21 February in Australia/ 25 February in the US) |
| 19 |
January |
The Beatles make their national TV debut on 'Thank Your
Lucky Stars' playing Please Please Me |
| 22 |
January |
BBC Radio Saturday Club debut, following recordings have
been released: Keep Your Hands Off My Baby, Beautiful Dreamer |
| 2 |
February |
Begin first proper package tour of Britain supporting
Helen Shapiro |
| 2 |
February |
First London newspaper coverage appears in the 'Evening
Standard', a general feature by Maureen Cleave - who also brought us the We
are bigger than Jesus quote years later |
| 11 |
February |
Record ten new tracks for their first album
Please Please Me in under ten hours:
There's A Place, I Saw Her Standing There, A Taste Of Honey, Do You Want To Know A Secret, Misery, Anna (Go him To Him),
Boys, Chains, Baby It's You, Twist And Shout |
| 19 |
February |
Please Please Me
single tops both the 'New Musical Express' and 'Disc' magazine charts, although
it only reaches No. 2 on the BBC chart |
| 5 |
March |
EMI Studios, record:
From Me To You, Thank You Girl, One After 909 |
| 22 |
March |
First LP Please Please Me
released in the UK and top the British charts (1 October in Australia) |
| 4 |
April |
BBC Paris Theatre, London record: I'll Be On My Way |
| 5 |
April |
Receive their first silver disc for selling 250,000 copies
of Please Please Me single |
| 8 |
April |
John and Cynthia have a son, John Charles Julian |
| 11 |
April |
Third single From Me To You/ Thank You Girl
released in the UK (9 May in Australia/ 27 May in the US). It is to be the first of eleven
consecutive singles to top the British charts through to 1966 |
| 18 |
April |
Paul meets young actress Jane Asher after a BBC radio
concert broadcast from the Royal Albert Hall |
| 1 |
June |
BBC Paris Theater, London and record Young Blood, Sure To Fall (In Love With You), Baby It's You, I Got To Find My Baby, Happy Birthday |
| 19 |
June |
Playhouse Theatre, London recorded: Some Other Guy, Thank You Girl |
| 21 |
June |
'Beatle in Braw' headline appears in the Daily Mirror
reporting that John got drunk and beat up Cavern DJ Bob Wooler at Paul's 21st
Birthday party in Liverpool on 18 April |
| 26 |
June |
Perform at Majestic Ballroom Newcastle. Paul writes
She Loves You
in the Newcastle-Upon-Tyne hotel room after the show |
| 1 |
July |
EMI Studios, record:
She Loves You |
| 2 |
July |
EMI Studios, record:
I'll Get You |
| 2 |
July |
Maida Vale Studios, London, record: That's All Right (Mama), Carol, Soldier Of Love, Clarabella, Lend Me Your Comb |
| 10 |
July |
Pop Go The Beatles radio show, record: A Taste Of Honey, Memphis, Tennessee, Sweet Little Sixteen, Lonesome Tears In My Eyes,
Nothin' Shakin', The Hippy Hippy Shake, Matchbox, Love Me Do |
| 16 |
July |
Pop Go The Beatles radio show, record: I Got A Woman, I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You), Crying, Waiting, Hoping,
To Know Her Is To Love Her, Long Tall Sally, The Honeymoon Song, Glad All Over, Kansas City / Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!, Slow Down,
Words Of Love |
| 18 |
July |
EMI Studios, record:
You Really Got A Hold On Me, Money (That's What I Want), Devil In Her Heart, Till There Was You |
| 22 |
July |
LP
Introducing The Beatles is released in the US. It is re-released in the US
on 27 January 1964 |
| 22 |
July |
Billy J. Kramer with The Dakota record I'll Keep You Satisfied
which was written by Paul McCartney and produce by George Martin and
released as a single in the UK on November 1, 1963 and in the US on November 11,
1963. |
| 26 |
July |
Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas release
Bad To Me which was written by John Lennon |
| 30 |
July |
EMI Studios, record:
Please Mister Post Man, It Won't Be Long, Roll Over Beethoven, All My Loving, You Really Got A Hold On Me |
| 1 |
August |
Publication of the first issue of The Beatles Book,
a monthly magazine about the group |
| 1 |
August |
Pop Go The Beatles radio show, record:
A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues, Ooh! My Soul, Don't Ever Change, Honey Don't |
| 3 |
August |
The Beatles play at the Cavern club for the last time |
| 13 |
August |
EP Twist And Shout
sells 250, 000 copies and becomes the first of its genre to qualify for silver
status |
| 23 |
August |
Single
She Loves You/
I'll Get You released in the UK (29 August in Australia/ 16 September in the US) |
| 3 |
September |
Pop Go The Beatles radio show, record:
Too Much Monkey Business |
| 7 |
September |
Saturday Club radio show, record: Lucille |
| 11 |
September |
EMI Studios, record:
I Wanna Be Your Man, Little Child, All I've Got To Do, Not A Second Time, Don't Bother Me |
| 12 |
September |
EMI Studios, record:
Hold Me Tight |
| 15 |
September |
The Beatles share the bill with the Rolling Stones at the
annual Great Pop Prom at the Royal Albert Hall |
| 5 |
October |
Three-day tour of Scotland begins at the Concert Hall,
Glasgow |
| 13 |
October |
Live performance on the network TV show Val Parnell's
Sunday Night at the London Palladium causes a sensation across Britain |
| 16 |
October |
EMI Studios, record:
I Saw Her Standing There |
| 17 |
October |
EMI Studios, record:
I Want To Hold Your Hand, This Boy
also found on Free As A Bird CD Single: This Boy |
| 23 |
October |
Fly to Sweden for their first proper foreign concert tour |
| 31 |
October |
Thousands of fans gather at London Airport to greet the
Beatles on their return from Sweden |
| 1 |
November |
First night of The Beatles Autumn Tour of Britain, in
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
| 1 |
November |
EP The Beatles (No 1)
is released in the UK (19 March 1964 in Australia) |
| 2 |
November |
The Daily Mirror coins the term 'Beatlemania' when
reviewing the Cheltenham show |
| 4 |
November |
Appear at the Royal Variety Performance, where John
asks the audience to rattle their jewellery |
| 6 |
November |
Footage filmed by Granada Television at the Cavern Club in
1962 is finally shown on Scene At 6:30 |
| 9 |
November |
George signs a five-year music publishing contract with
Northern Songs |
| 9 |
November |
After their show in East Ham, go to party in London given
by Millionaire John Bloom |
| 15 |
November |
The Formost release
I'm In Love an
early Lennon - McCartney composition |
| 16 |
November |
Clark's Grammar School in Guildford, Surrey becomes the
first school to send boys home for sporting a Beatles haircut |
| 22 |
November |
LP With The Beatles is
released in the UK (19 March 1964 in Australia) |
| 29 |
November |
Single
I Want To Hold Your Hand/ This Boy
released in the UK (12 December in Australia). In the US the B side is
I Saw Her Standing There
which was released on 26 December |
| 17 |
December |
Saturday Night Club radio show: All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle, Crimble Medley |
| 24 |
December |
The Beatles Christmas Show begins at the Astoria
Cinema, Finsbury Park, London (later to be re-named Rainbow Theatre). It runs for 16 nights.
The show is compared by Rolf Harris, others on the bill were: Cilla Black, The
Fourmost and Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas |
- Bootleg info in orange text